Military

Small Business Nabs E-2C Hawkeye Pact

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) said it won a $600,000 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the Naval Air Systems (NAVAIR) Command to research upgrades to the Navy’s E-2C Hawkeye. RTI,…

Military

Honeywell Wins Air Force Contracts

Honeywell’s Defense and Space Electronic Systems won a $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for 74 embedded Global Positioning/Inertial Production Units on CH-47F, MH-47, H-1W and HH-60J helicopters and F/A-18,…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: AMC’s Jury of Peers

I have two shot glasses, courtesy of Honeywell, dating from my previous trips to the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) — Phoenix in 1996 and Anchorage in 1997. After a sojourn of nearly…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

AMC Delegates Hear Appeal, Finish Agenda After grinding through 20 discussion topics on its opening day, the 58th annual Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) picked up speed and completed all 233 items presented…

Business & GA

LearJet Display Retrofit Certified

Universal Avionics Systems Corp., Tucson, Ariz., received an FAA supplemental type certification for its EFI-890R Navigation Display retrofit of a Learjet Model 25D by Stevens Aviation. The LR25 has also been equipped…

Military

UAV Adapts To Battle Damage

Athena Technologies, Warrenton, Va., completed a successful flight demonstration of damage tolerant flight control and autonomous landing capabilities on a subscale F/A-18 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…

Commercial

RNP Approach in Tibet

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-700 completed a flight into Linzhi airport in the mountainous region of Tibet using a Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approach, Boeing said this week. This flight demonstrates…

ATM Modernization

General Dynamics to Provide Radios to FAA

The FAA ordered $10 million of additional CM-300 Ultra-high Frequency (UHF) radios and equipment from General Dynamics C4 Systems to upgrade communication capabilities between air traffic controllers and military aircraft. The FAA…