CommercialCover Story: RNP on Approach Considered by some as the ultimate breakthrough allowing the transition from ground-based to aircraft-based navigation, Required Navigation Performance (RNP) has enjoyed a rather slow, decade-long evolution. But recent developments in the United…
CommercialCommercial: Engine Prognostics From sensors to software, enhanced elements in turbine engine health monitoring and management systems (EHMS) are well worth their Krugerrand weight for providing faster, more detailed engine lifetime prediction. In the "time…
MilitaryMilitary: Legacy Systems, New Life Advances in targeting pods and the flexibility of fighter aircraft to do more than drop bombs have given the U.S. military a unique capability to gather and disseminate real-time data on everything…
CommercialBlakey Sets ADS-B Contract Date FAA will award the contract for the ground infrastructure of Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) contract by Aug. 30, Administrator Marion Blakey said last week at the Experimental Aviation Association show in Oskosh,…
MilitaryITT Wins Air Force Contract ITT Corp.’s Advanced Engineering and Sciences Division won a $19.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide sensor research under the Electro-Optical Sensor Technology and Evaluation Research (ESTER) program. According…
MilitaryRaytheon Awarded Navy Pact Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems won a $9.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture spares for the MH-60R helicopter multispectral targeting system. Work will be performed in McKinney, Tex., and…
CommercialSensis Deploys ASDE-X System in Louisville Sensis Corp., East Syracuse, N.Y., said its Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X system (ASDE-X) at Louisville (Ky.) International Airport is operational. The ASDE-X system uses a combination of surface movement radar,…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Tests Networking System Northrop Grumman said it successfully integrated and tested its Joint Capability for Airborne Networking (JCAN) system for aeronautical and land vehicle applications. JCAN middleware provides a mobile, Internet Protocol-based airborne network infrastructure…
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