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New Products

Management Systems Universal Avionics Systems, Tucson, Ariz., introduced WAAS-enabled Flight Management Systems (FMS). Universal said the FMSs, known as the UNS-1Lw, UNS-1Ew, UNS-1Espw, and UNS-1Fw, will be used on business/regional jets and…

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Perspectives: Support Avionics Training Program

The advancement of our national resource of properly educated and qualified aircraft and avionics technicians is imperative to our economic and military future. The National Center for Aircraft Technician Training (NCATT) in…

Commercial

Singapore Airlines to Use Rockwell Collins Satcom

Singapore Airlines will use Rockwell Collins’ SAT-2100 satellite communication system with a single HST-2110 high-speed data transceiver for 58 Boeing 777 aircraft, the companies said Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under…

Military

Honeywell Wins Air Force Pact

Honeywell won an $8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to overhaul and modernize its F-15 Avionics Intermediate Shop (AIS) Antenna Test Station (ATS) and Enhancement Aircraft Radar Test Station (EARTS).…

Commercial

Editor’s Note: Europe United

My favorite textbook from college, "A Diplomatic History of the American People," is interspersed with political cartoons from our combative past that variously depicted Europeans as pompous, petulant, fractious and quarrelsome. Today,…

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Industry Scan

CEO ‘Frustrated’ With NextGen Transition Below are excerpts of a speech given by Clayton M. Jones, chairman and CEO of Rockwell Collins, at a RTCA symposium March 14 in Washington, D.C. When…

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People

Teri G. Marconi Northrop Grumman named Teri G. Marconi vice president of the combat avionics business unit for its Electronic Systems sector. Marconi will have executive responsibility for the company’s combat avionics…

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Calendar

May 21-24 Regional Airline Association (RAA) Annual Convention, Memphis Marriott Downtown, Memphis, Tenn. Contact RAA, phone 202-367-1170 or visit www.raa.org. 21-24 World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) Conference and Educational Workshops, Zurich Marriott,…