Business & GABroadband Rolls Out The overall adoption of high-speed, or broadband, Internet service is growing. According to a Pew study, 42 percent of Americans had broadband at home in March 2006, up 40 percent from the…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Lighting Technology New approaches in cockpit lighting design and technology are benefiting both pilots and designers. From a design perspective, computer aided design (CAD) software is helping cockpit lighting come into its own, yielding…
Editor's NoteNew Products Charge Converter PCB Piezotronics, Depew, N.Y., introduced its 495B10 differential remote charge converter. Differential sensors and signal conditioning electronics are used in flight test applications due to their common mode noise rejection.…
Editor's NotePerspectives: Implement, Deploy CNS Technologies What key enabling technologies are critical to facilitating growth in the National Airspace System (NAS)? I believe the needed communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) technologies have been identified. These are Automatic Dependent…
Editor's NoteEditor's Note: Software Security I've been talking to software engineers a lot lately, and what they’re talking a lot about is software security. With the progression to network-centric operations underway in the U.S. military, and with…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Airspace Anxiety The timing was coincidental, but the warnings were similarly dire. A British government report issued in late October predicted catastrophic consequences for the world economy if global warming continues its course, absent…
ATM ModernizationScan Lockheed Unveils ADS-B Team Systems integrator Lockheed Martin threw its hat into the ring for FAA’s coming requirement for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), unveiling a multidisciplinary team that includes Sensis Corp., Harris…
Editor's NotePeople Emily Feliz Emily Feliz joined Avionics magazine, Rockville, Md., as managing editor. She will be responsible for overseeing the design and production of the magazine as well as assisting in the editing…