CommercialPerspectives: MILS and Validated Value The Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) project, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and cofunded by the F-22 and F-35 program offices, is paving the way toward independently…
Business & GAQ&A: James Tuttle: Counter-MANPADS Moves Forward The threat from shoulder-launched, heat-seeking missiles is real: thirty-eight attacks have been attributed to these man-portable air defense systems, or MANPADS, over the past several decades. In 2002 terrorists fired two missiles…
Business & GASafety: Water and Electrons: Never a Good Mix Water seeping into the electronics and equipment (E&E) bay--causing terminal contactors to short out--has led to seven nearly identical electrical fires aboard Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets, six of them within the past…
ATM ModernizationPerspectives: Avionics Cooperation In the inaugural Perspectives column, published in the January 2003 issue of Avionics Magazine, Roger Goldberg, executive secretary of the AMC (Avionics Maintenance Conference), wrote: "There are times to be competitive and…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Dennis Beringer, Kevin Williams: FAA's Human Factors Scientists The Human Factors Research division of FAA's Office of Aerospace Medicine, home to a small group of scientists that research and analyze new technologies and human factors, is located within the agency's…
ATM ModernizationSafety: Illusory Tricks and Overruns The takeoff overrun and resulting aircraft damage that occurred in an April 9, 2004, accident in Johannesburg, South Africa, might be described as "two pilots determined to succeed but prepared to concede."…
ATM ModernizationScan Netherlands CH-47F Upgrade The Netherlands Ministry of Defense has chosen Honeywell's avionics control and management system (ACMS) for a fleet of new and existing Boeing CH-47F Chinooks. Boeing has granted Honeywell approval…
ATM ModernizationProduct Focus: Taking the Pulse of Domestic RVSM Introduced by FAA in January 2005, domestic reduced vertical separation minimum (DRVSM) added six flight levels (FLs) to the high-altitude structure of the National Airspace System (NAS): FL 300, 320, 340, 360,…