Business & GA

Miniature Air Vehicles

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that can be contained in a backpack or even in the palm of your hand promise to deliver new intelligence-gathering and surveillance capabilities from the platoon level down…

Commercial

Managing Change In FMS

New types of aircraft operating procedures and concepts are influencing the development of flight management systems (FMS). As those technology-driven procedures evolve, avionics and airframe manufacturers say they are improving their products…

ATM Modernization

Special Report: Securing Intellectual Property

Intellectual property (IP) is as important to avionics as avionics is to an aircraft. Properly securing, maintaining and policing intellectual property rights will help maximize a company’s ability to attract investment, protect…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Aircraft Switches

Control of an in-flight aircraft is predicated on the pilot’s ability to alter critical aircraft components and/or conditions to safely carry out the flight plan. Switches are one way designers have traditionally…

ATM Modernization

Europe Tackles SSR Code Crunch

Eurocontrol has launched the Centralized SSR Code Assignment and Management System (CCAMS) implementation project to deal with current and future shortages of secondary surveillance radar (SSR) codes used by air traffic control.…

Commercial

Teledyne Supplies Flight-Data Units

Teledyne Controls said it signed an agreement with aircraft leasing company CIT Aerospace to become the standard supplier of Digital Flight Data Acquisition Units (DFDAUs) for its new Boeing aircraft deliveries. Teledyne’s…

Military

UK Orders Targeting Pod

Lockheed Martin received a contract from the U.K. Ministry of Defense to supply the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) system for the Harrier GR9 aircraft. The Sniper ATP permits pilots to detect…

Military

BAE Names Military Avionics Manager

BAE Systems named Clark Freise vice president and general manager of its defense avionics business area, based in Johnson City, N.Y. Freise previously served as deputy general manager of Information Dominance Systems…