ATM ModernizationPerspectives: The Aviation Industry and Transmitting PEDs Cell phones, wireless networks, two-way pagers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other transmitting portable electronic devices (T-PEDs) are growing rapidly in popularity. These devices all emit radio frequency signals, thus the generic…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Bill Strauss: Academic Look at Interference Electromagnetic interference (EMI) from portable electronic devices (PEDs) is a growing concern, given the omnipresence of cell phones. RTCA's Special Committee 202 (SC-202) is addressing the issue in preparation for technology being…
ATM ModernizationSafety: An Emergency and No Guidance The EasyJet B737-300 crew was nonplussed but coped well with myriad electrical failures that prompted them to divert from their planned flight from Nice, France, to Luton, UK, landing instead at Lyons,…
ATM ModernizationScan Electronic Flight Bag Virgin Atlantic Airways has picked Chicago-based navAero's t?BagC22 Class 2 electronic flight bag (EFB) as part of a project to equip its fleet of Airbus A340s and Boeing 747s.…
ATM ModernizationSecuring ACARS: Data Link in the Post-9/11 Environment At A Glance: ACARS message security is under scrutiny in the post-9/11 environment. This story covers: Airline efforts to develop a standard approach to ACARS security; and The parallel push from the…
ATM ModernizationPeople New Appointments Northrop Grumman has promoted Imad Bitar to vice president of its Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory (ESL). The Los Angeles-based company also has elected retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers to…
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…
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