ATM Modernization

Securing 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 Modernization

People

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…

Commercial

Perspectives: 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 & GA

Q&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 & GA

Safety: 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 Modernization

Scan

Flight Simulators Minneapolis-based Aerosim Technologies has started production of an Airbus A319/A320 flight management system trainer (FMST), virtual flight deck (VFD) and virtual procedure trainer (VPT) for an undisclosed U.S. airline. The…

ATM Modernization

Setting a Course: Beyond GPS

At A Glance: This article surveys non-U.S. satellite-based navigation systems being developed or modified--Europe's Galileo, Japan's JRANS and QZSS, and Russia's GLONASS--as well as GPS. Satellite navigation, once felt to be an…

ATM Modernization

Broadband to the Bizjet Cabin

At A Glance: High-speed connectivity is a priority for executives. We describe broadband advances by ARINC, Rockwell Collins and Inmarsat, plus cell phone support by Honeywell and Inmarsat. Connectivity is a priority…