ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Boeing Nabs JTRS A Boeing team won an $857-million U.S. Army contract to develop the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), a software-based communications system that will form the basis for all future…
MilitaryTest Standardization and Interoperability In an effort to decrease the cost and increase the efficiency of automatic test systems (ATS), the military services are pushing for a greater level of standardization, not just within one service…
ATM ModernizationATC Simulation: USAF Takes a Giant Step The Training Systems Product Group at the Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in early April awarded an about $72-million order for approximately 94 control tower simulators. The contract for the Tower…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan The X-45A unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstration aircraft completed its first flight in late May at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, Calif. The 14-minute flight reached an airspeed…
CommercialTest Cards for the Airbus 380 As the Airbus 380 program moves forward, a specialist avionics data bus supplier enjoys a lead in producing test cards for the super jumbo’s real-time version of the 10/100-megabit/sec (Mbit/sec) switched Ethernet…
Business & GAWanted: Small Package, Big Performance It’s a matter of wanting it all. Aircraft operators seek antennas that perform multiple functions with improved performance, yet are smaller and less obtrusive on the airframe. Antenna manufacturers appear to be…
MilitaryAV-8B: Open Systems Pioneer Six years ago the Naval Air Systems Command (NavAir) started a program to replace the mission and stores management computers on the AV-8B combat VSTOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) aircraft with a…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Tomorrow's Navaid Mix What a difference a Volpe National Transportation Systems Center study makes. When this U.S. government organization submitted its study of GPS vulnerabilities to the Department of Transportation (DoT) in early September 2001–followed…