Military

Test 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 Modernization

ATC 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 Modernization

Industry 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…

Commercial

Test 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 & GA

Wanted: 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…

Military

AV-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 Modernization

Editor'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…

Commercial

Electronic Flight Bags –– Part II

Like an alignment of the planets, events and activities surrounding the development of electronic flight bags (EFBs) have been coming together to form what would appear to be a large new market…