CommercialAirbus and Dassault Systèmes Sign Five-Year Pact to Change Airbus Manufacturing Airbus has signed a five-year memorandum of agreement with Dassault Systèmes (3DS) to overhaul the engineering and manufacture of Airbus aircraft across the entire company, civil and military. Under the agreement, Airbus…
Business & GABoeing Backs Aerion's Supersonic AS2 BizJet Boeing is investing in and partnering with civil supersonics company Aerion, whose AS2 business jet is expected to be the first to market with a slated 2023 first flight and 2026 service…
MilitaryElbit Subsidiary Gets Contract for RC-26B Avionics Refresh Support Systems Associates, Inc. (SSAI) has awarded Elbit Systems of America a $5-to-$22 million sub-contract for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) avionics on the U.S. Air National Guard's RC-26B fleet. Work will be performed…
Embedded AvionicsGarmin's GPS 3000 Gets Certified in Europe Garmin's new wide-area/satellite-based augmentation system (WAAS/SBAS) GPS, the GPS 3000, has been certified in Europe. Meeting ADS-B Out requirements and capable of five position updates per second, the remote-mount GPS 3000 is…
MilitaryHow Airbus, Boeing are Helping Aviation Engineering Startups in India By 2025, India is expected to surpass the U.K. as the world’s third largest market for commercial airline operations. The South Asian nation’s passenger traffic is projected to surge to 278 million…
RegulationWill EASA Create a New Category for eVTOL Certification? The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is considering adding a "special condition" category to deal with the certification of electric and hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, but the proposal may…
MilitaryMercury Systems Acquires GECO Avionics Mercury Systems has completed its $36.5 million acquisition of GECO Avionics. Headquartered at a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, GECO was first established in 1995. Mercury wants to use the acquisition…
MilitaryHow VITA Standards are Speeding Up Avionics Cots Adoption Avionics design engineers no longer have to rely on proprietary specifications, which typically lag behind commercial market technology development at both the system and component level. New developments