ConnectivitySpace-Based ADS-B: Going Live in the North Atlantic Airspace On February 7, 2019, Aireon took full control over the final six ADS-B payloads from Iridium for its space-based ADS-B surveillance system. Effectively, this marks a redesign of traditional ground-based ADS-B
MilitaryPortuguese Air Force Brings Flight2 Architecture to C-130 Cockpits The Portuguese Air Force is upgrading its C-130 Hercules fleet with new cockpit displays, flight management systems and an open systems embedded avionics architecture. Under a new contract issued to Collins…
CommercialBritish Airways Buys Boeing 777-9 Haul Worth up to $18.6 Billion Boeing will sell a minimum of 18 777-9 jets to British Airways in a deal with options that could have a value of $18.6 billion by list prices. The deal is with…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop to Develop Open-Architecture Embedded GPS for USAF The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $59 million contract to develop an embedded GPS system for the F-22 Raptor and other aircraft. The embedded GPS/INS-modernization (EGI-M) program will be…
CommercialEmbedded World 2019: CoreAVI Unveils New AMD E9171 Vulkan Platform Core Avionics & Industrial Inc. (CoreAVI) unveiled its new Automated Micro Devices (AMD) Radeon E9171-based safety certifiable Vulkan-based graphics and compute driver at Embedded World 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany. The new driver…
MilitaryGA-ASI MQ-9B SkyGuardian Demos Satcom, Laptop-Controlled Mission General Atomics' MQ-9B SkyGuardian completed a demonstration sortie without the use of an on-site ground control station (GCS) this month, relying on only satcom and the company's expeditionary command-and-control (XC2) portable laptop. One…
Military'Team Reaper Australia' Takes Shape as GA-ASI Names 10 MQ-9 Partners General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has named 10 partner companies that will comprise Team Reaper Australia, which will furnish the country's military with either MQ-9A or MQ-9B large UAS. Australia named GA-ASI as…
CommercialNTSB Investigating Deadly Crash of Amazon Cargo Flight, Atlas Air 3591 Atlas Air Flight 3591 crashed into a bay outside Anahuac, Texas Saturday, killing all three people on board. The National Transportation Safety Administration's "go team" is on site collecting evidence as part…