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
ConnectivityMore ADS-B Please! Quite a lot, it turns out. Many airlines still have yet to equip their full fleet of aircraft to comply with the European and U.S. 2020 deadlines. The percentage of U.S. registered…
Editor's NoteEuropean Operators, Regulators Working on New ADS-B Implementation Plan Nearly 1,000 aircraft operating in European airspace are at risk of not being equipped with ADS-B Out avionics by the time the region’s airspace equipage mandate becomes effective next year. The European
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…