ATM ModernizationRaytheon Enabling Urban Air Traffic with Skyler Radar Companies including Amazon, Uber and UPS are relying on the assumption that in the near future they will be able to safely fly aircraft through densely populated cities. Whether ferrying people or…
MilitaryLockheed Lowering F-35 Simulator Costs Through 3-D Printing Lockheed Martin is using 3-D printing, or additive manufacturing, technology to lower the cost of manufacturing F-35 flight simulators by an estimated $11 million over the next five years. Using new…
MilitaryNewly Minted Collins Aerospace to Upgrade B-1 Trainers Collins Aerospace, formerly Rockwell Collins, will update B-1 Lancer training systems for Aero Simulation Inc. (ASI), which last month received a contract for B-1 training system sustainment from the U.S. Air Force…
CommercialUTC Completes Acquisition of Rockwell Collins United Technologies (UTC) has received final regulatory approval to buy Rockwell Collins in one of the largest acquisitions in the history of the aerospace manufacturing industry. Under the new acquisition, Rockwell…
MilitaryF-35 Training Subsystems to be Produced by Cubic, Leonardo Leonardo DRS and Cubic Global Defense will deliver more than 500 P5 combat training system (P5CTS) internal subsystems for use in F-35s beginning with lot 12. More than 500 systems have been…
MilitaryDARPA Wants BAE Machine Learning Software To Pick Out Enemy Signals Among Many BAE Systems is developing machine learning algorithms aimed at deciphering radio-frequency signals for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under a contract worth up to $9.2 million. Part of DARPA's…
UnmannedUS Homeland Security Plans to Test Counter-Drone Systems in 2019 With new legislation opening the door for testing, evaluating and eventually deploying systems to mitigate threats from unmanned aircraft systems that can be purchased commercially, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans…
MilitaryRussia Completes Testing of Su-57 Avionics ‘Complex’ The communications, navigation and surveillance systems featured on the Su-57 are described by its developers as an integrated avionics “complex” featuring a network centric architecture with a unique approach to embedded…