Embedded AvionicsAireon ALERT To Aid Search-and-Rescue Efforts with Free Space-Based ADS-B Tracking The pre-registration period opened Wednesday for the Aireon ALERT program, a free service offered jointly by Aireon and the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) aimed at helping to track aircraft in emergency situations.…
UnmannedTrump Nominee for DHS Undersecretary Advocates Anti-Drone Bill Legislation in the Senate permitting the use of technology to defeat potential threats from drones is necessary to enable the testing and evaluation of these technologies in operationally relevant environments, a Department…
MilitaryLeonardo CTO Talks Tempest: Vision for Future Fighter's Advanced Avionics U.K. Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson unveiled a concept model for a sixth-generation fighter jet at the 2018 Farnborough International Air Show. Called the Tempest, it is intended to eventually replace the Royal…
MilitaryGA Gets $134M Deal For Advanced Reaper Sensor The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Monday awarded General Atomics (GA) Electromagnetic Systems a $134 million contract to finish the development, integration and flight test of an advanced sensor on MQ-9 Reaper drones. The…
CommercialBVLOS Commercial Drone Flights Launch at Grand Sky Grand Sky Drone Park at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota kicked off the country's first approved beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) large commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flight operations Monday. To mark…
CommercialFrom Air Force to Avionics: One AIT Engineer's Path Chris Hartley had to get his parents to sign a waiver so he could sign up for the U.S. Air Force at 17. Now a software engineer for Teradyne subsidiary Avionics Interface…
RegulationSan Diego Drone IPP Launches with Cape Telepresence Tech One of the U.S.'s 10 participants in the nation-wide drone integration pilot program (IPP) launched in San Diego, California last week. To kick it off, the San Diego Fire Department responded to…
Business & GAAirbus Moves Closer to First ACJ320neo Flight Airbus Corporate Jets is several weeks away from the first flight of its ACJ320neo after the first A320 in the re-engined business jet configuration rolled off the OEM’s production line in Hamburg,…