Embedded AvionicsIs This the Future of Communications, Navigation and Surveillance? Predicting the future is a unique challenge, often fraught with uncertainty and ultimately failure. The concepts behind strategic planning as both a practical and theoretical exercise attempt to define a point in…
MilitaryUS Air Force Looking for Light-Attack Aircraft Bids As Soon as This Year A U.S. Air Force competition to buy light-attack aircraft might formally begin in as few as five months, according to an industry source. The service has told aircraft manufacturers that it expects…
Business & GABombardier Unveils Global 7000-Exclusive Cabin Management System Bombardier unveiled a preview of its Global 7000-exclusive nice touch cabin management system (CMS). A Bombardier-Lufthansa Technik collaboration, the new system focuses on cabin interaction through a combination of physical and digital…
ConnectivityAvionica, GE Aviation Form Joint Venture for Aviation Data GE Aviation and Avionica plan to take aircraft data usage and related product deliveries to new heights under a new joint venture. The two companies have not disclosed terms of the deal,…
Business & GAGulfstream Sets Mark for Asia-to-North America Tandem Speed with New Biz Jets Gulfstream paired their upcoming G500 and G600 jets for a record-setting flight from Shanghai to Honolulu. Flying together, the jets averaged Mach 0.90, according to Gulfstream, with the G500 taking 8 hours…
UnmannedUS DHS, DOJ Receive Counter-Drone Authority Under Proposed Senate Bill A small bipartisan group of senators Monday introduced legislation that would give the U.S. departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice (DOJ) authority to defeat threats posed by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to…
ConnectivityHoneywell Helicopter Software Gets New FDM App Honeywell has introduced a new flight data monitoring (FDM) iPad application for helicopter operators equipped with Sky Connect Tracker III systems. Operators can use the Sky Connect flight data monitoring app to…
MilitaryF-35 Joint Program Office Contracts Analytics Company for Consulting Decisive Analytics Corporation has been awarded a blank purchase agreement contract with NAVAIR Warfare Center Lakehurst's Aircraft Division to provide support to the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO). Task orders under this…