CommercialOnboard Teaching Hospital Flies to Peru Orbis' Flying Eye Hospital — the world's only U.S.-accredited teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft — has returned to Trujillo, Peru, for the sixth time to deliver three weeks of ophthalmic…
MilitarySlovakia to Purchase F-16s and Missiles for Nearly $3B The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $2.9 billion deal with Slovakia for 14 F-16 Block 70/72 V aircraft, missiles and mission systems. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress…
CommercialAirbus' Navblue to Provide Runway Overrun System for JetSmart A320s Airbus subsidiary Navblue will equip low-cost Chilean carrier JetSmart’s 100-member A320-family fleet with a runway overrun protection system (ROPS). ROPS is an onboard cockpit alerting system that reduces exposure to runway overrun…
MilitaryMQ-25 Stingray Drone Purpose-Built to Marry Manned, Unmanned Manned and unmanned aircraft working in tandem is the arena where Lockheed Martin sees the upcoming MQ-25A Stingray breaking ground, according to Skunk Works head Rob Weiss. Speaking at the annual Sea-Air-Space…
MilitaryDOD to Take More Control of F-35 Program Management The U.S. Defense Department (DOD) wants more control over the F-35 Lightning II, and it aims to accomplish that by restructuring the joint strike fighter program, according to Pentagon officials. Pentagon acquisition…
Embedded AvionicsFAA Tasks Leidos with GPS-augmenting WAAS Satellite for $117M The FAA has awarded Leidos a task order to develop the seventh-generation geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellite used for the FAA wide area augmentation system (WAAS). The task order has a four-year development…
MilitaryUS Military's Vertical Lift Plans Necessitate More Advanced Drones Aside from developing a revolutionary new family of rotorcraft, the U.S. Army’s ongoing Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program includes building a next-generation unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that will fly in formation with…
Embedded AvionicsThe Double-Edged Sword of Automation With Applied Avionics' Steve Edwards Steve Edwards, Applied Avionics’ VP of product development, has done a lot of things in engineering. He jokes that he has “a lot of blood on [his] hands.” He worked on surveillance…