Business & GA

Inmarsat Expands Asia Pacific Presence

Opening of Inmarsat’s Singapore office. Photo: Inmarsat [Avionics Today 01-21-2016] Inmarsat has opened a new Singapore office, which is the company’s largest facility in Asia Pacific region. The new facility will expand…

Commercial

Airbus Delivers First A320neo to Lufthansa

The Lufthansa Group, Airbus’ largest airline customer and operator, marked a major step in aviation history by taking delivery of the first A320neo on 20 January 2016. Left to right: Robert Leduc,…

Business & GA

CMU, Sikorsky Demonstrate UAV, UGV Collaboration

The Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft equipped with Matrix technology. Photo: Sikorsky [Avionics Today 01-20-2016] Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Sikorsky have completed a joint autonomy demonstration that proved the capability of new,…

Commercial

Delta Reinvests Record Profits into Fleet

Delta fleet. Photo: Wikimedia [Avionics Today 01-20-2016] Delta Air Lines reported a profitable quarter buoyed by dropping oil prices, including net income of $926 million, up 51 percent from the December quarter…

Embedded Avionics

FACE Avionics Software Reuse Expands With NAVAIR

[Avionics Today 01-20-2016] The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is continuing to expand the integration of the Future Air Capability Environment (FACE) avionics standard across its aircraft system. Most recently, Rockwell…

ATM Modernization

Eurocontrol Moves NewPENS Forward to Enable Data Driven ATM

Participants at the NewPENS meeting. Photo: Eurocontrol [Avionics Today 01-19-2016] Eurocontrol is moving forward with its implementation of NewPENS, which will build on the success of the current Pan-European Network Services (PENS)…

ATM Modernization

ST Engineering Aerospace Arm Inks $415 million in Contracts

Photo: ST Engineering Aerospace [Avionics Today 01-19-2016] Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) aerospace arm has secured new contracts worth $415 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, for projects ranging from airframe…