Commercial

Wind River Powers F-35 Communications in Flight Test

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] Avionics Magazine recently caught up with Wind River to discuss how its VxWorks Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) Platform provided a separation kernel-based security foundation for a…

Commercial

Navy's X-47B Completes First Night Flight

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) completed its first night flight over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The Navy completed…

Commercial

Telefonix to Develop Gogo Onboard Server

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Telefonix has a new agreement to develop an onboard server, the ACPU-2, for Gogo's in-flight connectivity service.  ACPU-2 features ARINC 429, expanded Gigabit Ethernet ports supported by a…

Commercial

LynxOS RTOS Ready for Market Entry 

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Embedded safety and software security provider LynuxWorks announced the "upcoming availability" of its LynxOS-178.2.2.3, an FAA Level A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).  LynxOS-178 is the first Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)…

Business & GA

Making Autopilot Systems Safer

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Would you believe that just 30 lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447 from crashing into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009? Carlos Varela, an…

Commercial

Japan Airlines to Trial Gogo's 2Ku

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Japan Airlines is expected to be among the first airlines to try out a new Ground to Orbit (GTO) in-flight connectivity service, 2Ku, which Gogo says will…

Commercial

Lockheed Martin, Navy Make Autonomous Aerial Strides 

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Officials from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced two helicopter flight tests with unmanned flight capability that are a major step forward in the military's Autonomous Aerial…