Business & GA

New GPS Headlines Host of Oshkosh Updates From Garmin

Garmin introduced a new GPS navigator offering localizer performance with vertical approach guidance (LPV)  and a built-in communications radio last week at EEA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The GNC 355 is intended…

Military

EGI-M: Northrop Grumman's GPS for GPS-Denied Areas

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The business case for Northrop Grumman's assured position, navigation and timing (A-PNT) solution is tricky, on its face — GPS is better, and as long as you have…

Connectivity

Lockheed's VTOL Data Fusion Sensor Suite Tested on V-280

Lockheed Martin has flight tested its pilotage distributed aperture sensor (PDAS) on a Bell V-280 Valor. PDAS is a multi-function sensor system for vertical lift aircraft that generates and fuses high-resolution, 360-degree…

Commercial

Honeywell to Handle Navigation for Volocopter eVTOL

Honeywell and Volocopter will jointly test and develop navigation and automated landing systems for Volocopter's electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the two companies announced April 8. The solutions will build…

Embedded Avionics

Elbit Approved to Acquire Universal Avionics

Elbit Systems has received necessary government approval to acquire Universal Avionics Systems Corporation. Universal Avionics will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit after the acquisition, which the parties said they expect to…

Embedded Avionics

3 Things We Learned at Aviation Electronics Europe 2017

With a total of 50 exhibitors, seven panel discussions, four workshops and two certified training courses on DO-178C and DO-254, Europe’s biggest avionics industry event, Aviation Electronics Europe 2017, concluded Wednesday. While it…