Latest Articles by Jonathan Ray

Commercial

Editor's Note: Airshow Revisited

It didn’t bode well that I arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport simultaneously with several other flights from who knows where. Because of that unfortunate coincidence, I had more than an hour to…

ATM Modernization

People

Ken Tollstam SRA International, of Fairfax, Va., named Ken Tollstam vice president within its Aviation Programs business group. Tollstam will be responsible for leveraging SRA’s technology in the domestic air-traffic management (ATM)…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

September 13-16 Autotestcon 2010, Marriott Orlando World Center Resort & Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. Visit http://autotestcon.com. 13-16 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Annual Conference & Exhibition, Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center,…

Embedded Avionics

Jammer Next

With the award of technology maturation contracts to four industry teams in July, the U.S. Navy NextGen Jammer (NGJ) program within two years will advance from competing concepts to prototypes of the…

Commercial

IFE System Health

The AEEC Cabin Systems Subcommittee (CSS) has developed Supplement 1 to ARINC Specification 628: “Cabin Equipment Interface (CEI), Part 8, In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) Equipment Standard Availability Measurement Guidelines,” adopted by the AEEC…

Commercial

Product Focus: Test Equipment

About four months into its most important modernization program for the testing of aircraft avionics, automatic test equipment (ATE) engineers at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are excited about how…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Optical Network Interconnections French aerospace connector manufacturer Souriau and Protokraft, of Kingsport, Tenn., have developed optical network interconnections using Souriau’s ELIO optical interfaces. Protokraft introduced the Sabre Series of high-speed optoelectronic solutions…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Military Project Julius Thales in July reported delivering the first shipset of avionics hardware it is providing for British Royal Air Force CH-47 Chinooks as part of Project Julius, a $650 million…