Latest Articles by Tish Drake

Military

Herley Industries Awarded Avionics Contract

Herley Industries, based in Lancaster, Pa., received a $16 million contract from Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEi) of Sacramento, Calif., for its avionics suite for the Air Force Sub-scale Aerial Target (AFSAT), also designated as…

Military

AeroVironment Wins Army, Marine Corps Pact

AeroVironment (AV), a provider of unmanned aircraft systems, received a $23.9 million fixed-price order under an existing contract to provide digital Raven systems and kits to upgrade existing analog Raven systems currently…

Military

Lockheed Martin ATP Completes Second Phase

Lockheed Martin said Monday it completed Phase 2 of its Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) B-52 integration program at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. The company said the integration will provide long-range,…

Commercial

Air Asia X to Install Teledyne's WQAR

Teledyne Controls, of El Segundo, Calif., signed a contract with AirAsia X, the long haul low-cost airline affiliate of AirAsia, to provide its Wireless GroundLink Quick Access Recorder (WQAR) for 25 new Airbus…

Editor's Note

Rockwell Collins Selected for MC-21 Family

Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide avionics and pilot controls for the new MC-21 family of single-aisle aircraft being developed by Russian-based Irkut Corp., part of United Aircraft Corporation. The first…

Military

Boeing's B-1 Completes First Flight Test

Boeing said Friday it has successfully completed the first phase of the flight test for a B-1 bomber upgraded with new digital avionics. The B-1 Fully Integrated Data Link (FIDL) flight test plan…

Military

Curtiss-Wright Acquires Skyquest Systems

Curtiss-Wright Controls, based in Charlotte, N.C., will pay about $16 million to acquire Skyquest Systems Ltd., a Basildon, U.K.-based supplier of aircraft video displays, recorders and video/radar converters for surveillance aircraft. The business will become part…

Military

Boeing Completes Multimodal Exercise

Boeing completed a demonstration for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) that integrated air and ground unmanned systems to perform psychological operations (PSYOP) wartime missions for combatant commands, the airframer said…