Latest Articles by Tish Drake

Commercial

Air Austral Installs Panasonic IFE System

Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., installed its eX2 in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on two Boeing 777-300ERs for Air Austral, La Réunion, France. The eX2-equipped aircraft will enter service this month, the company…

Commercial

Thales Wins WAM Pact in Germany

Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS), the German Air Navigation Service Provider, awarded Thales a contract for the delivery, installation, training and commissioning of the PAM-FRA1 (Precision Approach Monitoring Frankfurt) system, the first operational…

Military

Northrop Grumman Wins Navy Pact

Northrop Grumman won a $22.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). This modification provides for incorporation of wing static and load…

Commercial

VSI Signs HMD Contracts

Vision Systems International (VSI), San Jose, Calif., signed several new contracts with a total value of more than $120 million. Boeing awarded VSI a contract for the delivery of more than 550 additional…

Military

Northrop Grumman Unveils Bat UAV

Northrop Grumman rebranded the Swift Engineering KillerBee product line, unveiling the Bat line of small unmanned air systems (UAS). The Bat systems will have wingspans ranging from 6.5 to 33.2 feet. Northrop…

Business & GA

CAE Tests Helicopter Sensor

CAE, of Montreal, and Neptec Design Group, of Ottawa, demonstrated a system integrating Neptec’s Obscurant Penetrating Autosynchronous LIDAR (OPAL) sensor and CAE’s Augmented Visionics System (AVS) designed to support safer helicopter operations…

Commercial

Florida Airport Using Sensis ASDE-X

Florida's Hollywood International Airport is now operating with Sensis Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X), a runway incursion detection and alerting system. Fifteen of the 35 airports to receive the technology…

Military

ORBexpress Evaluated Under Common Criteria

ORBexpress, a communications middleware made by Objective Interface Systems (OIS), of Herndon, Va., has become the first communications middleware to be evaluated under the Common Criteria international security certification standard. ORBexpress is undergoing this certification for…