ATM ModernizationIndustry Leader Profiles In this special Industry Leader Profiles section, Avionics Magazine highlights leading suppliers of products and services to the worldwide aerospace electronics sector. Many of these companies provide components across the spectrum, including…
Embedded AvionicsFrequentis to Provide ATC Services in Netherlands Antilles The Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) selected Frequentis to replace its existing voice communications system (VCS) for the Curacao area control center (ACC). The ACC currently uses an earlier Frequentis VCS…
Editor's Note‘Sunny’ Days in Paris The champagne corks have been popped, billion-dollar deals signed and aircraft orders have been finalized. Another Paris Air Show in the books. And after all of that, the aviation industry is celebrating…
Editor's NoteIndustry Scan AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Grizzle Tapped for ATO FAA’s Chief Counsel David Grizzle has been tapped to lead the agency’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Administrator Randy Babbitt announced July 7. Grizzle will replace…
CommercialSharing the Sky The payoff of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for military, law enforcement and scientific missions is constrained by the airspace they can share with manned aircraft. As of May 2011, one Broad Area…
Business & GAQ&A: Honeywell Defense and Space After a decade of fighting overseas wars, the U.S. defense industry is undergoing some downsizing. Pentagon officials have declared the need for belt-tightening as it draws down troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.…
CommercialSensor Payloads There is no shortage of diversity in the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) market. There are UASs the size of Boeing 737s and handheld systems that weigh less than a pound. Most of…
Editor's NotePeople Mike Opheim Satcom Direct, of Satellite Beach, Fla., named Mike Opheim vice president of business aviation sales. Opheim brings with him nearly 30 years of experience in business aviation, with most of…