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Business & GA

Lee County EMS Selects Becker Audio System

Lee County, Fla., has selected the DVCS6100 Digital Audio System from Becker Avionics, of Sarasota, Fla., for integration into its recently acquired Bell 430 twin-engine helicopter for its MEDSTAR emergency medial services…

Commercial

Esterline to Acquire Eclipse Electronic Systems

Esterline Corp., based in Bellevue, Wash., on Monday announced a $120 million acquisition of Eclipse Electronic Systems, Richardson, Texas, a supplier of signals intelligence and communications intelligence receiver hardware to the airborne…

Military

Raytheon Awarded F/A-18 AESA Radar Contract

Naval Air Systems Command has awarded a $52 million contract to Raytheon to produce APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars for F/A-18 Super Hornet. "Raytheon's high-performance AESA radar systems offer greater…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Outcome Metrics

The NextGen horizon is one where the line between sky and ground fades to indistinguishable; pilot and air-traffic controller are privy to the same information, in real-time, and aircraft operations through shared…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

New Republican Leadership Faults NextGen Effort The new chairman of House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee promised “rigorous oversight” of the NextGen air-traffic modernization effort, following a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that…

ATM Modernization

People

New Avionics Publisher Named Access Intelligence LLC has appointed Tish Drake publisher of Avionics Magazine. Drake has been with Access Intelligence for more than 10 years as publisher of Communications Technology magazine,…

Business & GA

Aspiring, Ascending

Aspire and Ascend are the names of two new product lines announced by EMS Aviation and Rockwell Collins, respectively, at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Atlanta in October. They…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

January 18–19 Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE), AsiaWorld Expo and Hong Kong Business Aviation Center, Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.abace.aero/2011. March 5-8 Heli-Expo 2011, Orange County Convention Center,…