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Northrop Grumman Tests UAV Interaction

Northrop Grumman said it demonstrated interoperability between manned and unmanned platforms during a recent virtual joint military demonstration. During the month-long exercise, called Empire Challenge 09 and executed by U.S. Joint Forces Command, virtual…

ATM Modernization

NextGen Task Force Issues Draft Report

The RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force, formed earlier this year to guide FAA in expediting NextGen, will deliver a set of operational capability recommendations in five identified “domains” of Surface, Runway…

Commercial

Boeing Hits RNP Milestone in Panama

Boeing said Thursday it completed a critical design review for Required Navigation Performance (RNP) at Panama's Tocumen International Airport and Howard Airport. The critical design review, which took place at the Copa…

Commercial

China Southern Selects Rockwell Collins

China Southern Airlines selected Rockwell Collins to provide avionics components for 10 Airbus A330s. The avionics selected includes the MultiScan weather radar, GLU-920 Multi-Mode Receiver, ADF-900 Automatic Direction Finder, DME-900 Distance Measuring…

Business & GA

L-3 to Provide Recorders for CSeries

L-3 Aviation Recorders, based in Sarasota, Fla., was selected by Bombardier Aerospace to supply the voice and flight data recording systems for the new Bombardier CSeries. L-3 said its cockpit voice system…

Business & GA

New President at Esterline CMC

Gregory Yeldon was named president of Esterline CMC Electronics, a job he's had on an interim basis since November. Parent company Esterline Corp. made the announcement Wednesday. Yeldon has more than 23 years…

Military

Hypertonics Connector On Global Hawk UAS

Hypertronics Corp., a Smiths Interconnect business based in Hudson, Mass., will provide its KA electrical connectors to Northrop Grumman for the Global Hawk UAS. The connector will be used in the braking and master…

Commercial

CSC to Provide ATC Simulators to Universities

CSC, based in Falls Church, Va., was selected to provide its NexSim Radar and Tower air traffic control simulation training systems to four universities. The company said it will provide a total of 32 NexSim…