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Wind River, Intel Collaborate On Multicore

Wind River announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany, that it is working with Intel to market multicore processing solutions for the embedded market. The two companies will align research and development,…

Editor's Note

Calendar

March 17-19 ATC Global Exhibition & Conference, Amsterdam RAI Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Visit www.atcevents.com/atc09/homepage.asp. 29-April 3 Embedded Systems Conference, McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, Calif. Visit www.cmp-egevents.com/web/esv/home. 30-April 2 AMC and…

Business & GA

Managing Maintenance

Operators today — be they airline, business aviation, or military — are looking for known, predicable avionics costs, and this quest is driving industry maintenance trends. Avionics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are…

Commercial

Wire Inspection, The Navy’s Way

In the United States Navy, where operational readiness is directly tied to the mission capability of highly complex aircraft, preventive maintenance is the difference between mission success or mission failure. For more…

Business & GA

Enduring Oversight

Promising endurance of up to 52 hours and operating costs a fraction of those associated with fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, the Polar 400 Remotely Piloted Air Vehicle (RPAV) is an appealing new…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Lighting

With light-emitting diode (LED) technology for cockpit and cabin lighting now the norm for all new-production applications, lighting suppliers are working to develop higher-power LEDs that are brighter and to improve processing…

Business & GA

New Products

New Web Site Mid-Continent Instruments, Wichita, Kan., has launched a new Web site — www.mcico.com — providing a new tool to enhance customer service The new site was developed following a year…

ATM Modernization

Editor’s Note

ADS-B Advances Somewhat under the radar (I hate to start with a cliché, but the days may be numbered for radar)... FAA’s NextGen air-traffic control modernization is progressing. Despite all that has…