Business & GAProduct Focus: Connectors Few other components in aerospace have changed as little as connectors have over the years. However, the connector has been roused from its slumber by the introduction of new aircraft — Boeing’s…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Data Storage VMETRO unveiled three storage devices for use with its Vortex data recording services. The rack mount storage units provide 4Gb fibre channel Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) and Switched…
MilitaryPerspectives: Being Net-Centric The concept of network centric operations, or network centric warfare (NCO/NCW), emerged in the 1990s. Then called "C4I for the warrior," it focused on creating a unified battle space for joint military…
MilitaryFinland Orders LITENING Pod Northrop Grumman received a $30 million contract to deliver LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) systems to the Finnish Air Force (FiAF) for its F-18 Mid-life Update 2 Program. Under the contract, Northrop Grumman's…
MilitaryMcDonnell Douglas Wins Navy Work McDonnell Douglas Corp., was awarded $15.4 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy for avionics repair facility support, which provides for repair of various F/A-18 and AV-8B components. Work will be performed…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: Two Safety Studies A study that came over the transom recently speaks to improving safety on airline flight decks. Unfortunately another study, or at least the beginnings of one, that could add substantially to what…
MilitaryBAE, Metronor AS in Boresight Pact BAE Systems awarded Norway-based Metronor AS an additional Harmolign boresight system contract. Financial terms were not disclosed. The contract covers development and supply of a new configuration of the Harmolign boresight system…
CommercialAirBaltic Signs with AD Aerospace AirBaltic, Latvia's national airline, selected U.K.-based AD Aerospace Ltd., to provide video based cockpit security systems for Boeing 737 and 757 commercial airliners. The company said the CabinVu-123 Cockpit Door Monitoring Systems…