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Commercial

Singapore Airlines to Use Rockwell Collins Satcom

Singapore Airlines will use Rockwell Collins’ SAT-2100 satellite communication system with a single HST-2110 high-speed data transceiver for 58 Boeing 777 aircraft, the companies said Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under…

Military

Honeywell Wins Air Force Pact

Honeywell won an $8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to overhaul and modernize its F-15 Avionics Intermediate Shop (AIS) Antenna Test Station (ATS) and Enhancement Aircraft Radar Test Station (EARTS).…

Commercial

Editor’s Note: Europe United

My favorite textbook from college, "A Diplomatic History of the American People," is interspersed with political cartoons from our combative past that variously depicted Europeans as pompous, petulant, fractious and quarrelsome. Today,…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

CEO ‘Frustrated’ With NextGen Transition Below are excerpts of a speech given by Clayton M. Jones, chairman and CEO of Rockwell Collins, at a RTCA symposium March 14 in Washington, D.C. When…

ATM Modernization

People

Teri G. Marconi Northrop Grumman named Teri G. Marconi vice president of the combat avionics business unit for its Electronic Systems sector. Marconi will have executive responsibility for the company’s combat avionics…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

May 21-24 Regional Airline Association (RAA) Annual Convention, Memphis Marriott Downtown, Memphis, Tenn. Contact RAA, phone 202-367-1170 or visit www.raa.org. 21-24 World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) Conference and Educational Workshops, Zurich Marriott,…

Military

New Sensors are Force Multipliers

The global war on terrorism, shoulder-fired rockets and threats the military hasn’t even thought of yet are in part helping drive advances in sensor technologies. Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and BAE…

ATM Modernization

Europe Moves on Datalink

The day when pilots and air traffic controllers in Europe can bid farewell to routine voice messaging — for sector handovers, ATC clearances and the like — is coming closer as datalink…