CommercialGroups Form Anti-User-Fee Coalition A group of businesses ranging from agriculture to small business to local governments is banding together against the FAA’s user-fee proposal. The Alliance for Aviation Across America, which includes the National Business…
CommercialLion Air to Use Honeywell Avionics Indonesian airline Lion Air selected Honeywell to provide next-generation weather radar and other avionics systems for up to 60 new Boeing B737NG aircraft. Lion Air selected Honeywell’s RDR-4000 next-generation windshear/weather radar system…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Wins C-5 Contract The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $10 million contract to provide technical services for the C-5 Galaxy's Avionics Modernization Program. The five-year contract has a base year with four one-year…
MilitaryHMDS Flies on JSF A Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) made by Rockwell Collins joint venture Vision Systems International (VSI) flew for the first time on an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. VSI, a joint venture…
MilitaryNavy Awards UAV Pact The U.S. Navy awarded an $8.4 million contract to Pedigree Technologies, Fargo, N.D., for the research and development of Electro-Optical Radio Frequency and Acoustic Sensors for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle platforms. Work will…
Business & GAL-3 to Supply Recorders for Phenoms L-3 Communications Aviation Recorders, a Sarasota, Fla.-based division of L-3 Communications, said it was selected by Embraer to supply Combination Voice & Data Recorder (CVDR), Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data…
MilitaryGlobal Hawk Completes Strength Tests Northrop Grumman said it completed three significant fuselage and empennage strength tests of the RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance system. The tests were conducted at subcontractor Innovative Engineering Solutions'…
MilitaryAPI Nanotronics Division Nets $1.2 Million in New Orders API Nanotronics Corp., a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based supplier of electronic components to the defense and communications sectors, said its Filtran Ltd. division received more than $1.2 million in new orders in March. The…