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Editor's Note

Perspectives: Implement, Deploy CNS Technologies

What key enabling technologies are critical to facilitating growth in the National Airspace System (NAS)? I believe the needed communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) technologies have been identified. These are Automatic Dependent…

Commercial

Product Focus: Data Acquisition

Among new systems that will debut on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorder (EAFR) manufactured by Smiths Aerospace, the first such recorder complying with the new ARINC 767…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Solid-State Relay Teledyne Relays, Hawthorne, Calif., unveiled the Series S60DC40 commercial DC solid-state relay for switching high-power DC loads. The device features the latest-generation Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) technology…

Editor's Note

Perspectives: Frequency Change

As the avionics industry moves toward realization of the all-electric aircraft, in which flight systems rely more on electric drives and actuation than ever before, the impact on the designs of electric…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Airspace Anxiety

The timing was coincidental, but the warnings were similarly dire. A British government report issued in late October predicted catastrophic consequences for the world economy if global warming continues its course, absent…

ATM Modernization

Scan

Lockheed Unveils ADS-B Team Systems integrator Lockheed Martin threw its hat into the ring for FAA’s coming requirement for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), unveiling a multidisciplinary team that includes Sensis Corp., Harris…

Editor's Note

People

Emily Feliz Emily Feliz joined Avionics magazine, Rockville, Md., as managing editor. She will be responsible for overseeing the design and production of the magazine as well as assisting in the editing…

Editor's Note

Calendar

January 8-11 Aerospace Sciences Conference and Exhibition, Grand Sierra Resort Hotel, Reno, Nev. Contact the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, phone 703-264-7500 or visit www.aiaa.org. 22-24 Institute of Navigation (ION) National…