MilitaryAvionics Crown Typhoon Performance At A Glance: Europe's Typhoon will feature several advanced avionics systems, such as: A helmet-mounted sight, DASS upgrades, and A new phased array radar. It's often been said that the appeal of…
Business & GASafety: Ignorance is Bliss Pilots have ample indications in the cockpit of engine functioning, but they won't have comparable information concerning the operation of their fuel tank inerting system. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed…
ATM ModernizationNew Products XM Radio Added To Avidyne MFD Avidyne Corp. of Lincoln, Mass., and Heads Up Technologies, Carrollton, Texas, are partnering to a provide XM Satellite Radio services on Avidyne's EX500 multifunction displays with…
CommercialPerspectives: New Standard for Modular Electronics VITA has initiated a committee, VITA-58, to produce an open standard that tightly defines the dimensions of line replaceable units (LRUs) and the appropriate connectors for power, data and cooling type. Technologically…
ATM ModernizationPeople Norman Mineta Norman Mineta, the 14th secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), resigned his position, effective last month. Deputy Secretary Maria Cino has been named the acting DOT head. The…
MilitaryRadar Transmitting Data At A Glance: Three major military contractors--Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, L-3 Communications and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics--are jointly developing a wideband data link communications capability for today's active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars…
MilitaryEditor's Note: Reinventing JTRS This month's issue updates readers on the U.S. military's vast Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program, which is developing a family of interoperable software defined radios that will, it is hoped, eventually…
ATM ModernizationScan AESA Radar Enters Operational Evaluation The U.S. Navy has cleared Raytheon's APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar to enter the service's operational evaluation (OPEVAL) program. The APG-79 will be used on…