CommercialEditor’s Note: Militarizing FOQA An article in this month's issue discusses a subject familiar to readers of Avionics Magazine--but from a very different perspective. We describe the U.S. Department of the Navy's plans to adapt a…
ATM ModernizationGround-Based Augmentation At A Glance: The U.S. military's ground-based augmentation system (GBAS) program, dubbed Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, or JPALS, is designed for installation on ships, as well as at ground facilities,…
Business & GAMilitary FOQA Next Step in Safety At A Glance: Long a staple of commercial aviation, flight operations quality assurance is coming to the military, too, as the Pentagon presses for heightened safety and readiness. We focus on the…
MilitaryProduct Focus: What’s New in 1553? Mil-Std-1553 remains a dynamic area of avionics, and the technology continues to evolve, embracing packaging and software innovations, faster processors and local area networks, as well as reaching toward truly high-speed implementations.…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Web-Based Flight Tracking ADS and Satamatics, UK and U.S. satcom companies, have launched a low-overhead flight following and messaging service called SAT 111. Based on Inmarsat's satellite network, SAT 111 is being…
CommercialPeople Charles Keegan Former vice president-operations planning for FAA, Charles Keegan, has joined Raytheon Co. as director of strategic development, airspace management and homeland security (AMHS). He reports to Andrew Zogg, AMHS vice…
ATM ModernizationPerspectives: How Avionics Redefined Rotorcraft Design In the early days of rotorcraft development, avionics and systems had a limited role in aircraft design. Essentially, the helicopter was an airframe and one or more engines. Early flight control systems…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Matt Zuccaro: Rotorcraft Safety, Katrina and ADS-B In the aviation menagerie, the helicopter is clearly a different animal. It performs many functions that other air vehicles cannot--for example, landing on offshore oil rigs. Rotorcraft are particularly beneficial during rescue…