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January 26-28 Institute of Navigation (ION) 2004 National Technical Meeting, Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, Calif. For more information, phone 703-383-9688, fax 703-383-9689, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.ion.org. February 9-11 5th Annual…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Adapting to a Changing World

A wag once said that prophecy involves observing the past and guessing it will happen again. Perhaps. Aviation is known to be a cyclical industry. But in addition to its economic ups…

ATM Modernization

Enhanced Vision: Final Link in Situational Awareness?

Over the past 100 years of flight–and, no doubt, for hundreds of years to come–an airplane pilot's uppermost concern has been, and will continue to be, the need to maintain situational awareness.…

Editor's Note

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December 1-4 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. Contact I/ITSEC, phone 949-475-9965, fax 949-475-1765 or visit www.iitsec.org. 1-12 Helios Information Services, courses on subjects such…

Business & GA

Building Highways in the Sky

The synthetic highway in the sky (HITS) has become a reality in aircraft cockpits, and Chelton Flight Systems has been key in making it so. The Boise, Idaho-based avionics manufacturer gained Federal…

ATM Modernization

Product Focus: Data Communications: Pumping the Bus

Network-centric warfare applications and integrated architectures are driving the military toward higher-bandwidth onboard interconnects. At the low end, in the Mil-Std-1553 domain, engineers are trying to pump the 1-megabit/sec (Mbit/sec) bus as…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Wright Flyer to the Concorde

Just as the Wright flyer was the precursor to today’s fast, sleek aircraft and the spindly biplane’s water-cooled, four-cyclinder engine was the forerunner of current multithousand-pound thrust jet engines, so too was…

Military

COTS: At Home in Military Simulation

At one time military electronics equipment established the benchmarks for capacity and speed. But commercial information technology now sets the pace, propelled by investment in consumer products. After a period of looking…