MilitaryElbit Subsidiary Gets Contract for RC-26B Avionics Refresh Support Systems Associates, Inc. (SSAI) has awarded Elbit Systems of America a $5-to-$22 million sub-contract for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) avionics on the U.S. Air National Guard's RC-26B fleet. Work will be performed…
Embedded AvionicsGarmin's GPS 3000 Gets Certified in Europe Garmin's new wide-area/satellite-based augmentation system (WAAS/SBAS) GPS, the GPS 3000, has been certified in Europe. Meeting ADS-B Out requirements and capable of five position updates per second, the remote-mount GPS 3000 is…
MilitaryHow Airbus, Boeing are Helping Aviation Engineering Startups in India By 2025, India is expected to surpass the U.K. as the world’s third largest market for commercial airline operations. The South Asian nation’s passenger traffic is projected to surge to 278 million…
RegulationWill EASA Create a New Category for eVTOL Certification? The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is considering adding a "special condition" category to deal with the certification of electric and hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, but the proposal may…
MilitaryMercury Systems Acquires GECO Avionics Mercury Systems has completed its $36.5 million acquisition of GECO Avionics. Headquartered at a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, GECO was first established in 1995. Mercury wants to use the acquisition…
Editor's NoteElectric Avionics In 2017, when I first started covering Uber’s Elevate division and its plan to make electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis a reality by the early to mid-2020s, the industry…
ConnectivityCollins Avionics Chief Explains Future Vision with UTC Kent Statler has arguably one of the most exciting new jobs as a result of United Technologies’ (UTC) $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins to form Collins Aerospace. The new company is…
Embedded AvionicsMercury VP Sees eVTOLs Driving Future of Embedded Avionics Convergence The use of an electric air taxi to commute between vertiports in traffic-choked cities might seem like a futuristic fantasy, but one of the world’s largest suppliers of open systems-based embedded avionics