DR. BENJAMIN BROSGOL & DR. PATRICK ROGERS & DR. DUDREY SMITH, ADACORE

Airborne systems that need a small footprint or must comply with an industry assurance standard such as DO-178B [1] or DO-178C [2] incur size and complexity costs in the run-time support libraries.

MARK GROVAK CURTISS-WRIGHT DEFENSE SOLUTIONS

The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, part of The Open Group, was formed to establish a standard common operating environment to ­support portable capability-based applications across Department of Defense (DoD) avionics systems.

KARL KITTS, TE CONNECTIVITY

Think carefully when you answer this question: What's one of the fastest, most precise ways to prevent overcurrents from damaging the power circuits used aboard today's more-electrical and all-electrical aircraft? A thoughtful answer would be "smart power contactor,"...

AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

Adapting to new ideas and thinking is hard but we must do it. For all of us in the aviation maintenance industry, we must not only embrace change, but anticipate it, and be ready to react when it is occurring. Otherwise, our businesses will not survive.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) Logistics Center (ALC) selected Rockwell Collins to provide current component upgrades and additional component repair capabilities for the Common Avionics Architecture Systems (CAAS) on the Army’s CH-47F Chinook helicopter fleet.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The market for military and public-services helicopters is facing a slow recovery globally, following nearly 10 years of stagnation and delayed programs in key regions, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan, "Global Military and Public Services Helicopters Market, Forecast to 2026."

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Calspan Systems Corp. has won a $6 million contract from Siemens Government Technologies to upgrade the U.S. Army’s Helicopter Blade Balance Stand, which is located at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Boeing officials selected North Atlantic Industries' (NAI) dual-redundant, Flight Control Computer (FCC) for the RASCAL Research Helicopter.

JOY FINNEGAN, AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

Boeing has introduced a new tool called RouteSync that eliminates manual pre-flight processes for airlines by automating flight planning and performance data entry with the airplane’s Flight Management System (FMS) computer. RouteSync is now helping streamline the pre-flight process by saving airlines valuable time before takeoff.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR 

Department of Defense (DoD) officials selected Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, for a performance-based logistics contract to provide supply and logistics support to the entire fleet of in-service CH-53E Super Stallions and MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopters in support of U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) missions.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Rockwell Collins and the U.S. Navy Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS) have renewed an agreement to continue support on avionics displays for the Navy’s F/A-18 fleet of over 1,200 aircraft...

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The U.S. Army and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) completed a demonstration where Army pilots exercised supervised autonomy to direct an optionally-piloted helicopter (OPV) through a series of missions to demonstrate technology developed by DARPA and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company.

CHARLOTTE ADAMS, AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

Big data analytics is expanding from engines to all of aviation, as players gear up to compete in an arena viewed as critical to aftermarket success.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The U.S. Navy and Raytheon completed a demonstration showing that Raytheon's Ship Self Defense System established a digital air connection between a sea-based U.S. Navy ship and an airborne U.S. Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35B aircraft.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

SD Avionics, the hardware manufacturing division of Satcom Direct, has partnered with QEST Quantenelektronische Systeme. to develop a new flat panel connectivity antenna for business and military aviation.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at Insitu, a Boeing Company, and Persistent Systems, LLC. entered in a five-year agreement to incorporate Persistent’s Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network (MANET) technology into their line of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), including the ScanEagle, ScanEagle2, ScanEagle3, Integrator, and RQ-21A Blackjack.

RAY ALDERMAN, VITA STANDARDS ORGANIZATION

UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are already part of the kill web for the U.S. military, forming teams with manned aircraft, dropping bombs, and providing persistent surveillance across the globe and soon will be equipped with lasers to provide even more lethality. 

TE CONNECTIVITY

As military and aerospace applications move toward Gigabit and 10G networks, standard military connector technology has not kept pace. To evaluate the suitability of various connectors, we tested differential near-end crosstalk in links containing a traditional MIL-DTL-38999 connector and two connectors from TE Connectivity (TE) designed specifically for gigabit and 10G applications.