LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

TThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced its Materials Architectures and Characterization for Hypersonics (MACH) program, which seeks to develop and demonstrate new design and material solutions for sharp, shape-stable, cooled leading edges for hypersonic vehicles. 

AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

By now, you have heard much about the Lion Air crash on October 29, 2018. But let’s recap. Right after Lion Air Flight 610 crashed after requesting to return to the airport, reports began to be floated about the maintenance of the aircraft. 

AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

The Global Investment in Aviation Summit, which will take place on 28-29 January 2019 at the Intercontinental Dubai Festival City, will bring together a group of major international aviation companies along with 2000 participants, investors, aircraft and service providers, operators, and high-level international dignitaries and government officials.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Air Force officials accepted the first KC-46A Pegasus tanker from The Boeing Company. This is a major milestone for the next generation tanker and will allow Airmen to begin operational testing and flight training, Air Force officials report.

ADLINK TECHNOLOGY

ADLINK has developed its Vortex DDS implementation as a reference to align to the FACE Technical Standard Edition 2.1.1 TSS, using DDS as the underlying transport layer. This is fully compatible and interoperable with the commercially supported Vortex OpenSpliceTM V6.10 solution.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials selected Charles River Analytics Inc., developer of intelligent systems solutions, to develop the Evaluation-Driven Active Guide for Learning Maintenance Events (EAGLE).

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Boeing has signed an agreement with the government of Spain to upgrade all 17 of Spain’s CH-47D Chinook helicopters to the F-model configuration, adding features such as the digital automatic flight-control system, common avionics architecture system, and advanced cargo handling.

AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE

Flybe is getting a second chance after being bought by a Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group consortium. They are paying £2.2m. Going forward it will take on the Virgin Atlantic brand.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Mississippi-based company Vertex Aerospace will continue logistic support for the U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-12 program under a follow contract valued approximately $35 million and an estimated cumulative value of $70 million.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR 

U.S. Air Force (USAF) officials selected xG Technology's business unit, IMT Vislink, to supply airborne video downlink solutions under a $900,000 order. The follow-on order is part of a previously announced contract announced in May 2018 originally valued at $1.4 million.

RODGER HOSKING, PENTEK, INC.

Overwhelming adoption of software radio as a critical technology for real-time embedded systems spurs defense customers to expand its capabilities for the constantly evolving needs of military applications. With numerous vendors in the market, customers are seeking interoper­ability and easy insertion of new technology. 

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Air Force officials selected the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) to support research efforts in advancing structures technology for aerospace vehicles.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) officials selected Triumph Integrated Systems, a business unit at Triumph Group, Inc. (TGI), to deliver Enhanced Digital Electronic Control Units (EDECUs) for use in the U.S. Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache fleet. 

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The global combat aircraft market is set for rapid growth, with the potential to reach revenues of $493.14 billion by 2026, according to a new market study by Frost & Sullivan, "Global Combat Aircraft Market, Forecast to 2026."

TE CONNECTIVTY

The world of high speed connectivity is constantly changing and evolving, which is why we made it easier for you to make smart decisions about which high-speed interconnect products you should use. Everything you need to design your application is at your fingertips in TE Connectivity’s (TE) High-Speed Products Developer Kit.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the Ministry of Defence selected Raytheon UK to deliver support and sustainment services for the Royal air force's (RAF) Shadow aircraft fleet. The contract spans over the next 11 years and is valued at approximately $316 million (£250 million).

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials tasked NoVatel to design, produce, and deliver 40 next-generation Ground Uplink Station (GUS) Signal Generators to support the FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) navigation service.

SKYSCALE

On June 8th, 2018, the world’s fastest supercomputer, the IBM/NVIDIA® Summit, began final testing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Peak performance comes in at over 200 petaflops and 3.3 exaflops for tensor operations. Summit is a bare-metal high performance (HPC) in the cloud.