ATM Modernization Industry Scan COMMERCIAL GE Buys Austin Digital GE Aviation acquired Austin Digital, a privately owned, Texas-based supplier of flight operations data analysis, which is designed to “strengthen GE’s services offerings with integrated solutions for…
ATM Modernization Routing RNP Alaska Airlines, which pioneered RNP, has been flying RNP approaches into 27 airports. In 2011, these approaches saved the airline 210,000 gallon of fuel and $19 million. Performance-based navigation (PBN), a key…
Commercial What Will Follow GPS? Alaska Airlines, which pioneered RNP, has been flying RNP approaches into 27 airports. In 2011, these approaches saved the airline 210,000 gallon of fuel and $19 million. It may seem strange, almost…
Commercial Test Equipment Boeing said its Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Automated Support System supports 639 different Units Under Test (UUT) and is set to host more than 750 UUTs. Pressed by tight budgets and program delays,…
Commercial Implementing a Complex Bus Solution with a Runtime-Defined Instrument Architecture Historically, defense and aerospace test programs on large-scale automatic test equipment (ATE) operated by sequentially applying, measuring and comparing voltages, currents, waveforms and digital truth tables. This procedural approach worked well in…
ATM Modernization New Products New Office Satcom Direct, of Satellite Beach, Calif., opened a new office in Savannah, Ga. The Satcom Direct Savannah office includes a business office and a satellite testing and integration lab. Customers…
Embedded Avionics Software DO-178C: What’s Next? Five and a half years down the road of revising the rules for writing safety-critical code — and three years past the anticipated deadline — RTCA in December approved…
Commercial Bluebox Avionics Ships Over 1,000 iPad IFE Solutions Bluebox Avionics has shipped more than 1,000 units of its iPad-based next-generation in-flight entertainment system—the Bluebox Ai—over the last two months. British Airways, Scoot, Thai Airways and Jetstar are among the airlines…