Commercial New House Bill Would Fund FAA During Future Government Shutdowns A new bill that would protect the FAA's funding in the event of government shutdown was put forward Friday in the House of Representatives by…
Commercial Planned Bristow Acquisition of Columbia Nixed Amid Bristow Financial Loss, Decline in Share Price Houston-based Bristow Group Inc. and Oregon-based Columbia Helicopters, Inc. said on Feb. 11 that they had "mutually agreed" to terminate the planned Bristow acquisition of…
Commercial DJI Wants Drone Tracking to Balance Operator Privacy and Public Safety Chinese drone-maker DJI, which holds a 70 percent market share in the worldwide civil drone market, advocates a local-broadcast identification solution to the issue of…
Military Bell To Receive $240 million As Part of Planned Delivery of 12 AH-1Zs to Bahrain The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Bell a more than $240 million contract as part of the delivery of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to…
Military Future Vertical Lift Cape Set 1 "Likely Replacement" for SOCOM Little Birds A variant of the U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Capability Set 1 is a "likely replacement" for the U.S. Special Operations Command's fleet of…
Commercial Airbus and Dassault Systèmes Sign Five-Year Pact to Overhaul Airbus Manufacturing Airbus has signed a five-year memorandum of agreement with Dassault Systèmes (3DS) to evolve the engineering and manufacture of Airbus aircraft. Under the agreement, Airbus…
Military Full Speed Ahead for Army’s CIRCM Operational Flight Tests Testing and assessment of the common infrared countermeasures (CIRCM) system show it is “perform[ing] as intended,” according to the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Director,…
Commercial Echodyne Supporting UTM Testing of BVLOS Capability in Northern Plains Radar-maker Echodyne will partner with North Dakota's Northern Plains UAS Test Site as part of the next phase of the UAS Pilot Program (UPP), one…
Regulatory DHS Planning Drone Mitigation and Tracking Evaluations Later This Year The Department of Homeland Security is working toward conducting separate series of evaluations later this year of systems that can be used to detect, track,…
Military AH-64Es May Receive Software Fixes to Improve 30mm Gun Accuracy The Boeing AH-64E may receive software fixes to improve the accuracy of the helicopter's Orbital ATK 30 mm gun. "Operational units have reported that the…
Military UPDATED: US Army UH-60V Cockpit Upgrades Progressing, Despite Some Software Reliability Issues The U.S. Army’s development of more modern cockpits and a digital pilot-vehicle interface for legacy UH-60L Black Hawks is progressing, showing positive performance increasing pilot…