The Pentagon will have 2,936 aircraft equipped with Automatic Dependence Surveillance-Broadcast (Out) by the FAA-mandated deadline of Jan. 1, according to the U.S. Air Force, the military service in charge of the effort. That number is just 21 percent of DoD’s total aircraft inventory, but ...
Frank Wolfe
About a month after the FAA cleared the Leonardo TH-119 to fly in inclement weather under instrument flight rules (IFR), on Aug. 15 Bell [TXT] received IFR certification for the 407GXi helicopter, the company said. The FAA’s IFR certification of the TH-119 last month marked the first time in ...
The Army plans to add Ka-band satellite communications capability for its fleet of General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAVs, the military service said on Aug. 13. General Atomics is to award a contract for the Ka-band integration in the first quarter of fiscal 2020, a timeline that means that the ...
Collins Aerospace, a division of United Technologies Corp. [UTX], is set to modernize test range systems for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army under a $7.6 million set of Air Force task orders awarded on Aug. 8. Under the task orders, Collins plans to upgrade computer operating systems and operator ...
Engineers developing the Bell [TXT] Nexus air taxi are helping drive innovations that may lead to hybrid electric military air vehicles in the near term and all electric military air vehicles further down the line, Bell CEO Mitch Snyder said on Aug. 1. While companies’ defense and commercial ...
The French Armed Forces last week heralded the year-long participation of three British Royal Air Force HC Mk 5 Chinook helicopters in French counter-terror operations in Mali, as the French government examines a possible future buy of the Boeing [BA]-made aircraft for heavy lift and other missions. ...
