The goal of the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) technical standards is to make military aircraft platforms more interoperable, affordable, and quickly upgradeable. Boeing [BA], the Army, AdaCore, and Presagis came together during the Accelerating Avionics Design & Testing through ...
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The British Army received its first two Boeing [BA] Apache AH-64E helicopters from the U.S. government on Nov. 26. The $2.3 billion deal was announced by the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) Ministry of Defense in July 2016 and includes a total of 50 Apache attack helicopters, which will be replacing the ...
Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Boeing [BA]on Monday announced successful test flights using an open systems architecture with an active electronically scanned array (AESA) sensor on a midsize jet-powered aircraft. Northrop Grumman’s open mission systems (OMS) compliant advanced wideband AESA sensor ...
The Air Force’s B-1B bombers have an all-new Integrated Battle Station (IBS) equipped with a fully-integrated data link (FIDL), vertical situational display upgrade (VSDU), and improved central integrated test system (CITS). The IBS modification, which started in 2012, was announced as ...
Seventeen companies have signed Space Act Agreements with NASA to participate in the agency’s first Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge, a series of technology demonstrations meant to test the readiness of vehicles and systems intended for use in low-altitude, urban airspace. Joby Aviation was the ...
Boeing [BA] unveiled its six-bladed main rotor/rear propulsor, single engine, tandem seating design for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) on March 3, a blueprint that also features a “state-of-the-art cockpit with a reconfigurable large area display and ...