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Farnborough Report e-newsletter in July covers the Farnborough International Airshow 2010 from avionics, electronics, and electro-optics perspective. The editors of Avionics Intelligence and Military & Aerospace Electronics will produce the Farnborough Report e-newsletter with technology and business news from the Farnborough International Airshow 2010 from Monday, July 19th through Friday, July 23rd, which will go out to all subscribers of PennWell Aerospace & Defense Media Group e-newsletters. If you're not already a subscriber, go to www.militaryaerospace.com/newsletters.html and sign up for one or all of these e-newsletters, and the Farnborough Report will land in your inbox every day of the Farnborough International Airshow 2010. |
F/A-22 Raptor program accelerating toward high-rate production
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 20, 2004. The F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter program -- led by Lockheed Martin -- is producing aircraft at an ever increasing rate and is on track for 2004.
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UK Ministry of Defence selects Thales as preferred bidder for WATCHKEEPER
HAIFA, Israel, July 20, 2004. Elbit Systems Ltd. reported today that the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced the selection of Thales UK as preferred bidder for the next phase of the acquisition cycle of the WATCHKEEPER programme. Elbit Systems is a significant part of the Thales UK team.
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Boeing projects $5.4 trillion market for new airplanes and services
FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom, July 20, 2004. Boeing sees a $5.4 trillion market for new commercial airplanes and aviation services during the next 20 years, which will bring about a doubling of the world's airplane fleet by 2023 and accommodate a forecasted 5.2 percent annual increase in world air travel.
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L-3 Communications wins $14 million contract for hardware on Boeing Delta rockets
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 19, 2004. L-3 Communications announced today that its Space & Navigation division (L-3 S&N) has been awarded a $14 million contract by the Boeing Company of Huntington Beach, California, for the Delta Avionics program.
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Raytheon sells bomb guidance kits to Denmark
FARNBOROUGH, England and TUCSON, Ariz., July 19, 2004. Raytheon Company has received a contract to produce Enhanced Paveway II bomb guidance kits for Denmark.
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Laser tracker fits the bill for helicopter augmented-reality system
The laserBIRD tracker from Ascension Technology in Burlington, Vt., is the foundation of a helicopter-based augmented-reality night-vision system developed in partnership at QinetiQ in Farnborough, England, and the National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Aerospace Research (NRC-IAR) in Ottawa.
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Industry Trends Spell Fundamental Changes For Commercial Aviation
LONDON, -- Industry trends already in place prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks, primarily related to the global economic downturn, will drive fundamental change in the business model for the commercial aviation industry. This transition, which will cascade through the supply chain, may occur slowly -- over the next eight to 10 years -- or rapidly, in the next three to four years, if driven by trigger events such as major new terrorist attacks or war with Iraq
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Connexion by Boeing Adds Eutelsat for European Coverage
FARNBOROUGH, England, -- Connexion by Boeing, the high-speed mobile information service, has contracted with Eutelsat to use the IIF4 satellite to provide additional transponder capacity that will provide real-time connectivity for airborne travelers en route between North America and Europe.
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Boeing and BAE Systems to Partner on Missile Defense
FARNBOROUGH, U.K.-- The Boeing Company and BAE SYSTEMS announced at the Farnborough Airshow a memorandum of understanding to support all aspects of global ballistic missile defense. Through this agreement, two of the world's leading aerospace and defense companies will collaboratively develop opportunities in missile defense drawing on their existing skills and capabilities.
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F-35 JSF Team Holds Briefing at Farnborough Air Show
FARNBOROUGH, England, -- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter team members emphasized the importance of global participation in the program, as they introduced an historic lineup of international F-35 partners during a briefing at the Farnborough International Air Show.
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CMC to Launch Engine Display Program at Farnborough
Wichita, Kan. -- CMC Electronics Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada will begin their sales and marketing efforts for the AvVance Engine Instrument Display System, manufactured by Spirent Systems, at this year's Farnborough International exhibition, 22-28 July.
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The one-size-fits-all aircraft
The trend within the U.S. military services toward ever fewer aircraft types means giving up multi-mission capabilities unless designers can customize the aircraft at the avionics suites.
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Product Application Design Solutions
Enabling technologies for military & aerospace electronics engineers
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Product Application Design Solutions
Lockheed Martin to supply aircraft electronics test sets for U.S. Navy, Silicon Graphics teams with Air Force to develop imaging technologies, MORE...
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Globalizing aerospace Sanders and other Lockheed Martin units to join BAE Systems
BETHESDA, Md. — Sanders, the Nashua, N.H.-based portion of Lockheed Martin Corp., is set to change hands, which experts say will bolster Sanders's prowess as a merchant supplier in high-technology areas such as electronic warfare.
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Boeing JSF avionics team eyes COTS and open architectures to fight obsolescence
FARNBOROUGH, England — Avionics designers for the Boeing version of the future Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) plan to use an open-architecture approach and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components in their effort to field and maintain cutting-edge electronics technology for the new aircraft.
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Smiths Industries to provide analog/digital gateway on Lockheed Martin JSF aircraft
FARNBOROUGH, England — Avionics designers at Smiths Industries Aerospace are set to build at least four avionics subsystems for the Lockheed Martin entry in the competition to build the future Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
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Smiths Industries to provide analog/digital gateway on Lockheed Martin JSF aircraft
Avionics designers at Smiths Industries Aerospace are set to build at least four avionics subsystems for the Lockheed Martin entry in the competition to build the future Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
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Boeing JSF avionics team eyes COTS and open architectures to fight obsolescence
Avionics designers for the Boeing version of the future Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) plan to use an open-architecture approach and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components in their effort to field and maintain cutting-edge electronics technology for the new aircraft.
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Databus evolution: 1553 switching over to Fibre Channel
High-performance databus technology represents a spectrum of choices for military users. At one end is the proven MIL-STD 1553, which is just that: a military standard. At the other end is the emerging Fibre Channel, a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology with extraordinary promise. In between are several candidates, most of them from the commercial world, such as Fiber Distributed Data Interface/Copper Distributed Data Interface (FDDI/CDDI), the IEEE standard 1394 (better known as Firewir
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