PHOENIX, July 29, 2010. Honeywell (NYSE: HON) signed a 10-year integrated service agreement for support of All Nippon Airways's (ANA's) 50 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Honeywell will provide access to spares, logistics, and repair services for the Honeywell equipment installed on the B787 aircraft. Honeywell provides multiple products to the B787 aircraft, including flight control electronics, navigation radios, crew information system, and interior and exterior lighting.

SAN DIEGO, Calif., 28 July 2010. Cubic Corp. (NYSE: CUB) fielded the fifth generation air combat training system at Marine Corps Air Station. Cubic Defense Applications, Inc., the defense systems business of Cubic, and principal subcontractor DRS Technologies have developed the P5 Combat Training System/Tactical Combat Training System (P5CTS/TCTS).

BOULDER, Colo, 27 July 2010. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., and NASA conducted a technology demonstration of a navigation system that will make docking operations safer and easier for spacecraft flying to the International Space Station (ISS). The demonstration showed the dynamic nature of the sensors by simulating crewed and uncrewed docking operations.

TOKYO, Japan, 27 July 2010. Boeing (NYSE: BA) Training & Flight Services completed an update of the visual systems on All Nippon Airways' (ANA) three 767-300 full-flight simulators in Tokyo. The upgrade enhances the realism and quality of the training and ensures conformity with the latest regulatory requirements.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 26 2010. Cobham SATCOM announced that its HGA-7001 High Gain antenna system has been certified on the Airbus long range family of aircraft.The HGA-7001 antenna provide improved performance in drag reduction, weight, compactness and power requirements for aircraft connectivity systems, Cobham officials say. The antennas are complemented by Cobham SATCOM's compact and modular SwiftBroadband products, enabling internet, email, VPN, fax and telephony while airborne, with configuration options to fit virtually every aircraft from very light jets to large widebody aircraft.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 26 July 2010. World sales of commercial regional passenger aircraft with 30 to 120 seats will total 6,875 over the next two decades, led by North America with 2,400; Europe with 1,510; and China with 950, says Brazilian commercial aircraft manufacturer Embraer in its latest market forecast. This would represent a 4.9 percent annual increase in world regional aircraft sales through 2029. Embraer released the forecast last week at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., 26 July 2010. Lion Air in Jakarta, Indoesia selected the Wireless GroundLink Quick Access Recorder (WQAR) from Teledyne Controls in El Segundo, Calif., to retrofit their 60 Boeing 737-900ER aircraft. The Indonesian airline also selected the AirFASE software, a flight data monitoring (FDM) tool jointly developed by Teledyne and Airbus to assist operators with their flight operations, safety management, and aircraft maintenance programs.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 24 July 2010. Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced that its Primus Apex integrated avionics suite has received Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the new Viking Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft.

 Unmanned systems, military and commercial avionics systems, and solder-mounted applications require power and data connectors that are lighter and smaller than ever before, yet long-standing military specifications do not account for these reduced size and weight requirements especially regarding standard military circular connectors that link electronics boxes to other boxes or devices.

"NextGen is here!" That statement made by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in late May is a bit hyperbolized, but there can be no doubt that a major building block for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) now officially is here. LaHood's proclamation accompanied an announcement of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) ruling for equipage for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) "Out."

Nine years ago, a U.S. Navy EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft made an unauthorized emergency landing at a Chinese air base on Hainan Island in the People's Republic of China. The stricken electronics intelligence aircraft landed in China after a mid-air collision with a Chinese J-8II jet fighter caused severe damage to the EP-3. While reasons for the incident are in dispute, the so-called "Hainan Island Incident" was perhaps the defining event that brought electronic anti-tamper technology to the forefront of military avionics and electronics planning and development.

WACO, Texas, 28 July 2010. FreeFlight Systems in Waco, Texas, is introducing the RANGR 978 MHz automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast -- better known as ADS-B -- equipment that include ADS-B transmitters, transmitters with wide area augmentation system (WAAS) global positioning system (GPS), transceivers, and transceivers with WAAS GPS.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn., 28 July 2010. Kaman Precision Products-Measuring in Middletown, Conn., is introducing high-precision position sensors and systems for non-contact position and displacement feedback in harsh environments. All Inconel construction makes them suitable for corrosive gas, liquid, and radiation environments. Measurement quality is unaffected by most corrosive gasses and liquids and most other environmental contaminants such as oil, dirt, radiation, and stray RF and magnetic fields.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 23 July 2010. Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) selected avionics and power provider Air Data Inc, in Montreal to design, manufacture, and service aircraft engines powering business, general aviation, and regional aircraft and helicopters.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 21 July 2010. Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP) avionics specialist TTTech in Vienna is introducing the TTP Star Coupler flight assembly that separately protects each branch of a star-topology avionics databus. TTTech is introducing the TTP Star Coupler at the Farnborough International Airshow this week in Farnborough, England. Protecting each branch of an avionics star-topology databus separately enables avionics designers to improve fault isolation and produce architectures with higher availability than traditional bus topologies, TTTech officials say.