Final avionics delivery for C/KC-135 GATM made by Rockwell Collins

Posted by John McHale

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, 14 2011. Rockwell Collins officials announced that the company delivered the final avionics systems for the U.S. Air Force C/KC-135 Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) program.Rockwell Collins, the prime contractor and flight deck systems integrator for the program, provides the GNLU-955 multi-mode receiver, VDL-2000 very high frequency data link capability, SAT-2000 SATCOM radio, CMU-900 communications management unit and the IPC-7000 integrated processing center. The KC-135’s principal mission is air refueling support to U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.Read more >>ADS-B In brings air traffic management to pilots in the cockpit
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