MITRE Corp. and Dubai Air Navigation Services will jointly research and develop tools to help manage the aviation infrastructure and air traffic control system in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The collaborative undertaking includes airspace design, technology sharing, safety evaluation and perfomance-based navigation procedures development, MITRE said Tuesday. Both parties signed a five-year framework agreement at an […] More

Saudi Arabia’s national guard ministry plans to award a contract in September 2014 for maintenance work on 60 helicopters stationed in the country’s capital of Riyadh. QinetiQ North America said Thursday it is a member of a Northrop Grumman-led team competing for that contract and additional members include the PAE-owned subsidiary DS2, AAR and Vinnell Arabia. […] More

Nathan Manning has joined Eaton‘s aerospace group as vice president and general manager of the fluid and electrical distribution division. Manning will be based in Fort Worth, Texas and will report directly to Aerospace Group President Uday Yadav, the company announced Tuesday. Manning joins the company from serving as the president and CEO of Shanghai, China-based […] More

China-based Chongqing General Aviation has purchased four Bell Helicopter-built aircraft to for parapublic missions such as search and rescue, firefighting and other disaster management efforts. Chris Jaran, managing director for Bell Helicopter in China, said Friday the two Bell 412EPI and two Bell 407GX aircraft are intended to support the Chongqing fire protection bureau. “We needed aircraft with capabilities above […] More

Airbus and a Singapore-based research agency have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore areas of mutual interest such as data analytics.  The partnership with Singapore’s agency for science, technology and research is intended to help customers manage fuel efficiency through new methods of operational data analysis, Airbus said Feb. 10. Asia-Pacific region business accounts […] More

Thales Raytheon Systems has sold a set of GroundMaster 200 radars to Singapore, adding to that country’s land-based air defense systems highlighted at the Singapore Air zdhow, AINonline reported Friday. Chris Pocock writes the Raytheon-Thales Group joint venture designed the 3D digital radar system to transmit signals in the S-band for target detection at any altitude. […] More

DynCorp International has been selected to receive the Diamond Award for Excellence from the Federal Aviation Administration for the second consecutive year. Diamond Awards are presented to companies of which 100 percent of all eligible maintenance technicians complete FAA aircraft systems training in systems and regulations over one year, DynCorp announced Monday. The company was […] More

World Wide Technology Inc. has deployed its disaster recovery system that consolidates data and voice systems at the Kansas City International Airport’s aviation department. Under the partnership, WWT deployed its Vblock Systems Infrastructure Platform to provide KCI with consolidated and virtualized systems, WWT announced. The Vblock system was used to establish a disaster recovery offering […] More

Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager of the civil business within Lockheed Martin‘s Information Systems and Global Solutions line, has been selected to receive the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year award from the Career Communications Group. The group recognized Hill for her 27-year career in engineering and leadership roles at Lockheed Martin […] More

Max Crumit has been appointed to serve as the new strategic project development director in the transportation business at CH2M Hill. In his new role, Crumit will handle the development of new international strategic opportunities for the unit’s aviation, bridge, highway, ports and rail market transportation offerings, CH2M Hill announced Monday. Crumit was most recently the […] More

A-T Solutions Inc. was awarded a $6.5 million five-year firm-fixed contract to assess and recommend the best security practices to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Under the security auditing program, the company will provide the Port Authority’s security managers with a “repeatable, scalable and proven methodology” for conducting security audits, A-T […] More

Jianmin Cui has been named sales director for China at Cobham as the Denmark-based satellite communications company seeks to grow its presence in China’s general aviation market, AIN Online reported Tuesday.  Charles Alcock writes that Cui will focus the company’s air transport sector and its main product, the Aviator SwiftBroadband series of communications systems. Cui […] More