Boeing has launched a new center in Alabama that is designed to help academic institutions and research partners develop technologies in collaboration with the company. Engineers and technicians will work together at the center to conduct research on simulation, analytics, chemicals,  materials, propulsion, avionics systems, sensors, communication and cybersecurity, Boeing said Friday. Steve Swaine, Boeing research […] More

Lockheed Martin has finished the construction of an Orion crew module and crew module adapter mockup at the company’s Littleton, Colorado-based facility. Engineers at the Orion test laboratory will next configure the mockup with harnessing, electrical power, sensors, avionics and flight software, Lockheed said Wednesday. The crew module and adapter mockup is designed to check the […] More

Rockwell Collins will work with NASA to develop a conceptual cockpit display that will depict a sonic boom over land under a two-year contract in support of the space agency’s High Speed Project. The company said Thursday its Advanced Technology Center will collaborate with the Armstrong Flight Research Center for efforts to help pilots of future supersonic civil transport aircraft mitigate a sonic boom’s […] More

Ensco Avionics Canada has secured a contract from an Ontario-based company to equip a modernized ground vehicle with an automated driver interface using its commercial-off-the-shelf software development toolkit. The company said Friday its IData Tool Suite can help experts design human machine interface applications that can run on cockpit displays with DO-178C certifications and ground, training and […] More

Orbital ATK will work with United Launch Alliance on the launch of NASA‘s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft by providing the third stage to augment ULA’s Delta IV Heavy rocket. The third-stage rocket component features avionics, attitude control and inertial navigation functions and uses the STAR 48BV motor for propulsion, Orbital ATK said Friday. It will help bring SPP to orbit around […] More

CAE has provided the Royal Australian Navy with simulation technology products designed to train pilots on how to operate an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter. The company said Wednesday its MH-60R tactical operational flight training system and avionics maintenance and weapons load trainer platform are installed at the HMAS Albatross naval facility in New South Wales. “CAE […] More

Lockheed Martin has moved into the assembly, test and launch operations phase of spacecraft the company is building for a NASA asteroid research mission. NASA aims to launch the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer to collect samples from the Bennu asteroid, Lockheed said Tuesday. “We’re installing the electronics in the next few […] More

Northrop Grumman has ordered a $2 million test program set from Kitron AS to evaluate the avionics system of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter. Kitron will develop interface test assemblies that work with Lockheed Martin’s LM-STAR test system under the four-year contract, Kitron said Monday. Northrop will use the test suite […] More

Thales will provide its i-FMS200 flight management system software to Northrop Grumman as part of the latter’s contract with the U.S. Army to upgrade its UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter fleet. Thales said Wednesday Northrop will integrate i-FMS200 into the avionics mission equipment package of the Black Hawk upgrade, which will be called UH‑60V. “This is a further expansion of our presence in the […] More

Lockheed Martin has ordered radar systems from Northrop Grumman for Lockheed’s project to upgrade Taiwan’s fleet of F-16 fighter jets. Northrop is scheduled to deliver the first lot of 142 APG-83 beam radars to Lockheed in 2016, Northrop said Monday. The fire control radar is designed to provide air-to-air and air-to-ground radar functions to F-16 planes. Jeff […] More

Frank Spina, a former manufacturing and supply chain executive at a Selex ES subsidiary in Turkey, has joined Northrop Grumman as managing director of the company’s Italy-based navigation systems business. Northrop said Friday Spina will oversee programs and business operations in Italy, such as the delivery of integrated avionics systems and attitude heading reference systems to customers worldwide. […] More

ATK has installed NASA’s solid rocket motor in a test stand in preparation for the system’s static-fire test scheduled on March 11. The space launch system booster qualification motor will undergo ground testing in Utah at higher temperature to qualify the five-segment motor’s capability to carry humans and cargo across the solar system, ATK said […] More