Jane Edwards

Rockwell Collins has secured a contract to develop a set of interfaces intended to help the Naval Air Systems Command meet future Required Navigation Performance Area Navigation requirements and comply with the Future Airborne Capability Environment technical standard. The company will demonstrate its Flight Management System software offering on military computer hardware across various configurations […] More

The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has modified its agreement with geospatial software provider Esri in an effort to consolidate duplicate contracts for software licenses. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of the integrated technology services office at GSA’s FAS, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the new deal with Esri is part of the […] More

A business unit of United Technologies Corp. has handed to the U.S. Navy the first sonar dome window for integration with the service branch’s cruisers, destroyers and other vessels under a five-year contract. The UTC Aerospace Systems-built rubber-based sonar dome window works to protect the naval ship’s sonar transducer array and help the vessel detect […] More

ArmorSource is scheduled to deliver combat helmets to the U.S. Army this spring after it concluded the first article testing on the protective equipment. The Lightweight Advanced Combat Helmet AS-505 is designed to protect the human body from back-face deformation and fragmentation and projectile threats, ArmorSource said Tuesday. ArmorSource CEO Yoav Kapah said the 3-pound helmet […] More