CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., 4 May 2012. Aircraft manufacturer Embraer S.A. in São José Dos Campos, Brazil, needed rugged data acquisition and recorder technology for the Legacy 500 business jet. They found their solution from Curtiss-Wright Controls Avionics & Electronics in City of Industry, Calif.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, 3 May 2012. Hundreds of avionics engineers and aviation industry executives gathered at the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) and Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) General Session in Anchorage, Alaska. Air transport professionals hashed out, over four days, a wealth of current and upcoming avionics challenges, including: NextGen and SESAR equipage, intellectual property and export licensing, electronic flight bags, data links, and more.

NASHUA, N.H., 25 April 2012. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Designated Engineering Representative Joe Wlad is answering questions and offering insight and advice to avionics developers about RTCA’s DO-178C objectives. Register for the free Webinar now.

NASHUA, N.H., 25 April 2012. Join the staff of Avionics Intelligence for a free Webinar on meeting DO-178C objectives in avionics designs tomorrow, Thurs., 26 April at 11 am EDT.

LONDON, Ontario, 18 April 2012. General aviation specialist Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc. in London, Ontario, has received certification for the company's regular and special mission versions of the four-seat DA42 NG twin-engine diesel-powered aircraft from Transport Canada in Ottawa, the Canadian government transportation authority.

WASHINGTON, 18 April 2012. NASA has released version 2.0 of its Open Government Plan, upgraded with open data sharing, open source development, and a variety of technology acceleration efforts.

PHOENIX, 5 April 2012. “The availability of verification evidence and proven certifiability are key for [the avionics] market,” says Greg Rose, vice president of marketing and product management at DDC-I in Phoenix. DDC-I staff and solutions, including its Deos real-time operating system (RTOS) are laser focused at serving the DO-178 safety-critical avionics market, he says.  

PHOENIX, 5 April 2012. DDC-I’s commercial real-time operating system (RTOS) products support the ARINC Specification 653, Part 4 strict subset. The subset is specifically defined for systems that do not require the size, complexity, and features of the full specification, such as a majority of Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) on next-generation aircraft.

WASHINGTON, 4 April 2012. Paul Ryan won the 2012 Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) Lifetime Achievement Award during the opening of the 55th annual AEA international convention and trade show in Washington, D.C.

LONDON, 27 March 2012. The aviation security market has evolved in response to new threats. As demand for air travel continues to grow annually, governments and aviation enforcement authorities face the need to adopt strict safety measures to counter terrorist threats before they occur whilst limiting the inconvenience faced by the passenger. Existing threats, rising passenger numbers, and airport expansion projects mean that the global aviation security market will reach $22.3 billion in 2012, according to Visiongain analysts.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 26 March 2012. The LDRA Certification Services (LCS) segment of LDRA Ltd. in Wirral, England, is introducing FAA/EASA certification safety-critical software verification tools for avionics software development that must meet the requirements of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., 26 March 2012. Behlman Electronics Inc., a provider of power products for military, industrial, and commercial shipboard, airborne, and mobile applications, has won an additional order for its Model 00389 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) power supplies for U.S. Navy’s airborne anti-submarine and anti-ship surveillance and targeting systems.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. MEN Micro Inc., a provider of embedded computing and input/output (I/O) solutions for mission-critical industrial, mobile, and harsh environment applications, has released its first single-board computer (SBC) based on the PICMG CPCI-S.0 CompactPCI Serial specification. 

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. MEN Micro is drawing attention on the Avionics Europe 2012 exhibition floor with several new product introductions, as well as a presentation on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computers in safety-critical avionics.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. CoreAVI announced the twenty-fifth avionics design win for its temperature-screened AMD Radeon E4690 GPU.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. Aitech is demonstrating its off-the-shelf flexible compact computer systems at the Avionics Europe 2012 exhibition in Munich.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. Presagis and Aeroconseil, a subsidiary of AKKA Technologies and an international provider of aircraft engineering and air transport services, have teamed to deliver a powerful, combined solution consisting of expert consulting services and solutions able to be leveraged from cockpit design through to final certification.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. Presagis, a provider of commercial off-the shelf (COTS) modeling, simulation, and embedded graphics software, have signed a reseller agreement with Flexible Software Solutions. As a result, Presagis now resells Flexible Software Solutions’ off-the-shelf User Application Accelerator (UA2) and User Application Emulator (UA Emulator), which work exclusively with the Presagis VAPS XT ARINC 661 module, for developing end-to-end embedded ARINC 661 systems.

MUNICH, 21 March 2012. A leading avionics supplier has completed initial test flights of its upgraded rotorcraft containing DO-178B-certifiable code and ARINC 661-compliant displays generated by Presagis VAPS XT-178 HMI software, as well as the VAPS XT-178 ARINC 661 module, according to a Presagis representative. Presagis VAPS XT-178 CertKit was used to support the certification process.