JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J., 24 March 2012. U.S. Navy shipboard air traffic control experts needed flat-panel displays for the AN/TPX-42A(V) shipboard air traffic control system aboard naval amphibious assault ships. They found their solution from Barco Inc. in Duluth, Ga.

ROCKVILLE, Md., 23 March, 2012. DRS Defense Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DRS Technologies, Inc., announced that its Intelligence, Communications and Avionics Solutions (ICAS) business unit received a contract award from Boeing’s Defense Space & Security group to integrate its Intelligence Broadcast Receiver Block 2 (IBR2) tactical terminal onto the KC-46A Tanker aircraft.

RESTON, Va., 23 March 2012. Rolls-Royce has received recent contracts for over $275 million to provide support services for the U.S. Armed Services.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. Avionics Europe, the annual gathering of the avionics industry, drew more than 1,000 avionics professionals to Munich for a two-day conference program covering commercial and defence avionics technologies and challenges.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. Avionics experts from Teledyne Controls, Sagem Defense Securite, and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. described the importance of the quick and accurate acquisition and exploitation of aircraft diagnostics data, as well as presented promising modern avionics diagnostics technologies and methodologies.

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J., 22 March 2012. U.S. Navy officials are buying seven tethered airships for the U.S. Army's Persistent Ground Surveillance Systems (PGSS) program from aerostat producer TCOM LLP in Columbia, Md., under terms of a $13.4 million contract awarded Wednesday from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.

TOKYO, Japan, 22 March 2012. Eurocopter Japan has received an order for two new AS365 N3+ Dauphins from All Nippon Helicopter (ANH) to replace two rotary-wing aircraft from its existing fleet for use in electronic newsgathering missions on behalf of Japanese national broadcaster, NHK.

ANNAPOLIS, Md., 22 March 2012. ARINC Aerospace announced that it has completed a Programmed Depot Maintenance (PDM) project on a C-130H Hercules transport aircraft for the Indonesian Air Force.

MUNICH, 21 March 2012. Executives from Airbus, Inmarsat, Nokia Siemens, EADS Innovations Works, and Esterel Technologies highlighted, during the Avionics Europe 2012 conference program in Munich, the importance of fast and reliable voice and data communications to the efficient management of global air traffic.

MUNICH, Germany, 21 March 2012. Transforming the world's air traffic control (ATC) systems to accommodate commercial and military aircraft, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proceeding, but is proving to be difficult, says the military representative to the European air traffic management (ATM) authority EUROCONTROL.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., 21 March 2012. ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) has been awarded a $32 million contract by Lockheed Martin to build the navigation payloads for the Global Positioning System III (GPS III) space vehicles three and four.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., 21 March, 2012. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD), China Lake announced a contract award to Albemarle Corp. to complete its first biojet fuel production run based on bio n-butanol provided by Cobalt Technologies.

SAO PAULO, Brazil, 20 March 2012. GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing unit of GE, announced delivery of a new Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Panama’s Copa Airlines to expand its fleet.

Marignane, 20 March 2012. Eurocopter India, a subsidiary of Eurocopter, announced its first bookings in India for 2012. Comprising light and medium class helicopters, the bookings included an AS350 B3e, an EC135 and an EC155.

Nashua, N.H. 19 March, 2012. The theme of Avionics Europe 2012 this week is Common Sky: Operating In One Airspace, and with the show content we're bringing you some of the world's leading experts on what commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft operators need to know about the upcoming era of modern air traffic management in which civil and military manned aircraft, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, will fly side-by-side in controlled airspace.

SAN JOSE, 19 March 2012. LynuxWorks Inc., a provider of embedded software, has joined the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium, an industry-government collaboration managed by The Open Group and intended to provide a common airborne computing environment for multiple branches of the U.S. military.

NORCROSS, Ga., 19 March 2012. Officials at Photo Science, a geospatial services firm in Lexington, K.Y., have purchased a Leica ALS70-HP airborne laser scanner from Leica Geosystems Inc. Photo Science, now with a total of four Leica LiDAR systems owned, has also contracted Leica to upgrade one of its existing ALS60 sensors later this year.

GUNSKIRCHEN, Austria, 19 March 2012. The new Rockwell Collins electronic dual-channel Engine Control Unit (ECU) is featured on BRP’s Rotax 912 iS piston engine for light sport aircraft (LSA). Rockwell Collins’ ECU is the first to meet aerospace design assurance standards for certification in the LSA market.

SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, 18 March 2012. Aircraft manufacturer Embraer in São José Dos Campos, Brazil, has received type certification from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in India for the Embraer large-sized Legacy 650 business jet, which enables aircraft operators to register and operate the aircraft in India. The Legacy 650 is the sixth Embraer executive jet to be certified in India, company officials say.