WASHINGTON, 7 April 2013. Airborne weapons experts at the Boeing Co. got the go-ahead last week to start building add-on kits for the U.S. Navy Mark 54 lightweight torpedo that will enable the Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol jet to launch these weapons from altitudes as high as 30,000 feet and attack enemy submarines from long ranges.

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz., 22 March 2013. The aerospace embedded computing industry is stuck temporarily in the economic doldrums because of massive uncertainty over the future U.S. defense budget, federal sequestration, and a 22 percent drop in defense spending during the fourth quarter of 2012, but bad times may not last for long, says report released this week.

KEYPORT, Wash., 24 May 2013. U.S. Navy avionics experts needed 100 spare DC-DC converter power supplies for the aircraft flight control systems of the Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion long-range maritime patrol aircraft and the Sikorsky H-53 heavy-lift helicopter. They are recommending a solution from Pico Electronics Inc. in Pelham, N.Y.

GENEVA, Switzerland, 23 May 2013. VistaJet International and Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) have agreed to a record-setting enrollment of 50 Bombardier Global 5000 and Global 6000 aircraft onto JSSI's Platinum Engine and APU hourly cost maintenance programs. The long-term agreement is valued at over $205 million based on JSSI 2013 list prices. The aircraft are part of VistaJet's largest order in aviation history placed in November 2012.

MEXICO CITY, 23 May 2013. Aeromexico, Mexico's global airline, becomes the first national airline in the country to operate the Embraer 175, with its addition of three of the modern planes to its aircraft fleet.

PALMDALE, Calif., 22 May 2013. The MQ-4C Triton unmanned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft platform, operated by Northrop Grumman and U.S. Navy personnel on the ground in Palmdale, Calif., achieved its first flight.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 18 May 2013. RFMW Ltd. is providing design and sales support for Skyworks diode products, well suited to military systems, applications, and environments.