PALM SPRINGS, Calif., 15 Oct. 2012. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] flight services (LMFS) has announced the launch of the automated flight service station (AFSS) pilot web portal and the new adverse condition alerting service (ACAS).

ASHBURN, Va., 12 Oct. 2012. Embedded computing specialist Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., are joining the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium in an effort to help cut the costs and reduce maintenance requirements of military avionics systems by increasing competition among defense contractors, reusing avionics components, and promoting rapid technology insertion for avionics upgrades.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., 9 Oct. 2012. The Microsemi Corp. SoC Products Group in Mountain View, Calif., is introducing the SmartFusion2 system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate array (FPGA) family to address advanced security, high reliability and low power requirements in avionics, military, industrial, communications, and medical applications.

DULLES, Va., 5 Oct. 2012. Metron Aviation won two task orders under the Systems Engineering 2020 (SE-2020) vehicle to develop advanced environmental tools for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, 24 Sept. 2012. Avionics technicians at Fokker Services in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, will install Apple iPad-based electronic flight bags (EFBs) on the 21 Airbus A320, A330 and A340 passenger jetliners of Sri Lanka flag carrier SriLankan Airlines based in Katunayake, Sri Lanka.

BOSTON, 20 Sept. 2012. Software design tools expert LDRA Technology Inc. in San Bruno, Calif., is introducing LDRAcover, a stand-alone code coverage tool that verifies the source code of an application has been structurally tested.

TETERBORO, N.J. 16 Sept. 2012. The charter group of Meridian Companies at Teterboro Airport, N.J., has deployed Aviator 200 airborne broadband system aboard its 16-passenger Gulfstream IV business jet, the largest-capacity business jet in the Meridian fleet.

CAIRO, 16 Sept. 2012. Officials of the National Air Navigation Services Co. (NANSC) in Cairo needed to modernize aeronautical information services (AIS) in Egypt’s air traffic control (ATC) centers as well as at all airports of the Egypt. They found their solution from COMSOFT GmbH in Karlsruhe, Germany.

HANOVER, N.H., 16 Sept. 2012. Daat Research Corp. in Hanover, N.H., is introducing enhancements for its Coolit computational fluid dynamics (CFD) thermal-analysis software for electronics that boost accuracy and enrich the software's interface.

SAN BRUNO, Calif., 11 Sept. 2012. LDRA, a provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has joined The Open Group’s Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium and announced its commitment to bring its verification and standards conformance expertise to the FACE community.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., 10 Sept. 2012. DCS Corp has completed its acquisition of Infoscitex Corp. (IST), thereby expanding its service offerings in modeling, simulation, and analysis, human biodynamics research, advanced manned and unmanned air vehicle systems, material science solutions, software development, and cyber-domain techniques.

SEATTLE, Sept. 8, 2012. Boeing [NYSE: BA] has announced that Qantas will be the launch customer for the Boeing onboard performance tool (OPT) for iPad. The OPT gives pilots the ideal speeds and engine settings for any aircraft, with options that include different types of weather and runways. It helps to create gains in efficiency, range and payload.

MUNICH, 5 Sept. 2012. RF and microwave analytics specialist Rohde & Schwarz in Munich is introducing a communications intelligence (COMINT) system for airborne deployment in military missions, border protection, or maritime rescue operations.

RENO, Nev., 4 Sept. 2012. TEWS Technologies introduces its TXMC375, a conduction-cooled switched mezzanine card (XMC)-compatible module with eight channels of high-performance RS232/RS422/RS485 programmable asynchronous serial interfaces with P14 I/O, for applications in transportation, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), communications, and process control.

EAST GREENWICH, R.I., 27 Aug. 2012. The founder and chief operating officer (COO) of Vector Software Inc., a provider of dynamic automated test tools for embedded software applications headquartered in East Greenwich, R.I., objects to recent article and clarifies the difference between “testing” and static analysis, as well as the value of finding errors and defects in software code. 

SAN FRANCISCO, 24 Aug. 2012. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) software developers working on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover used Coverity technology to test and ensure the reliability of mission-critical flight software that guided Curiosity’s landing on Mars.

TIPTREE, England, 24 Aug. 2012. Commsoft, a developer of aviation engineering and maintenance systems, won a three-year contract with bmi Regional, a regional airline in the United Kingdom, for the company’s OASES (Open Aviation Strategic Engineering System).

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS, 22 Aug. 2012. Product lifecycle management software tools are evolving to meet rising volumes of software and requirements-based testing standards. The increased volume of software in aerospace and defense applications has created a demand for software that can trace software problems back to their source and make way for product lines based on similar hardware and different software.

BOHEMIA, N.Y., 19 Aug. 2012. Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y., is introducing introduces a line of ARINC 429/717 avionics databus interface cards with advanced test features for system integration labs and simulators, production test stands, and system troubleshooting.