ASHBURN, Va., 14 May 2013. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) engineers have updated the Lockheed Martin Flight Services (LMFS) automation system and Pilot Web Portal to make general aviation safer and more convenient, at no cost to pilots.

CLIFTON, N.J., 13 May 2013. ITT Exelis (NYSE:XLS) won a $9.4 million contract from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth, Texas, to supply the Continuous Wave Illuminator (CWI) subsystem for the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

PHOENIX, 9 May 2013. Avionics systems running the Deos real-time operating system (RTOS) from DDC-I, a supplier of software and services for mission- and safety-critical applications, can now utilize the AMD Radeon E4690 graphics processing unit (GPU) and Core Avionics & Industrial Inc.’s (CoreAVI’s) OpenGL SC display software driver to deliver high-performance embedded OpenGL 2D/3D graphics and streaming video.

PHILADELPHIA, 5 May 2013. U.S. Navy avionics experts are looking to General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Bloomington, Minn., for maintenance and upgrades on six flight computers for the Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler, and AV-8B Harrier strike fighter and electronic warfare combat jets.

BOHEMIA, N.Y., 3 May 2013. Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y., is introducing the AceXtreme bridge device to translate avionics messages in real-time between MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, and Ethernet in any direction, without a host computer.

LINCOLN, Mass., 2 May 2013. Avidyne Corp. in Lincoln, Mass., has received validation from the national aviation agency of Brazil for the Avidyne DFC90 digital autopilot in Cessna 182-single-engine general-aviation aircraft when interfaced with the Evolution Pro primary flight display (PFD) from Aspen Avionics in Albuquerque, N.M.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., 29 April 2013. The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime segment at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., will award a three-year contract to Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to provide spare parts for U.S. Army tactical aircraft navigation avionics systems.

HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, 28 April 2013. Flight deck avionics experts at Fokker Services in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, will install electronic flight bag (EFB) capability on the Airbus A320 fleet of charter, aircraft lease operator Avion Express in Vilnius, Lithuania.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 24 April 2013. Jet fighter avionics designers at the BAE Systems Electronics & Systems Integration segment in Greenlawn, N.Y., will provide 336 AN/APX-125 F-16 Mode 5 advanced identify friend-or-foe (AIFF) units under terms of a $34.3 million U.S. Air Force contract announced late last week.

WATERLOO, Canada, 23 April 2013. Maplesoft has released its MapleSim 6.1 advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform, updated with improved performance, more programmatic analysis and model development tools, and expanded  connectivity options, for helping engineers meet and exceed system-level requirements.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 22 April 2013. LDRA, a provider of safety-critical software verification tools and software best practices, unveils the LDRA Compliance Management System (LCMS), designed to help companies develop the infrastructure to become compliant with DO-178B/C, DO-278A, and DO-254.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah, 21 April 2013. Air Force nuclear missile avionics technicians needed electronic test and measurement equipment to help maintain and upgrade Air Force nuclear weapons systems, particularly the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). They found their solution from Geotest-Marvin Test Systems Inc. in Irvine, Calif.

CHATSWORTH, Calif., 18 April 2013. Aitech Defense Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., is introducing the RTCA-compliant C920 rugged 3U CompactPCI PowerPC-based single-board computer for high-reliability DO-178 and DO-254-based manned aircraft, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., 17 April 2013. Air traffic control (ATC) experts at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., are expected to release a formal industry solicitation over the next few weeks to develop computer simulations of integrated, real-time, and fast-time gate-to-gate airline operations and their performance using real-world inputs from the National Airspace System.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., 10 April 2013. Embraer Defense and Security engineers have selected Connext DDS (Data Distribution Service) from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) for the software development of its KC-390 military transport aircraft mission computer.

NEWPORT, Isle of Wight, U.K., 6 April 2013. RFEL, a provider of high-performance, electronic video and signal processing solutions, is launching its HALO low-power, real-time, video processing tool for image-based surveillance in counterterrorism, defense, and security applications.

WIRRAL, U.K., 5 April 2013. LDRA, a provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, standards compliance, and test tools, announces the integration of the LDRA tool suite with MATLAB and Simulink, enabling verification of the model at the object code level.

WIRRAL, U.K., 5 April 2013. LDRA, a provider of standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, offers verification of the model via integration with MATLAB and Simulink.