Total Value Of The Agreement Rises To $7.2 Billion

The U.S. Air Force announced selection of Lockheed Martin for a fixed-price-type production contract for 22 GPS III Follow-On satellites with a total estimated contract value up to $7.2 billion.

Lightweight, Airborne Imaging System Now Transitions To Official Product Offered By Insitu

The Redkite-I, a wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system designed for the Insitu Integrator unmanned aircraft system (UAS) developed by Logos Technologies, successfully completed its final flight test during the last week of August at the Insitu flight test facilities in Boardman, OR.

State Grant Will Fund A Pilot Program In Orange County, FL

Florida State Senator Linda Stewart has announced that a state grant valued at $75,000 has been secured for a pilot program to use drones to keep tabs on adults with Alzheimer's disease.

Collaboration For Commercial Aviation Brings Together Two Global Leaders In In-Flight Connectivity  

Inmarsat and Panasonic Avionics Corporation have agreed a strategic collaboration, for an initial ten-year period, that enables them to combine their highly complementary market leading services to offer broadband in-flight connectivity ("IFC") paired with high-value solutions and services to customers in the commercial aviation industry worldwide. 

GE Aviation To Invest $80 Million In MRO Facility In Subang

GE Chairman & CEO John Flannery has reaffirmed the company’s continued commitment to Malaysia with a major $80 million investment in GE Engine Services Malaysia (GEESM). Alongside this renewed commitment to the GEESM facility, GE also announced the establishment of the Global IT Service Desk, located at its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

Will Hire 200-300 New Employees To Meet Growing Customer Demands

StandardAero Component Services recently cut the ribbon on a new 206,000 sq. ft. repair facility, directly adjacent to its current 236,000 sq. ft. component repair facility in Cincinnati, nearly doubling its capacity to accommodate rapid growth in customer demands during 2018 and beyond.

Social Media Has A Bit Of Fun At The Airline's Expense

When Cathay Pacific's lates 777 was delivered, there was a glaring error in the plane's livery. "Pacific" was spelled without the "F".

Can Be Included In The Newly-Expanded Americas OnePak

Garmin has added a new navigation database information for South America, now available in the newly-expanded Americas OnePak, which offers coverage in North, Central and South America and provides database updates across all Garmin avionics and a portable in a single aircraft.

Unprecedented Data Volumes To Be Processed In Record Time To Serve Planet Surveillance And Protection

Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales and Leonardo, have announced that it has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide operations, maintenance and upgrade services for the Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS) supporting the Sentinel 2A and 2B Earth observation satellites. The service contract is worth $34 million for the period from May 2018 to December 2021. It is being carried out for the European Commission as part of the Copernicus program, in particular the ground segment subsystem of the Copernicus Space Component (CSC).

OROCA An off-route altitude which provides obstruction clearance with a 1,000 foot buffer in nonmountainous terrain areas and a 2,000 foot buffer in designated mountainous areas within the United States. This altitude may not provide signal coverage from ground-based navigational aids, air traffic control radar, or communications coverage.