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Rockwell International‘s [ROK] new Collins Flight2 Systems product line provides autonomous traffic capability, weather and terrain awareness, seamless navigation and guidance from take off to landing for fixed- and rotary-wing...

Racal Avionics‘s contract to upgrade all of the Royal Navy’s front-line helicopters with GPS has increased in value, the company said. The new contract will make the total contract worth...

A new study from Mountain View, Calif.-based Frost & Sullivan titled "World Airport Ground Equipment Markets" envisions a huge market for GPS-based landing systems. The study says that the biggest...

Trimble Navigation’s [TRMB] 8100 GPS Navigation Management System received the FAA’s Supplemental Type Certification. The units are being installed in Eastern Australia Airlines‘ aircraft. (Lea Ann McNabb, Trimble, 408/481-7808.)

Navigation Technologies (NavTech) recently licensed its navigable map data base to Comdata RoTec for use in a routing and scheduling system. The NavTech products used are LoadPlanner, ServicePlanner and R.S.V.P....

It used to be one the larger GPS markets–maybe the largest at one time–but increased competition and regulatory issues have made recent commercial and consumer marine market growth one of...

Litton Guidance & Control Systems division [LIT] recently won a contract for replacement navigation equipment for the U.K. Royal Navy’s Sea Harrier ship-borne aircraft. The company’s LN-100G INS/GPS product, which...

The first test of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) with GPS guidance apparently was a bust, reports GPNN’s sister publication DEFENSE DAILY. The U.S. Air Force said that the...

Henniker, N.H.-based MPN Components Inc.’s new GPS Pro Map features software from Blue Marble Geographics. The unit is compatible with most GPS handheld receivers for office or field mapping applications,...

The Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association’s (CEMA) 1997 International Winter Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will feature an ITS pavilion. The Winter CES show will be Jan. 9-12 at the Sands Expo...