The activation of a new aviation navigation beacon that will free up acreage at the Little Rock Port is "still on track" to happen Oct. 1, the Port Authority's executive director told board members ...

The Army’s Project Management (PM) Office for Aviation Mission Systems and Architecture (AMSA) received a statement of airworthiness qualification (SAQ) for the EAGLE-M, the Army’s critical next ...

As the efficient use of airspace, runways and fuel requires aircraft to follow increasingly precise trajectories, satellite navigation equipment is becoming a must-have in civil aviation. That was the ...

The Department of the Air Force-MIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator successfully performed the first real-time magnetic navigation (MagNav) demonstration on a C-17A Globemaster III aircraft.

IT’S A FACT. GPS and its brethren global (and regional) navigation satellite systems are susceptible to outages caused by both natural and engineered events. Several reports issued in the past couple ...

Samantha Sharif has become directo of industry affairs for the Netherlands-based Civil Aviation Navigation Services Organization. She succeeds Alison Macmaster, who has returned to U.K.-based NATS.

The increasing prevalence of GNSS spoofing in commercial aviation poses significant safety concerns and highlights the need for robust alternative positioning, navigation and timing (A-PNT) sources.

On 2 March, the European Commission launched the EGNOS “Safety-of-Life” service for aviation. The EGNOS system enables precision approaches and renders air navigation safer as well as helps reducing ...

Even though most of today's aircraft rely heavily on GPS for navigation, the technology is far from infallible. That's why an alternative system is in the works, which may soon allow planes to ...