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National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter.
Fast Company October 2009 Tim McKeough	Sikorsky's X2 Technology Doubles Chopper Speed The typical helicopter today chugs along at a respectable 150 miles per hour. With its aptly named X2 Technology, chopper maker Sikorsky hopes to have new helicopters flying nearly twice as fast.
Popular Mechanics November 2009 Logan Ward	10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: X2 Coaxial Rotor Helicopter Innovation promises a brighter future. Here is a look at 10 of this year's brilliant innovators and their inventions.
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 Lawrence & Jenney	The Fastest Helicopter on Earth Sikorsky aims to break the helicopter speed record
IEEE Spectrum September 2010	A Fast Helicopter's Slow Revival David Jenney, a key developer of the Black Hawk helicopter, sees his high-speed ambitions fulfilled
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008	Eaton to Supply CH-53K Helicopter Cockpit Control Panels, Dimming Controllers Eaton personnel will provide the lighted control-panel support hardware for five helicopter ship sets, as well as system development test sets, during the development of the military heavy-lift helicopter.
National Defense August 2007 Frank Colucci	'Sandblaster' Gives Helicopter Pilots Hope for Safer Landings As early as this fall, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will be testing a new landing system for military helicopters that promises safer flying in brownouts.
National Defense July 2014 Valerie Insinna	Tiltrotor Sales Unlikely to Take Off, Industry Veteran Says Sergei Sikorsky is skeptical that tiltrotor aircraft will take the place of conventional helicopters.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005	Marines test helicopters with Goodrich tools Avionics engineers in the U.S. Marine Corps are using the Integrated Mechanical Diagnostics Health and Usage Management System as a diagnostic tool for CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters.
Popular Mechanics October 15, 2009 Joe Hasler	X2 Helicopter Gurus Pay Homage to Engineering Inspirations The team that designed the world's fastest helicopter explain how they got into the biz.
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Taking Off Upgrades and a surge of new U.S. military orders should make the next 10 years a busy decade for rotorcraft manufacturers, according to a recent study by Forecast International Inc.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 David Schneider	Helicopters Go Electric Electric flight takes on the final frontier
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	Manufacturers: Technology Will Make Rotorcraft Faster, Safer The Pentagon's investment in rotorcraft science and technology has decreased dramatically over the past 25 years, but companies have been tinkering around in their own shops trying to fill innovation gaps.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John McHale	Army helicopter upgrades on pace after cancellation of new rotorcraft program Upgrades planned for the UH-60M Black Hawk and Kiowa Warrior -- the armed version of the OH-58D helicopter.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	European Helicopters Look to Take Off in U.S. Military Market At a helicopter exposition in Orlando last month, CEOs of European manufacturers made it clear: They are both partners and competitors of their U.S. counterparts.
National Defense July 2005 Frank Colucci	Helicopter Suppliers Must Modernize, Says Defense Industrial Policy Chief The Defense Department predicts that military helicopter suppliers will recover from the current slump in aircraft production if they invest in new manufacturing technologies.
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright	U.S. Helicopter Suppliers Fear Losing Innovation War The military helicopter business is booming, but the industry mostly is making money fixing up and maintaining the Army's aging fleet. Hardly any Pentagon contracts these days pursue new aircraft designs.
National Defense August 2014 Eric Braganca	Affordable Options Available to Upgrade Military Helicopters While many portions of the defense budget are shrinking, the portion allocated to purchasing helicopters is falling through the floor over the next few years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Letter In previous coverage of new developments at Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, the "build vs. buy" issue was inadvertently left out of the published article, possibly leaving the reader with an erroneous impression.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009	Curtiss-Wright Debuts FPGA-Based VITA 57 Embedded Computer The ADC513 is designed for demanding military embedded systems that involve direct RF down conversion, digital video surveillance, military signals intelligence, satellite communications, and software-defined radio applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John Keller	Curtiss-Wright Consolidates Company Acquisitions Into 'Centers of Excellence' The Gastonia, N.C.-based provider of sensors and motion control, is strengthening their company's presence in the embedded computer market by consolidating several well-known brand names.
National Defense May 2006 Robert H. Williams	`Active Interceptor' Will Lighten Helo Pilots' Workload Army Black Hawk helicopters will be equipped with an active pilot inceptor system.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John Keller	The new breed of major systems integrators Industry consolidation in the printed circuit board business is creating what looks suspiciously like a new breed of major defense-systems integrators.
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Coast Guard Helicopters Gain Firepower As the agency's missions expand in the nation's war on terrorism, Coast Guard mainstays, such as the HH-60 Jayhawk and HH-65 Dolphin, are being equipped with sniper rifles and machine guns.
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons	Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age Many models are expected to reach the end of their operational lives in the 2030 to 2040 timeframe.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006	Sikorsky selects Rockwell Collins' avionics management system for CH-53K The AMS is designed to reduce crew workloads in the demanding tactical environment by providing a communication, navigation, surveillance, and air-traffic-management solution.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John McHale	PennWell launches new e-newsletter, Web site, and show on commercial and military avionics The new Web site delivers avionics information through a news section, a section on features and analysis from staff and the avionics industry, as well as a segment detailing the latest products from avionics suppliers.
National Defense December 2015 Allyson Versprille	Testing for Autonomous Helicopter Moving Forward Sikorsky will demonstrate the first flight of an autonomous UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter by the fourth quarter of 2016, said company executives.
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Jeff Wise	High-Speed Helicopter Revolution: Sikorsky's Dual-Rotor Design Sikorsky Aircraft is testing a chopper that uses two sets of blades that spin in opposite directions as part of a suite of advances that should achieve nearly twice the speed of a conventional helicopter.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	6U VME Computer Boards Based on Freescale QorIQ P4080 Microprocessor Introduced by Curtiss-Wright The computer board provides as many as eight Power Architecture processor cores and data-path acceleration logic, as well as network and peripheral bus interfaces.
National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	Light Military Helicopter Market To Halve by 2028 While opportunities for sales to the civil sector are finally growing after taking a hit post 9/11, the military market will probably shrink over the next decade.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	Ballard Technology releases avionics box The DO-160 validated product is a small, lightweight embedded computer with built-in interfaces for standard peripherals and for various avionics databuses.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009	Curtiss-Wright Offers Open-Standard Video Interface for Military Video Processing The XMC-280 provides an open standard-based, high-performance, real-time embedded systems solution for capturing, compressing, decompressing, and displaying two channels of 1080-pixel, 1920 by 1200-resolution video.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	Sikorsky Designs Helicopters with SGI Servers Engineers will use the SGI computers to analyze digital prototypes in computer-generated wind tunnels and battle scenarios. Sikorsky deployed the SGI solutions to support computer-aided engineering design and analyses of current and future aircraft.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008	Military & Aerospace Electronics Acquires Avionics Conference and Exhibition Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine and its parent company PennWell have purchased the Avionics conference and exhibition, and will operate the Avionics conference next March in Amsterdam.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John McHale	Curtiss-Wright Controls announces another VPX win Officials at Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing won their second military design-in of their VPX products for a U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program application
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	Flight- and Mission-Control Computers for BAMS Maritime Patrol UAV to Come From Curtiss-Wright Curtiss-Wright Controls won a contract from Northrop Grumman to provide the Advanced Mission Management System (AMMS) for a maritime patrol variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk long-range, high-altitude UAV.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale	U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their solution is open architecture.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	European Helicopter Market to Remain Substantial Over the Next Decade The European military helicopter market will remain healthy due to new requirements, particularly in naval applications, coupled with the need to replace large numbers of surviving airframes dating from the 1960s and 1970s.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Aircraft Fleet Modernization Gains Momentum During the next six years, the Army will procure 1,000 rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. In addition, the service plans to restore 1,655 Black Hawks, Chinooks, and Apaches as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense July 2015 Stew Magnuson	King Stallion Heavy Lift Program On Track for 2019, Say Marines The Echo-models of the Marine Corps' primary heavy lift helicopter are aging, and routine work to keep them flying must be done as the service awaits the new CH-53K King Stallion, which is scheduled to enter the force in 2019.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 John McHale	Embedded Computing Specialist Curtiss-Wright to Acquire VMETRO The acquisition would make the Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) division even more of a giant in the defense embedded electronics market.
National Defense January 2005 Frank Colucci	Sensors Aboard Helicopters Can Help Predict Parts Failures Health-and-usage monitoring systems (HUMS) now are in development for the Army's new UH-60M Black Hawk and Block III AH-64D Apache helicopters. HUMS help track the wear and tear of aircraft components.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	Army wants ideas from industry on new avionics for manned and unmanned helicopters The Army is asking industry for ideas on how companies and Army agencies could work together to develop and demonstrate new helicopter avionics concepts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007	Curtiss-Wright PowerPC 3U CompactPCI Single-Board Computer Supports PMC I/O The board, available in conduction- and air-cooled versions, uses the Freescale Altivec-enhanced 7448 PowerPC processor, and is for space- and weight-constrained COTS systems for military and aerospace applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	In Brief Radstone Technology gets new headquarters... Northrup Grummans improves DTS... Curtiss-Wright acquires Primagraphics... Air Force awards system-networking contract... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale	Proposed GE Fanuc/SBS merger creates mixed feelings among industry observers The merger might spark more consolidation by making other companies look for further acquisitions or mergers to be number one in the market.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009	Curtiss-Wright Offers Single-Board Computer Based on Intel Core 2 Duo Processor The VPX6-1952 rugged 6U VPX single-board computer is well suited to space-, weight-, and power-limited aerospace and defense applications.
National Defense October 2006 Robert H. Williams	Air Force, Guard Aircraft Gain Defensive Clout A variety of Air Force and National Guard fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters are benefiting from software that is making possible on-board, integrated defensive avionics systems.