Actualité aéronautique

Trois sociétés européennes sont en concurrence pour redévelopper des terrains d'aéroport canadiens

transmise le 15 février 2011 par PRNewswire

Trois équipes européennes - SWECO de Stockholm en Suède, KCAP de Rotterdam aux Pays-Bas et Foster and Partners de Londres au Royaume-Uni - figurent parmi les cinq équipes luttant pour fournir le plan directeur du redéveloppement des terrains d'aéroport du centre-ville d'Edmonton, au Canada.

ASRC Aerospace Employee John Morton Receives National Professional Achievement Award

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

ASRC Aerospace employee John Morton has been selected as one of America’s top professionals by U.S. Black Engineer and Technology magazine. Morton will receive the 2011 Emerald Honors Award for Professional Achievement during ceremonies Feb. 17 at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards annual conference in Washington, D.C. BEYA recognizes the achievements of diverse leaders and rewards excellence in science, technology, engineering and math.

Tel-Instrument Electronics Corp (“TIK”) Announces Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2011

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

Tel-Instrument Electronics Corp. : today announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2010.

Three European Firms Compete to Redevelop Canadian Airport Lands

transmise le 15 février 2011 par PRNewswire

Three European teams - SWECO from Stockholm, Sweden; KCAP from Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and Foster and Partners from London, UK - are among five teams vying to provide the master plan to redevelop city centre airport lands in Edmonton, Canada.

BAE Systems Completes Purchase of L-1’s Intelligence Services Group

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

BAE Systems has completed its acquisition of L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc.’s Intelligence Services Group (ISG), which is comprised of SpecTal, LLC, Advanced Concepts, Inc., and McClendon, LLC, for a purchase price of approximately $297 million. The completed transaction, initially announced in September, will enhance BAE Systems’ ability to effectively meet the growing needs of government intelligence, defense and security customers.

Strategy Analytics: Global Defense Industry Stabilizes in 2010

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

As the financial crisis hit home, defense departments have also had to take a long hard look at expenditure. The impact of these decisions started to hit the defense industry in 2009, when revenues dropped 11 percent and profitability was nearly cut in half, dropping below three percent for the first time in seven years. Analysis from the Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS) service report, “Defense Industry Profitability Gains in 2010,” shows that defense industry performance stabilized its financial performance for the year.

Acorn Growth Companies LC Announces Acquisition of Avionics Company

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

Acorn Growth Companies LC, the aerospace and defense-focused private equity firm, announced that the company is adding the Kirkpatrick Electronics business to its portfolio of companies.

Festo Introduces CoDeSys Embedded Controller CPX-CEC Integration of Electric Drives, Pneumatics, and IO

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

Festo has launched a powerful CoDeSys embedded controller for use with its renowned CPX series of multifunctional control terminals. CoDeSys is an IEC 61131-3 compatible programming environment. The controller immediately benefits current users of IEC 61131-3, since they can port over their existing code, libraries, function blocks, etc., reducing programming time. New users can also benefit by the availability of six programming languages provided by CoDeSys, selecting one that is most comfortable for the programmer in a particular application.

Triumph Group Announces New Vice President

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

Triumph Group, Inc. today announced that Elisabeth H. Barrett has been appointed Vice President-Human Resources of Triumph Group effective immediately. In this role, Ms. Barrett will continue to maintain responsibility for the company’s human resources function.

AECOM hydro project tops annual ranking of Canada’s biggest infrastructure investments

transmise le 15 février 2011 par Business Wire

The Romaine Complex A Renewable Energy Project, a CAD$6.5 billion hydroelectric facility designed by AECOM and located in Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec, Canada, is the number-one ranked project on ReNew Canada’s list of the Top 100 Biggest Infrastructure Projects in Canada. AECOM has 26 projects on the annual list, which has measured and tracked infrastructure development in Canada since 2007.