Honeywell to provide GPS/INS navigation avionics for Army and Navy helicopters, aircraft carrier landing systems
May 14, 2010
CLEARWATER, Fla., 14 May 2010.Navigation and guidance systems experts at the Honeywell Inc. Defense & Space Electronic Systems segment in Clearwater, Fla., are providing aircraft navigation systems that combine GPS satellite navigation with inertial navigation technology for U.S. Army and Navy helicopters.
Honeywell won a $6.6 million contract Thursday to supply 81 embedded GPS/inertial navigation systems for the Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior attack helicopter control display system 5 (CDS5) upgrade variants, The Navy/Marine Corps CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy-lift helicopter, and the Navy's AN/SPN-46 precision approach and landing systems aboard aircraft carriers.
Awarding the contract were officials of the 642nd Aeronautical Systems Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
For more information contact Honeywell online at www.sac.honeywell.com.
John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.
