McConnell to lead Air Transport Systems; Marrah to head Defense Avionics Systems
PHOENIX, OCT. 23 - Honeywell has named new general managers for two divisions of its Space and Aviation Control business. Both appointments will be effective Jan. 1, 1997.
Walt McConnell will become vice president and general manager of Air Transport Systems, with headquarters in Phoenix. He will replace Don Schwanz who will become president of Space and Aviation Control on Jan. 1.
Bob Marrah will replace McConnell as vice president and general manager of Honeywell's Defense Avionics Systems, based in Albuquerque, N.M. Marrah is currently vice president of Honeywell's Military Avionics Guidance and Navigation Operation in Clearwater, Fla.
A 33-year employee, McConnell has served in a variety of engineering and management positions in Phoenix and Albuquerque. He assumed his current position in 1992. McConnell holds an engineering degree and a master's of business administration, both from Arizona State University.
"Walt has successfully led Defense Avionics through a period of rapid change in the defense market," Schwanz said in announcing the appointment. "He was instrumental in evolving the division into a highly efficient business, organized around customer-focused teams." Earlier this year, McConnell was honored by Industry Week magazine as one of its "unsung heroes" for his leadership style and accomplishments.
Marrah joined Honeywell in Boston in 1965 and has served in technical and management positions with several Honeywell operations. He assumed his current position in 1993. He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.
"Under Bob's leadership, the Guidance and Navigation Operation has been recognized by customers and is known throughout the industry for its high level of product quality, responsiveness and overall performance," Schwanz said. Marrah received the Honeywell Lund Award for outstanding people development in 1992.
Air Transport Systems is the world's leading supplier of integrated flight deck systems and other airborne electronic systems for commercial aircraft. The division employs approximately 2,300 people, including about 1,700 in Phoenix.
Defense Avionics Systems develops and produces integrated cockpits, displays and other systems for military aircraft. The division employs more than 1,200 people, including about 1,100 in Albuquerque and more than 100 in Phoenix.
Space and Aviation Control is comprised of five market-focused divisions: Air Transport Systems; Defense Avionics Systems; Business and Commuter Aviation Systems, in Glendale, Ariz.; Military Avionics, in Minneapolis and Clearwater, Fla.; and Space Systems, in Clearwater. Space and Aviation Control had 1995 sales of about $1.5 billion, approximately 23 percent of Honeywell's total sales for the year
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND, SEPT 3--Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems' Albuquerque manufacturing facility has received ISO 9001-1994 registration for design and manufacture of avionics and flight control systems for military aircraft, excluding software. The division will seek registration of its software quality system in early 1997.
The registration was effective April 19, 1996, from Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance, Ltd. (LRQA), a leading international certification body based in Croydon, United Kingdom, and includes registration by the American National Standards Institute-Registrar Accreditation Board; Raad voor de Certificatie of the Netherlands; the Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ); and the Deutscher Akkreditierungs Rat (DAR) of Germany.
ISO 9000 is a set of quality standards published by the Organisation Internationale de Normalisation, a multinational membership organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization's name translates to "international standards organization," or ISO. The ISO standards serve as guidelines for businesses interested in making sure their processes result in high-quality products. The ISO 9001 part of the series applies to suppliers such as Honeywell that perform design. The ISO 9001 registration achieved by Defense Avionics Systems spans 20 elements related to quality and outlines requirements for documenting and implementing the division's quality philosophy, policies and procedures.
LRQA certified the Defense Avionics Systems facility to ISO 9001 quality standards following an extensive examination of its quality policies, procedures, systems and practices. According to Walt McConnell, vice president and general manager of Defense Avionics Systems, "the in-depth review of our facility and subsequent approval for ISO 9001 registration provides assurance to our customers that the division complies with the highest international quality standards. Achieving this prestigious registration is a credit to each and every employee's efforts to ensure the finest quality for our customers."
Defense Avionics Systems is the first of Honeywell's Space and Aviation Control divisions to achieve the prestigious registration.
Many of the division's potential international customers require ISO 9000 certification as a condition of contract awards, and an increasing number of domestic customers are beginning to require it as well. ISO 9000 is also expected to replace Mil-Q-9858, the military quality standard, late this year-except where Mil-Q-9858 is part of existing contracts. "The trend is that the Defense Department is moving, within the Perry Initiative, toward commercial standards," said Paul Vernagelli, Continuous Improvement team leader at Defense Avionics Systems. ISO 9000 is the best-known set of commercial quality standards.
An independent research study into the benefits of ISO approval in 1993, commissioned by LRQA, revealed significant internal and external benefits for companies that have implemented quality management systems and achieved ISO approval: 90 percent reported improved planning and control, 81 percent improved their levels of customer service, 79 percent cited increased productivity, 69 percent reported improved ability to bid for contracts and 50 percent increased their market share. The survey, "Setting Standards for Better Business," is available from LRQA upon request.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND, SEPT. 3 -- The electronic avionics suite developed by Honeywell for the Boeing CH-47D helicopter became the first "glass cockpit" fielded by a non-US operator of the Chinook when the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) completed formal acceptance, July 8, of seven modernized CH-47Ds equipped with Honeywell's avionics control and management system (ACMS).
The July sign-off gave the Dutch the only CH-47D helicopters in operation that contain an integrated avionics system with electronic displays and controls-a "glass cockpit"-that is exportable to US allies. The system is integrated on a MIL-STD-1553B bus through which it can accommodate future system add-ons. Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems of Albuquerque, New Mexico, developed the ACMS with Boeing Defense and Space Group Helicopters Division of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Honeywell's ACMS integrates the Chinook's communications and navigation suites and electronic flight information system (EFIS) with the weather radar, flight director, flight control, and night-vision-compatible display systems as well as all airframe and engine equipment and sensors. Multifunction displays present the information from all of these systems to the pilots. The ACMS also includes a digital map, an inertial navigation system and a global positioning system for increased navigation accuracy.
The ACMS uses commercial as well as military off-the-self equipment. Honeywell originally developed the EFIS and weather radar for commercial aircraft, and the company adapted the mission and air vehicle computers from military designs. The system is capable of supporting the Chinook's full suite of sensors-pilotage, airframe and mission.
Other examples of Honeywell's adaptation of commercial, off-the-shelf equipment for military aircraft include its airplane information management system (AIMS) for Boeing's 777 commercial airliner, which helped evolve the color, flat panel displays Honeywell developed for the F-16 fighter and V-22 Osprey. Another example is Honeywell's vehicle mission management system for the Belgian Air Force's fleet of C-130s, which uses the company's commercial flight instrumentation, attitude heading and reference, and weather radar systems.
The Boeing CH-47D Chinook, a medium-lift rotorcraft that serves as the US Army's primary combat support and transport helicopter, operates throughout the world performing missions ranging from military transport and logistic support to civil functions including heavy construction, disaster relief, fire fighting and both land and maritime search and rescue.
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND, SEPT. 3 -- Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems recently obtained Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) technical standard order (TSO) authorization of the avionics it is developing for the Lockheed Martin C-130J. The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence is the first buyer of the C-130J, which will be operated by the Royal Air Force.
Honeywell's TSO authorizations support Lockheed Martin's progress toward FAA certification of the advanced-technology C-130J and its commercial version, the L-100J. Honeywell obtained the authorizations, in May and July, for the digital autopilot/flight director (DA/FD) and communication-navigation-identification management system (CNI-MS).
A TSO authorization certifies that a specific part of the aircraft complies with applicable FAA standards. It is required for certain portions of the aircraft before the FAA will certify an entire aircraft with its full "type certification." This is the first time Honeywell has attempted to obtain TSO authorizations on equipment originally designed and qualified to military standards.
Honeywell's DA/FD for the new C-130J provides yaw damper, autopilot, flight director and autothrottle functions to reduce flight crew workload and improve flight path control. Pitch axis autopilot/flight director modes include attitude hold/adjust, altitude hold/preselect, glideslope (Cat. II), vertical speed hold, airspeed hold/adjust, coupled autopilot/flight director, coordinated aircraft positioning system, rotation/go-around and synchronization.
The DA/FD roll axis autopilot/flight director modes include attitude hold/adjust, heading hold/adjust, localizer, backcourse localizer, tactical air navigation/VOR, coupled autopilot/flight director, coupled navigation, coordinated aircraft positioning system and rotation/go-around.
Yaw axis autopilot modes include yaw damper and turn coordination. Autothrottle modes include airspeed hold/adjust and coordinated aircraft positioning system. The autopilot has substantially fewer parts and higher reliability than its predecessor, and interfaces with sensors and avionics via MIL-STD 1553B data buses.
Honeywell's CNI-MS includes dual system processors, solid state electronics, control display management units featuring flat panel, night-vision-compatible displays and MIL-STD-1553 data bussing. Functions include digital flight management (flight planning, database management, lateral and vertical guidance), com/nav radio management and a navigation system that integrates an embedded global positioning system/inertial navigation system, Doppler velocity system, and VOR and tactical air navigation receivers. The system's crew interface units replace virtually all of the traditional dedicated control heads in the cockpit for on-board com/nav/ident avionics. Mission planning data from the ground-based mission planning system can be uploaded into the CNI-MS.
FARNBOROUGH, ENGLAND, SEPT. 3 - The world's first fully operational C-130 Hercules military transport with completely retrofitted avionics is now flying over European skies after its formal acceptance into active duty by the Belgian Air Force on June 18.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems developed and produced the avionics package for the Belgian Air Force (BAF) under subcontract to Sabena Technics, the technical/maintenance arm of Belgium's national airline, Sabena. Sabena Technics delivered the accepted prototype Hercules to the Belgian Air Force 15th Transport Wing in Brussels, and the first production aircraft followed on July 30. Sabena and Honeywell will retrofit the remaining nine aircraft in the BAF's fleet of
C-130Hs between now and 1998.
The BAF is taking a leading role worldwide in upgrading its fleet of C-130s. Initially built in the 1950s by Lockheed, C-130 aircraft can now be found in most countries' air forces. Other than the BAF fleet, none of these aircraft has had a full avionics upgrade.
The avionics package-Honeywell's integrated vehicle and mission management system (IVMMS)-provides an array of improvements for the C-130 crew. In a single system, it integrates the communications and navigation radio control, guidance and navigation, aircraft performance management, mission and flight planning, mission management, autopilot, and cockpit controls and displays management.
Honeywell's avionics suite contains both military and commercial equipment, including the digital autopilot/flight director, ring-laser-gyro inertial navigation system, electronic flight instrument system displays, weather radar, flight management system, attitude heading reference system and air data computers.
Other avionics integrated by the IVMMS include a global positioning system, communication radios, tactical air navigation and VOR receivers, and identify friend-or-foe equipment.
A flexible internal architecture permits advanced functional integration through centralized processing units that communicate with the various subsystems over several data busses using both military and commercial protocols. Integrated control and management of all navigation and communications subsystems are provided to the flight crew through three identical control/display units connected to the central processors.
Honeywell is currently producing a significant portion of the same avionics package, including the flight director/digital autopilot system and flight management system, for Lockheed Martin's new C-130J.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, MAY 8 Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems today announced that its Albuquerque manufacturing facility has received ISO 9001-1994 registration for design and manufacture of avionics and flight control systems for military aircraft, excluding software. The division will seek registration of its software quality system in early 1997.
The registration was effective April 19, 1996, from Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance, Ltd. (LRQA), a leading international certification body based in Croydon, United Kingdom, and includes registration by the American National Standards Institute Registrar Accreditation Board; Raad voor de Certificatie of the Netherlands; the Joint Accreditation System of Australia and New Zealand (JAS-ANZ); and the Deutscher Akkreditierungs Rat (DAR) of Germany.
ISO 9000 is a set of quality standards published by the Organisation Internationale de Normalisation, a multinational membership organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization's name translates to international standards organization, or ISO. The ISO standards serve as guidelines for businesses interested in making sure their processes result in high-quality products. The ISO 9001 part of the series applies to suppliers such as Honeywell that perform design. The ISO 9001 registration achieved by Defense Avionics Systems spans 20 elements related to quality and outlines requirements for documenting and implementing the division's quality philosophy, policies and procedures.
LRQA certified the Defense Avionics Systems facility to ISO 9001 quality standards following an extensive examination of its quality policies, procedures, systems and practices. According to Walt McConnell, vice president and general manager of Defense Avionics Systems, the in-depth review of our facility and subsequent approval for ISO 9001 registration provides assurance to our customers that the division complies with the highest international quality standards. Achieving this prestigious registration is a credit to each and every employeeÕs efforts to ensure the finest quality for our customers.
Defense Avionics Systems is the first of Honeywell's Space and Aviation Control divisions to achieve the prestigious registration.
Many of the divisionÕs potential international customers require ISO 9000 certification as a condition of contract awards, and an increasing number of domestic customers are beginning to require it as well. ISO 9000 is also expected to replace Mil-Q-9858, the military quality standard, late this year except where Mil-Q-9858 is part of existing contracts. The trend is that the Defense Department is moving, within the Perry Initiative, toward commercial standards, said Paul Vernagelli, Continuous Improvement team leader at Defense Avionics Systems. ISO 9000 is the best-known set of commercial quality standards.
An independent research study into the benefits of ISO approval in 1993, commissioned by LRQA, revealed significant internal and external benefits for companies that have implemented quality management systems and achieved ISO approval: 90 percent reported improved planning and control, 81 percent improved their levels of customer service, 79 percent cited increased productivity, 69 percent reported improved ability to bid for contracts and 50 percent increased their market share. The survey, Setting Standards for Better Business, is available from LRQA upon request.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company focused on creating value through technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases safety. The company services customers worldwide in the homes and buildings, industrial, and aviation and space markets. Honeywell employs 53,000 people in 95 countries, and had 1995 sales of $6.7 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, MARCH 22 Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems is the Company of the Year according to the Concurrent Engineering Award program sponsored nationwide by Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) and Machine Design Magazine, both of Ohio.
SDRC and Machine Design announced the award during the 1996 National Design Engineering Show in Chicago, March 19.
We have been viewed as pioneers with IPPD by our peers within Honeywell, said Rick Matthews, a senior staff engineer at Defense Avionics Systems. Now we are viewed as pioneers by our peers in industry. Integrated product and process development (IPPD) is synonymous with concurrent engineering.
Matthews pointed out that the value to our customers of our expertise with IPPD is that we're able to deliver products faster and at lower cost. IPPD gets the project teams on track very early, so they don't encounter difficulties with the interactions that traditionally occur throughout programs.
The Concurrent Engineering Award program identifies companies that are revolutionizing product design by using concurrent engineering to support aggressive changes in the processes they use to develop and manufacture products. It recognizes the opportunities to be more competitive that are gained by manufacturers who re-engineer their product development process.
Common themes found among the four award finalists this year were: a focus on team-based organization, radical changes in how work is accomplished, focus on customer relationships, major investments in automating work activities and dedication to continuous improvement.
Honeywell's entry traced four years of radical changes that began with creation of a nontraditional, customer-focused, team-based organization. The division then re-engineered the processes it uses in the business and adopted integrated computing tools to automate its product development processes.
The award program accepts applications from manufacturing organizations across the country, and more than 100 companies requested applications for the 1995 award. That number was narrowed to four finalists during a three-phase review process. The other three finalists were Motorola Power Products Division, Lexmark International, Inc. and Symbol Technologies, Inc.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems, based in Albuquerque, NM, designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company focused on creating value through technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases safety. The company serves customers worldwide in the homes and buildings, industrial, and aviation and space markets. Honeywell employs 50,000 people in 95 countries and had 1995 sales of $6.7 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., APRIL 11 Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems of Albuquerque, N.M., will develop and produce the new flight-director panel for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft under a contract awarded in January by Boeing Defense & Space Group, Helicopters Division, Philadelphia, Pa.
Boeing awarded the contract for the flight-director panel as part of its redesign of the prototype V-22 cockpit, currently under development for the U.S. Marine Corps and other military services.
The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey is a twin-turbine transport aircraft that combines the hovering capabilities of a helicopter with the speed and range of a turboprop airplane, making it extremely versatile for multimission use.
Because typical V-22 missions will occasionally impose a heavy work load on the crew, the aircraft's cockpit avionics are being redesigned specifically to help the crew assimilate information quickly and easily.
The Honeywell flight-director panel will be centrally mounted just below the cockpit's glare shield, which places it near the crew's eye level. The V-22's flight-director information was previously displayed on the multifunction displays in front of each crew member, which led to crowding of information on those displays.
The new panel will serve as a digital "mode control" panel for entering and reading data and modes in the aircraft's automatic flight control system.
Honeywell's panel uses segmented alphanumeric, liquid-crystal displays that are among the first to meet the new Federal Aviation Administration and Defense Department specifications for high luminance. High luminance makes displays easier to read when the display screen is in direct sunlight, and when the pilot's eyes must adjust quickly to the interior displays while flying in bright sunlight.
The new flight-director panel is also compatible with night-vision goggles.
"We are pleased to be able to support the Bell-Boeing V-22 program," said Walt McConnell, vice president and general manager of Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems. "Despite our nation's current budget pressures, we're convinced that the V-22 is one of the most important elements of our national defense. We're proud that the Bell-Boeing tiltrotor team has extended Honeywell's role on the program with this contract," he said.
Initial, low-rate production of the V-22 Osprey is expected to begin in 1996, with first delivery scheduled for June 1999. Boeing's primary role in the program is to build the fuselage and integrate the avionics. Bell is producing the wing and rotor assemblies.
Boeing previously awarded Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems a contract to provide the control display unit/engine-instrument crew-alerting system for the V-22, also part of Boeing's improvements to the prototype cockpit. The system will enable crew members to monitor whatever types of aircraft information they choose without taking up space on the primary flight displays. It includes a 6" x 8" color, active-matrix liquid-crystal display, two keyboards that provide the crew's primary interface with the aircraft's avionics, and two liquid-crystal displays used to select and display radio frequencies.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems of Albuquerque, N.M., designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 50,000 people in 95 countries on six continents and had 1994 sales of $6.1 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, AUGUST 30 Honeywell Inc. today announced it has negotiated a contract worth more than $99 million with Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems to produce color, flat panel cockpit displays and display generators for Lockheed Martin's European mid-life update (MLU) and Taiwan F-16 programs.
This represents the first production of color displays for the F-16 cockpit. The display will be used in the F-16 to present radar, weapon and system information.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems in Albuquerque, N.M., developed the display systems and will produce them under this agreement.
Delivery of a portion of the units will begin in March 1996 for inclusion in new F-16 fighter aircraft Lockheed Martin is producing for Taiwan's air force. Delivery of the remaining shipsets will begin in November 1996 for additional Taiwan aircraft and for incorporation into upgrade kits that Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands will use to retrofit their existing fleets of F-16 A/B aircraft. Final documentation of the Taiwan program award occurred in May 1995, while the MLU award is anticipated by October 1995.
The Honeywell displays replace the F-16's existing monochrome, cathode ray tube displays with 4"x4" color, active matrix, liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). In addition to being more reliable, AMLCDs weigh less, use less power and are easier to see in bright sunlight than CRTs.
Using color to differentiate types of information displayed on the screen also makes it easier for crew members to make decisions quickly about the aircraft's environment. For instance, color enables the pilot to more easily distinguish between friendly or unfriendly aircraft in a dense tactical situation.
Continuous F-16 technology upgrades have greatly expanded the types of situational data available to the pilot, which in turn have made color displays more useful in the cockpit. The evolution of display technology in recent years has also reduced the cost of color displays.
Honeywell's new display technology for the F-16 could be applied to a wide range of retrofits for U.S. and other countries' fleets of F-16s, F-5s, F-4s, T-38s and other aircraft that need compact displays.
Honeywell's development work on advanced aircraft display systems is benefiting not only the F-16 program, but also the Boeing 777 and 737 airliners, NASA's Space Shuttle and Boeing's V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company focused on creating value through technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases safety. The company serves customers worldwide in the homes and buildings, industrial, and aviation and space markets. Honeywell employs 50,000 people in 95 countries and had 1994 sales of $6.1 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., JANUARY 10 -- Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) officials have accepted delivery of six CH-47D aircraft that include the avionics control and management system (ACMS) developed by Honeywell for Boeing Defense and Space Group Helicopters Division in Philadelphia; the seventh aircraft should be delivered by mid-January. Two of the aircraft arrived in the Netherlands December 23, 1995. Six more ACMS-equipped Chinooks will be delivered to the RNLAF in 1998. Other international customers have expressed interest to Boeing and Honeywell.
Honeywell's integrated avionics solution for the CH-47 is based on a blend of existing, flight-proven production hardware and extensive software development experience. The highly reliable hardware has demonstrated its ability to perform on a variety of platforms.
"The ACMS is a unique blend of commercial and military equipment which offers the CH-47 operator the best of both worlds," said Walter J. McConnell, Jr., vice president and general manager of Honeywell's Defense Avionics Systems Division. "Honeywell's use of proven off-the-shelf equipment lowers acquisition costs, increases reliability and is supportable worldwide through a dedicated product support network. Honeywell's total system solution for the CH-47 ACMS includes both single-point-accountability and maximum value for Boeing Helicopters and its customers."
The Honeywell ACMS features fully integrated pilotage, mission and airframe avionics. The integrated approach reduces hardware content while improving reliability and maintainability, which translates into a reduction in operational and support costs. Increased mission success and survivability of the aircraft are additional benefits of the dual-redundant, reconfigurable architecture.
The ACMS, which incorporates precision navigation and situational awareness lessons learned from Desert Storm, enhances pilotage in adverse weather by integrating the display systems, FLIR and weather radar into a night vision-compatible cockpit.
System design incorporates redundancy to minimize vulnerability to failures and damage and to enhance the accuracy of navigation equipment. The ACMS interfaces with other aircraft equipment via two dual-redundant MIL-STD-1553B multiplex data busses, special purpose high- and low-speed ARINC-429 busses, and aircraft discrete, synchro, and proportional analog I/O interfaces.
A digital map function provides real-time tracking of helicopter position overlaid on paper chart or digital terrain elevation data displays. The primary crew interface is supported by four multifunction displays and two control/display units. Additional information is displayed on two electronic flight instrument systems (EFIS), each comprised of an electronic attitude/direction indicator and an electronic horizontal situation display. The ACMS also integrates the weather radar system for display of radar data on either the EFIS or mission displays. Two optical display assemblies, which mount on the pilots' night vision goggles, provide flight symbology during nighttime operations. Navigation redundancy is accomplished through use of a Kalman filter to blend navigation sensor data into the most accurate solution of aircraft position and motion, even during transient periods or loss of individual navigation sensor inputs.
The ACMS provides comprehensive integration and control of mission management, air vehicle management, and pilotage subsystems. Its flexible architecture will accommodate growth well into the next century. Central computers provide control and data handling capability for a wide variety of aircraft systems and equipment. This control and computation ability decreases crew workload and enhances navigation accuracy and mission safety. Overall, the ACMS provides the pilot and copilot with added functional capabilities which contribute to a more effective and efficient mission.
Honeywell's systems are supported through a worldwide product support and marketing network. As a result of the global acceptance of Honeywell's avionics, product support systems and field engineering networks are already in place to meet the needs of Boeing's international customers.
CH-47D International Chinooks serve throughout the world in a variety of environments and conditions. Designed as the U.S. Army's primary combat support and transport helicopter, the Chinook has served international customers not only as a military aircraft, but also as an equally important tool in nation-building and other important civil functions. In a recent assignment, Chinooks delivered components for a key river crossing in Bosnia.
Chinooks have played key roles in disaster relief, construction of public works and improvement of underdeveloped areas. The helicopter's heavy-lift capability enables it to transport vitally needed people, supplies or equipment into otherwise inaccessible locations in emergency situations, rescue victims of natural disasters or accidents and provide reliable service with low operating costs in nearly every climate and condition around the globe.
Defense Avionics Systems Division designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionic control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company focused on creating value through technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases safety. The company serves customers worldwide in the homes and buildings, industrial, and aviation and space markets. Honeywell employs 50,000 people in 95 countries and had 1994 sales of $6.1 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, OCTOBER 16 Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems was selected by Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems, Inc., on September 14, to provide global positioning system (GPS) enhanced navigation equipment (GENE) for the U.S. Air Force C-141. This off-the-shelf equipment, together with Honeywell's extensive integration experience, will provide the C-141 aircrew with the control and display equipment necessary to perform its mission.
"This C-141 project further broadens the product offerings of Defense Avionics Systems," said Walt McConnell, vice president and general manager of Defense Avionics Systems, "by incorporating a GPS receiver into our system processor. It also provides an opportunity to use performance and guidance technology Honeywell developed for the commercial Boeing 777 on a military platform."
The Honeywell solution uses proven commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) and non-developmental hardware, a flight management system based on years of development for both commercial and military applications, a worldwide navigation database, maximum reuse of existing software, and a Kalman filter specifically developed for tanker/transport applications to improve inertial navigation system (INS)-only accuracies. The Kalman filter will provide the C-141 crew optimized navigation performance using the global positioning system sensor data blended with INS and barometric altitude data.
The nucleus of the C-141 GENE comes from the hardware and software components provided by Honeywell for the C-130J communication/navigation/identification management system (CNI-MS). That system includes a flight management system (FMS) first developed for commercial transport aircraft. It was later modified, augmented with military tactical capabilities and installed on the C-17. It has since been further updated and provides full lateral and vertical guidance, aircraft performance and mission-specific functions such as takeoff and landing data (TOLD), computed air release point (CARP), rendezvous/intercept maneuvers and subsystem control and monitoring for the C-130J and Belgian Air Force C-130 avionics upgrade.
The GENE will also include a fuel savings advisory system (FSAS) based on the predictive performance algorithms and software developed for the Boeing 777 aircraft.
The program delivery schedule is both critical and aggressive. To achieve the required nine-month prototype delivery, Honeywell will take advantage of existing designs and equipment. Delivery of GENE production units begins in August 1997 with current plans to equip 96 C-141 aircraft. The GENE units will be used in the C-141 StarLifter, which forms the backbone of the U.S. Air Force's airlift fleet. Heavily relied on during both Desert Shield and Desert Storm, it has since been deployed in support of UN peacekeeping missions.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company focused on creating value through technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases safety. The company serves customers worldwide in the homes and buildings, industrial, and aviation and space markets. Honeywell employs 50,000 people in 95 countries and had 1994 sales of $6.1 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., DECEMBER 8 The Belgian Air Force C-130 avionics modification that made its first flight May 4, 1995, has received authorization from the Belgian Air Force to enter series production. The avionics modification is based on the integrated vehicle and mission management system (IVMMS) developed and produced by Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems. The first production aircraft has entered the Sabena Technics facility in Brussels, Belgium, and is scheduled to be completed during the second quarter of 1996.
Numerous countries have expressed interest in this unique integrated avionics package. The upgraded C-130 Hercules will be on static display at this year's Asian Aerospace show in Singapore, February 5-9, next to Sabena Technics' chalet (F6).
The aircraft modifications, made by prime contractor Sabena Technics, included a complete avionics upgrade. Honeywell's avionics suite contains both military and commercial equipment, including the digital autopilot/flight director, ring laser gyro inertial navigation system (INS), electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) displays, weather radar, flight management system (FMS), attitude heading reference system (AHRS), air data computer and control/display system.
The cockpit upgrade, which equipped the first C-130H with state-of-the-art avionics, is comparable in many ways to the avionics being installed in the new Lockheed C-130J. Flight testing has proceeded smoothly with all flight testing required to support operational fielding complete. It is expected that the upgraded aircraft will soon be delivered to the Belgian 15th Transport Wing.
Other avionics integrated by the IVMMS include a global positioning system (GPS), communication radios, navigation radios and identify friend-or-foe (IFF) equipment. The avionics are controlled by the pilot through a control and display unit (CDU) that communicates with the various subsystems over several data busses, using both military and commercial protocols.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 50,000 people in 95 countries on six continents and had 1994 sales of $6.1 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., OCT. 6 Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems has been awarded six contracts worth $16.8 million to produce 90 flight controllers for the B-1B bomber. Honeywell received the contracts on Sept. 21 from the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
The controllers comprise the bulk of the flight control system electronics on the aircraft, and will be used as spares in an Air Force program that will keep the B-1B fully operational.
Defense Avionics Systems designed and produced the original controllers during the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1980s, Defense Avionics Systems also developed the B-1B's gyro stabilization, vertical situation display and offensive display systems.
The decision to provide more spares for the B-1B came after the Air Force funded a six-month operational readiness review of the aircraft during 1994, in which it shut down some B-1B aircraft to use as spares for the remaining aircraft. The study demonstrated that, given sufficient spares, the B-1B can be a highly dependable aircraft. Based in part on that study, which concluded in November 1994, Congress funded spares for the aircraft this year.
Honeywell will produce the controllers over a 36-month period, with first delivery scheduled for fourth quarter 1996. The controllers include stability and control augmentation system controllers, automatic flight control/trim controllers, structural mode control logic controllers, spoiler controllers, flap/slat controllers and hinge moment limiter/over-wing fairing controllers.
With obsolete parts presenting a continuing problem for defense contractors, as suppliers stop making the custom parts that meet military specifications, Honeywell has identified fewer than six obsolete parts in its original flight control system. The low obsolescence is due primarily to two factors: Honeywell's design relies heavily on custom-designed microcircuits and modules that are still produced by Honeywell, and the most advanced digital technology in the design was 5400-series transistor-transistor logic, much of which remains readily obtainable.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems, located in Albuquerque, N.M., designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company focused on creating value through technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases safety. The company serves customers worldwide in the homes and buildings, industrial, and aviation and space markets. Honeywell employs 50,000 people in 95 countries and had 1994 sales of $6.1 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., JANUARY 31 -- Officials at Boeing Defense and Space Group Helicopters Division in Philadelphia placed December purchase orders with Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems to provide an integrated avionics control and management system (ACMS) for Boeing's International CH-47D Chinook helicopter for the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF).
Boeing and Honeywell signed a formal memorandum of agreement for the CH-47D ACMS on April 5, 1993. The December orders involve seven shipsets with a value exceeding $10 million; an additional order to Defense Avionics Systems for six shipsets for the RNLAF is anticipated later this year. Delivery of the first shipset is scheduled for late spring, with flight testing to begin in June. Boeing and Honeywell forecast the international market for the ACMS to be approximately 100 shipsets over the next five years.
Honeywell's integrated avionics solution for the CH-47D is based on a blend of existing, flight-proven production hardware and extensive software development experience. The highly reliable hardware has demonstrated its ability to perform on a variety of platforms.
"The ACMS is a unique blend of commercial and military equipment which offers the CH-47D operator the best of both worlds," said Walter J. McConnell Jr., vice president and general manager of Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems. "Honeywell's use of proven off-the-shelf equipment lowers acquisition costs, increases reliability and is supportable worldwide through a dedicated product support network. Honeywell's total system solution for the CH-47D ACMS includes both single-point-accountability and maximum value for Boeing Helicopters and its customers."
Honeywell's software integration ability has already been demonstrated on a joint Boeing and Honeywell IR&D effort. In addition, the company's experience in defining and developing software requirements for the OH-58D, RC-12K and Belgian Air Force C-130 further strengthens its position in developing the CH-47D software.
The Honeywell ACMS features fully integrated pilotage, mission and airframe avionics. The integrated approach reduces hardware content while improving reliability and maintainability, which translates into a reduction in operational and support costs. The associated weight reduction ultimately improves the range and lift capability of the aircraft. Increased mission success and survivability of the aircraft are additional benefits of the dual-redundant, reconfigurable architecture.
The ACMS, which iincorporates precision navigation and situational awareness lessons learned from Desert Storm, enhances pilotage in adverse weather by integrating the display systems, FLIR and weather radar into a night vision-compatible cockpit.
Honeywell's systems are supported through a worldwide product support and marketing network. As a result of the global acceptance of Honeywell's avionics, product support systems and field engineering networks are already in place to meet the needs of Boeing's international customers.
CH-47D International Chinooks serve throughout the world in a variety of environments and conditions. Designed as the U. S. Army's primary combat support and transport helicopter, the Chinook has served international customers not only as a military aircraft, but also as an equally important tool in nation-building and other important civil functions.
Chinooks have played key roles in disaster relief, construction of public works and improvement of underdeveloped areas. The helicopter's heavy-lift capability enables it to transport vitally needed people, supplies or equipment into otherwise inaccessible locations in emergency situations, rescue victims of natural disasters or accidents and provide reliable service with low operating costs in nearly every climate and condition around the globe.
Defense avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionic control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 52,000 people in 95 countries on six continents.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., MARCH 1 -- For the first time, Lockheed's F-16 aircraft will have a cockpit display that employs color.
The result: greater situational awareness for the pilot. By using color to differentiate types of information displayed on its screen, the new display makes it easier for crew members to make decisions quickly about the aircraft's environment. For instance, color will help reduce pilot work-load by making it easier to identify types of aircraft-either friendly or unfriendly-in a dense tactical situation.
Lockheed Fort Worth Company awarded a contract in December for design of the F-16 upgraded displays to Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lockheed will use the design to retrofit existing F-16 A/B aircraft belonging to NATO countries Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands.
Lockheed will produce and integrate the upgrade kits, which will then be installed in Europe beginning in 1996.
The new system consists of a color multifunction display and an enhanced, upgraded programmable display generator. The display is a state-of-the-art, 4" x 4" color liquid-crystal flat-panel display that is form-fit to replace the existing cathode-ray tube monochrome display. The display is used in the F-16 cockpit to present radar, weapon and system information.
The generator is a modification of the display generator currently in the F-16 C/D. It provides higher-quality graphics and a new interface to accommodate the new display.
Continuous F-16 technology upgrades have greatly expanded the types of situational data available to the pilot, which in turn have made color displays far more useful in the cockpit. The evolution of display technology in recent years has also reduced the cost of color displays, making color displays a clear value for the F-16 weapon system.
Now that it has incorporated the new color display into its European Mid-life Update program, Lockheed will offer the upgrade to F-16 A/B and C/D operators in other countries.
Honeywell's new flat-panel color display design can be adapted to both a 4" x 4" and a 5" x 5" footprint display to support a variety of F-16 requirements. The new display, in either size, can be applied to a wide range of retrofits for U.S. and other countries' fleets of F-16s, F-5s, F-4s, T-38s and other aircraft that need compact displays.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 52,000 people in 95 countries on six continents, and had 1993 sales of $6 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., SEPTEMBER 2 -- The selection of E-Systems as the preferred tenderer for the refurbishment of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-3C Orion aircraft awards contracts of significant value to Honeywell. Honeywell Ltd., Australia, is a team member with E-Systems, Aerospace Technologies of Australia and AWA Defence Industries on the project. Honeywell will be responsible for cockpit and avionics systems upgrades including navigation and flight instrument integration design and installation and operational level maintenance training. Defense Avionics Systems' share of the work will include system engineering and integration, software engineering and the production of avionics processors.
"We're pleased to be part of the team selected for this contract because it is the first of a new generation of integrated cockpit avionics upgrades for the P-3C," said Walt McConnell, vice president and general manager of Defense Avionics Systems.
The project, due for completion by the turn of the century, involves replacing the radar, acoustic processing, data management, navigation and communication systems on 18 P-3C aircraft, and providing a range of ground systems to support aircraft operations. This overall program, totaling over $450 million, provides operational enhancements and a cost-effective extension of the service life of the aircraft to the year 2015.
The avionics processor to be provided by Defense Avionics Systems is an extension of the Defense Avionics Systems' product line, providing processing and specialized interface components for the C-130J communication/navigation/identification management system (CNI-MS), the Belgian Air Force C-130 integrated vehicle and mission management system, the CH-47D advanced cockpit management system (ACMS), the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior upgrade and the RC-12K avionics control system/aircraft survivability equipment (ASE/ACS) project.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 51,000 people in 95 countries on six continents, and had 1993 sales of $6 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., SEPTEMBER 13 -- Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems has been selected by Boeing Helicopters in Philadelphia to design, develop and produce the Control Display Unit/Engine Instrument Crew Alerting System (CDU/EICAS) for the V-22 Osprey.
Under a engineering, manufacturing, development contract, Honeywell will produce 16 shipsets that include a single 6-inch by 8-inch color active matrix liquid crystal display for system status display and control, two keyboard units for data entry and mode control, and two independent radio frequency indicators/selectors for radio status and selection. Subsequent production orders could total 500 shipsets.
"We're extremely pleased at this award because it continues an already-successful relationship with Boeing on the CH-47D Avionics Control and Management System (ACMS) program," said Walt McConnell, vice president and general manager for the wining Honeywell division. "We felt that Honeywell's extensive experience with control and display systems, together with our proven supplier base, will result in the best overall value and lowest risk solution for the V-22 CDU/EICAS."
Honeywell has extensive experience with pilot-vehicle interface, including the CH-47D ACMS and the Boeing 777 Airplane Information Management System (AIMS). The Honeywell V-22 CDU/EICAS will provide improved pilot-vehicle interface, design features that allow easy modification of the pilot-vehicle interface for system growth and changing mission requirements, low weight, high reliability including low part count and minimized power consumption, and compliance to the full military environmental requirements.
The CDU/EICAS keyboard unit design represents reuse of essential designs and components of several existing products currently in production for other programs. This derivative design reduces schedule, cost and program risk.
The remote frequency indicator/selector is a low-power, light weight indicator utilizing proven LCD and lighted bezel technologies.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 51,000 people in 95 countries on six continents, and had 1993 sales of $6 billion.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., DEC. 13 -- Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, has contracted Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems to develop software that will incorporate Honeywell's new embedded global-positioning-system-aided inertial navigation system (EGI) into the Honeywell integrated cockpit control display system on the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter.
The contract is a $1.2 million engineering change, signed Oct. 5, to extensive cockpit upgrades Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems is providing for the helicopter.
Bell is upgrading the Kiowa Warrior for the U.S. Army Aviation and Troop Command.
The EGI provides precise navigation information in a highly dynamic aircraft environment by integrating global positioning system (GPS) satellite signals and inertial navigation system (INS) inertial data. Honeywell Military Avionics in St. Petersburg, Fla., provides EGIs to the U.S. Army, Air Force and Marines for use on various aircraft, including the OH-58. The EGI uses Military Avionics' newest digital ring-laser gyroscope, the Dig-Gyro, which incorporates Honeywell's more than 30 years of successful gyro development experience.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, also provides the multifunction displays, remote frequency flat-panel display, master controller processor unit, integrated systems processor and keyboard unit that comprise the integrated cockpit control display system on the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior. In addition, the Albuquerque division provides the Warrior's integration software and its optical display assembly-which is a heads-up display that mounts to night-vision goggles.
Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports avionics control systems for the Department of Defense and its prime contractors. It also provides similar services for allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Honeywell is a global controls company providing products, systems and services that increase comfort, environmental protection, energy conservation, productivity and safety in homes and buildings, industry, and aviation and space. The company employs 51,000 people in 95 countries on six continents and had 1993 sales of $6 billion.
Note: Bell Helicopter Textron editorial contact:
Carl Harris, Director of Public Affairs and Advertising, (817) 280-2425.
Management
Walter J. McConnell, Jr. - Vice President and General Manager
Dave Anderson - Finance Unit Leader/Controller
Nick Berlangieri - Customer Satisfaction Unit Leader
Rick Borken - Project Management Unit Leader
Jim Glueck - Site Management Unit Leader
Holly Albert - Division Counsel
E. G. Smith - Process Quality Unit Leader
Tom Wylie - Resource Administration Unit Leader
Products
B-1B Bomber -- Honeywell provides four vital systems critical to the performance of the bomber: the flight controls system for stability and maneuverability; the gyro stabilization system for attitude and heading information; the defensive display set including a display processor and monochrome display used by electronic warfare and weapons systems operators; and the vertical situation display, a primary attitude and direction indicator.
B-2 Bomber -- Under contract to Northrop Corp., Honeywell is producing a 300 megabyte data storage and retrieval unit for the U.S. Air Force's newest bomber. Two rewritable, data storage and retrieval units, located in the cockpit console, will provide the pilot with immediate access to a mission database and the ability to record mission data and performance information in-flight. The radiation-hardened data storage retrieval unit includes a removable 5 1/4-inch optical disk which evolved from the optical disk digital memory unit developed for the AV-8B and F/A-18 night attack aircraft.
F-15 Aircraft -- Honeywell provides cockpit color displays, display processors, attitude heading and reference systems, air navigation indicator displays, display processors and digital air data computers for the U. S. Air Force's F-15 Eagle tactical aircraft.
Honeywell is also under contract for a digital map system consisting of a computer and two solid-state memory cartridges. The system is based on the technology developed for the U.S. Navy's AV-8B and F/A-18 night attack program, as well as on work done by the division on an advanced digital terrain system. The map includes a 500mb solid state memory device as the storage medium for theater-area maps, dynamic translucent threat overlays, terrain masking, and dynamic elevation color masking. It is programmed in ADA.
F-16 Aircraft -- Honeywell has been a member of the F-16 team since 1982, providing monochrome cockpit displays, display processors and air data computers for the C and D versions of the aircraft. Today, in conjunction with the F-16's preplanned product improvement program, Honeywell is developing an advanced display processor that will provide increased processing power and reliability to meet complex mission requirements and a color multifunction display.
The new system consists of a color multifunction display and an enhanced, upgraded programmable display generator. The display is a state-of-the-art, 4" x 4" color liquid-crystal flat-panel display that is form-fit to replace the existing cathode-ray tube monochrome display. The display is used in the F-16 cockpit to present radar, weapon and system information.
The generator is a modification of the display generator currently in the F-16 C/D. It provides higher-quality graphics and a new interface to accommodate the new display.
Honeywell's new flat-panel color display design can be adapted to both a 4" x 4" and a
5" x 5" footprint display to support a variety of F-16 requirements. The new display, in either size, can be applied to a wide range of retrofits for U.S. and other countries' fleets of F-16s, F-5s, F-4s, T-38s and other aircraft that need compact displays.
F-18 Aircraft -- The full-color, real-time digital moving map system, provided for the F/A-18 Hornet night attack program since 1984, incorporates solid state memory and advance map functions designed to handle high-performance aircraft requirements. More than 600 systems have been delivered.
Since receiving a full-scale engineering development contract from McDonnell Douglas Corp. in 1976 to provide the air data computer for the F-18 fighter, Honeywell has delivered more than 800 production units for the U. S. Navy and the governments of Canada, Australia and Spain. The F-18 was the first application of a fully-militarized digital air data computer.
X-31A -- Honeywell provides a digital fly-by-wire flight control system for the X-31A Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability demonstrator aircraft. The highly sophisticated digital flight control system includes an integrated vectored thrust system that allows the aircraft to achieve controlled flight beyond the aircraft's aerodynamic lift limit. The X-31 successfully completed first flight in October 1990.
AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter -- Honeywell provides the multiplex data bus system, digital automatic stabilization equipment and video symbol generator system for the U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter. More than 520 shipsets have been delivered.
OH-58D Kiowa Warrior Helicopter -- Honeywell produces the control/display subsystem (CDS) for the U.S. Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter. Honeywell's CDS integrates the navigation, communication, mast-mounted sight, aircraft survivability equipment and weapons systems in order to reduce pilot workload and enhance the overall effectiveness of the OH-58D.
Defense Avionics Systems also received a contract to develop software that will incorporate Honeywell's new embedded global-positioning-system-aided inertial navigation system (EGI) into the Honeywell integrated cockpit control display system on the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter. The EGI provides precise navigation information in a highly dynamic aircraft environment by integrating global positioning system (GPS) satellite signals and inertial navigation system (INS) inertial data.
V-22 -- Honeywell has been selected by Boeing Helicopters in Philadelphia to design, develop and produce the Control Display Unit/Engine Instrument Crew Alerting System (CDU/EICAS) for the V-22 Osprey.
Under an engineering, manufacturing, development contract, Defense Avionics Systems will produce 16 shipsets that include a single 6-inch by 8-inch color active matrix liquid crystal display for system status display and control, two keyboard units for data entry and mode control, and two independent radio frequency indicators/selectors for radio status and selection. Subsequent production orders could total 500 shipsets.
Honeywell was also selected to develop and produce the new flight-director panel for the V-22. The new panel will serve as a digital "mode control" panel for entering and reading data and modes in the aircraft's automatic flight control system.
Honeywell's panel uses segmented alphanumeric, liquid-crystal displays that are among the first to meet the new Federal Aviation Administration and Defense Department specifications for high luminance. High luminance makes displays easier to read when the display screen is in direct sunlight, and when the pilot's eyes must adjust quickly to the interior displays while flying in bright sunlight. The new flight-director panel is also compatible with night-vision goggles.
CH-47D -- Boeing Defense and Space Group Helicopters Division selected Honeywell to provide an integrated avionics control and management system (ACMS) for the International CH-47D Chinook helicopter. The integrated avionics solution integrates the display systems, FLIR and weather radar into a night vision-compatible cockpit and is a blend of existing, flight-proven production hardware and extensive software development experience. The ACMS features fully-integrated pilotage, mission and airframe avionics. The integrated approach reduces hardware content, improves reliability and maintainability and results in reduced operational and support costs. The first contract to provide an integrated avionics control and management system (ACMS) for Boeing's International CH-47D Chinook helicopter was for the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF). Boeing and Honeywell forecast the international market for the ACMS to be approximately 100 shipsets over the next five years.
B-52/KC-135 Strategic Aircraft -- Honeywell is providing the control display subsystem, offensive avionics system, air data sensor unit and the digital automatic flight control system for the U. S. Air Force B-52 and KC-135 aircraft. More than 200 B-52s and 300
KC-135s are equipped with Honeywell digital automatic flight control systems. The B-52 offensive avionics system includes multifunction displays, a display processor, a radar scan converter, keyboard and a video recorder.
Belgian Air Force C-130 -- Honeywell was awarded a contract in January, 1992, to upgrade the avionics systems for the Belgian Air Force fleet of C-130 aircraft. Functioning as the avionics systems integrator under a subcontract to Sabena Technics, Honeywell is providing a highly sophisticated avionics package consisting of a flight management system, a digital autopilot/flight director, an electronic flight instrument system, weather radar and a ring laser gyro inertial navigation system. The system has successfully completed ground testing and all flight testing required to support operational fielding of the aircraft in early 1966. In December, 1995, the Belgian Air Force formally authorized series production, illustrating their confidence in the maturity of the system.
C-130J Hercules II Transport -- Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company selected Honeywell as the baseline supplier of the digital autopilot/flight director (DA/FD) and the communication/navigation/identification management system (CNI-MS) for the C-130J Hercules II program.
The DA-FD consists of two identical automatic flight control processors (AFCPs), three servo drives, and three servo drum and bracket assemblies. The AFCPs provide the autopilot, yaw damper, flight director and auto throttle computer functions for the C-130J. The contract includes an engineering and manufacturing development phase, Federal Aviation Administration certification and 130 production shipsets. Shipset deliveries begin in January 1995.
The CNI-MS makes maximum use of proven equipment previously developed and qualified on both domestic and international programs. The systems processor performs communication and navigation radio management, flight planning, guidance, navigation management and computations, aircraft performance computations, maintenance operations and data storage and retrieval. The inertial navigation and reference system uses a Kalman complementary filter first developed for the Belgian Air Force C-130 program. The flight management system (FMS) is based on Honeywell's commercial Boeing 757/767, business aviation Gulfstream G-IV and U.S. Air Force C-17 FMS technologies.
C-17 Air Transport -- Honeywell is providing color multifunction displays, flight management software and the air data computer for the U. S. Air Force's newest air transport.
Royal Australian Air Force P-3 -- The selection of E-Systems as the preferred tenderer for the refurbishment of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P-3C Orion aircraft awards contracts of significant value to Honeywell. Honeywell Ltd., Australia, is a team member with E-Systems, Aerospace Technologies of Australia and AWA Defence Industries on the project. Honeywell will be responsible for cockpit and avionics systems upgrades including navigation and flight instrument integration design and installation and operational level maintenance training. Defense Avionics Systems' share of the work will include system engineering and integration, software engineering and the production of avionics processors.
The project, due for completion by the turn of the century, involves replacing the radar, acoustic processing, data management, navigation and communication systems on 18 P-3C aircraft, and providing a range of ground systems to support aircraft operations. This overall program, totaling over $450 million, provides operational enhancements and a cost-effective extension of the service life of the aircraft to the year 2015.
C-130E Transport -- Honeywell has contracts to replace the automatic pilot systems on board the fleet of C-130Es used by the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The system, originally developed as an update for the U.S. Air Force's fleet of B-52s and KC-135s, has accumulated more than 250,000 operating hours with a demonstrated reliability in excess of 1,500 hours. It consists of a flight control computer, status test panel, air control unit sensor, attitude switching unit, autopilot control panel, mode annunciator, and the altitude preselect control. Digital electronic microcircuit technology will provide lower life cycle costs and improved reliability.
C-141--Honeywell was selected by Chrysler Technologies Airborne Systems, Inc., to provide global positioning system (GPS) enhanced navigation equipment (GENE) for the U.S. Air Force C-141. This off-the-shelf equipment, together with Honeywell/s extensive integration experience, will provide the C-141 aircrew with the control and display equipment necessary to perform its mission.
The Honeywell solution uses proven commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) and non-developmental hardware, a flight management system based on years of development for both commercial and military applications, a worldwide navigation database, maximum reuse of existing software, and a Kalman filter specifically developed for tanker/transport applications to improve inertial navigation system (INS)-only accuracies. The Kalman filter will provide the C-141 crew optimized navigation performance using the global positioning system sensor data blended with INS and barometric altitude data.
The GENE will also include a fuel savings advisory system (FSAS) based on the predictive performance algorithms and software developed for the Boeing 777 aircraft.
Universal Drone Control System -- The U.S. Army Missile Command selected Honeywell to provide a universal drone control system (UDS) for the Army's next-generation, full-scale helicopter target programs.
Honeywell will design, develop, integrate, fabricate, install and perform acceptance testing for three prototype UDS-equipped helicopters, as well as produce two system test sets. Training will also be provided to U.S. Army drone controllers and maintenance personnel. The system will be readily adaptable in form, fit and function to fly a variety of helicopters including single and tandem rotor, single and twin engine, coaxial rotor, etc.
QF-104J Full-Scale Aerial Target -- Honeywell developed a full-scale aerial target system for the Japanese Defense Agency. The development effort included airborne target control drone avionics equipment and operational engineering capability for the conversion of two F-104J prototype aircraft into aerial targets. A total of 29 aircraft are planned to be converted under the production program now underway.
QF-106 Full Scale Aerial Target -- As prime contractor, Honeywell is responsible for program management, total systems design, fabrication and production equipment. The QF-106 will retain the full capability to be flown as a manned aircraft as well as a remotely controlled target vehicle.
Customers
Defense Avionics Systems designs, manufactures, markets and supports electronic control systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, its prime contractors and allied nations under licensed export agreements.
Facilities
Defense Avionics Systems
9201 San Mateo Boulevard, N. E.
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113
Size: 528,000 sq. ft. facility on 65 acres
Approximately 1,300 employees, 347 of whom are engineers
Marketing, engineering, production, human resources, information management, finance, contract management, and quality assurance.
Phoenix Support Center
21640 N. 12th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85027-2837
Size: 40,000 sq. ft. in north Phoenix
Approximately 100 employees
The Support Center is a dedicated facility that provides modification, repair and/or retrofit for the division's products.
Optical Storage Systems Operations
18401 N. 25th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85023-1252
Size: 25,000 sq. ft.
Approximately 20 employees
Develops and produces optical disk units designed for highly reliable operation in military applications.
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