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Echodyne's EchoShield cognitive radar concepts combine different waveforms, beam schedules (Image: Echodyne)

EchoShield Radar authorized by FCC

Military

Drone airspace corridor opens in Paris

Unmanned Traffic Management
The upgraded airspace covers 54,000 square nautical miles over Wales and the southwest of England (Image: NATS)

CAA launches review following NATS technical failure

Civil Aviation Authority

DFS to consult on remote towers in Lithuania

Intersoft Electronics opens office in France

Satellite & Radar
Reliable Robotics and Inmarsat partner on satellite comms for unmanned aircraft 

Reliable Robotics and FAA flight test unmanned drones

Advanced Air Mobility
NASA lead software developer, Ethan Williams, left, pilot Scott Howe, and operations test consultant Jan Scofield run a flight path management software simulation at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California (Image: NASA)

US researchers prepare to move autonomy simulations to flight test

Advanced Air Mobility

NATS and BT agree seven year deal on networking

Technology
The "Twinvis Sheltered" can be flexibly and easily deployed on military carrier vehicles (Image: Hensoldt)

Hensoldt upgrades Twinvis passive radar

Military
High Density Vertiplex Operations Center at NASA Langley (Image: NASA)

NASA demonstrates autonomous drone operations at Langley vertiplex

Advanced Air Mobility
AMS/SGAT tower at Montréal–Trudeau International Airport (Image: Aéroports de Montréal)

Canada upgrades airspace communication with Frequentis X10 system

Communications

Skykraft delivers space-based VHF communication for ATM

Airspace Management

NATS to deploy new back-up control tower at Heathrow

Remote Towers

Frequentis buys Norwegian software company GuardREC ATC

Technology
An Air India Boeing 747-400 arrives at JFK with the control tower in the background

FAA and ATCA launch Advancing Acquisitions Challenge

Civil Aviation Authority