Aerospace Diary

By  Lindsay Norman  Senior Specialist Marcom division of Honeywell Aerospace We have all had the frustrating experiences of not remembering a login or password to an account that you need access, only to be led down a path of confusing reset actions that eventually lead to another set of credentials you are sure to forget. From bills to e-commerce sites, we all have built up numerous maybe even hundreds of aliases in order to access our accounts online. Honeywell Aerospace is no different and because of the company’s size and history, customers used to log in multiple times on different platforms to get at basic account information. In order to reduce this level of complexity, the Honeywell Aerospace Services team decided to create GoDirect; a one-stop shop and single sign-on location for all of Honeywell’s Aerospace Services. Steve Kersh, a Senior Director with Services Operations says this was a frustration for customers. However, not everyone wanted total cons...

by  Neelam Mathews  -  January 4, 2017, 7:35 am India is likely to sign a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for 56   C295 military transports within six months, according to the country's retiring chief of the air staff, Arup Raha. Meanwhile, the Indian Ministry of Defence has cleared the separate acquisition of six   C295 s for an Indian Coast Guard requirement. Both orders will be delivered by the Tata-Airbus partnership that is India’s first-ever private sector aircraft development enterprise. At his end-of-tenure press conference on December 23, Raha told   AIN   that the evaluation of the   C295   bid for the   IAF   is complete and contract negotiations would start soon. “Since benchmarking and other issues [of the aircraft] are known to us, the process will not take very long, especially with a proactive defense minister where things get sorted out faster than they did in the past,” he said. He added that, g...

Land Warfare 03rd January 2017 - 0:25 by  Neelam Mathews  in Delhi  Tata Motors is confident that a decision on which companies have been down-selected for the Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) programm e will be announced in the first quarter of 2017.  Read morein Shephardmedia.....