Buy new aircraft vs. upgrade avionics in existing fleet
Successes/Case studies on integrating new avionics into older aircraft
Equipage and regulatory/certification issues for SESAR/NextGen in the cockpit
New developments in cockpit controls
New developments in cockpit displays
Airline, pilot, regulatory body perspectives on electronic flight bags, Apple`s iPad as an electronic flight bag
ADS-B In technology, ADS-B Out, and ATSAW
Harmonization efforts between SESAR and NextGen technologies
Achieving standardization in flight management systems - case studies and lessons learned
Latest avionics roadmaps from avionics system integrators; e.g., Thales, Rockwell Collins, Honeywell, Garmin, Universal Avionics, GE Aviation, etc
Challenges and solutions for integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into civilian airspace
Solutions for preventing runway incursions and excursions
Airbus and Boeing avionics roadmaps
ARINC Standards updates
GPS technology for avionics systems
Airline roadmaps for avionics and next-generation air traffic management (ATM) solutions
Required navigation performance (RNP), required communication performance, and required surveillance performance methods and tools for avionics systems
ASAS tools for the pilot
Pilot perspective/lessons learned/human factors analysis of flying RNP, learning to use new next generation avionics systems
4D trajectory technology
Avionics industry overall
Certification requirements, tools and advice on achieving certifications
Regulatory issues and information impacting the avionics industry
Market analysis and future outlook for commercial, general, and defense avionics
Standards impacting the avionics market, such as FACE, small form factors, etc
Importance of rugged, high-reliability, and radiation-tolerant/hardened systems and components
Increasing efficiency, such as in flight plans, reduced separation minima, fuel reduction technology, etc
Cockpit display systems including Flight Critical Displays, Mission Display Units, Digital Map, Control Display Units, and Processing Units
Safety and quality management systems (SMS/QMS)
Enhanced vision system (EVS), synthetic vision system (SVS), combined vision system (CVS), and enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) use, trends, equipment, benefits/drawbacks
Databus Technologies
Embedded systems & software development trends & technologies current and future
Power electronics, wiring harness, and thermal management issues (design issues, requirements management, battery safety, power conversion, heat dissipation and generation) in aircraft and rotorcraft, UAVs, spacecraft, satellites
Simulation and training, for pilots (flight simulation/training)
Software considerations, tools, concerns, and benefits, including secure real-time operating systems, (RTOS) development platforms and environments, code verification, electronic design automation (EDA), product lifecycle management (PLM), human-machine interfaces, and more
Data acquisition, data exploitation, data transmission, data security, data storage, including sensors, electro-optics, cameras (still and video, thermal, etc.) used in data acquisition from satellites, gimbals on aircraft and rotorcraft, UAVs, etc
Testing & measurement certification, trends, requirements, issues, tools & training
Pilot issues, needs, technologies, trends, and tools
Various sensors and associated hardware and software technologies employed on commercial and defense aircraft and satellites, including UAVs
Air traffic management challenges, concerns, solutions, and options; comparing and contrasting methods; work being done at the government, association, and local levels
Electronic flight bag (EFB) innovations, trends, tools, benefits over alternatives, and adoption
Global positioning system (GPS), Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi avionics innovations, caveats
Pilot display technologies and trends; comparing heads up and heads down displays
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) datalink vs. voice prompts, communications, and confirmations
Connectivity, communications, IFE, datalink and voice
Software Defined Radios, VHF/UHF Transceivers for Airborne Communications
Aircraft Communications Security Issues and technologies
Unmanned aircraft & ground control technologies
Defense avionics
Managing obsolescence in modern avionics systems
Defense avionics market analysis, opportunities, and future outlook
Impact of SESAR/NextGen airspace changes on military aviation
Secure Communications including methods for anti-jam communications, Wideband interfaces for external encryption devices and Tap- and spoof-proof communications through integrated encryption
COTS vs custom electronics in military avionics
Case studies on military avionics retrofits
Power and thermal management challenges and avionics solutions
Electronics for size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained environments/cockpits
Managing software changes in defense avionics systems
Avionics test and evaluation challenges for military aircraft
Detecting and avoiding counterfeit components
Rapid system deployment for meeting immediate battlefield needs
Lead-free challenges in military avionics
Import/export (ITAR) compliance challenges when dealing with US government
Global positioning systems (GPS) in avionics
Defense avionics for targeting
Aerial weaponry, including smart bombs with GPS-based avionics
Satellite avionics innovations and geospatial imagery
Wrist computer systems and digital flight gloves for pilots
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G technologies on the battlefield (manned and unmanned aircraft)
Innovative avionics on the horizon, for the future force
Voice and touch-screen control in the cockpit
Helicopter/rotorcraft avionics
Market/community concerns, including lack of new pilots, reduced flight hours, new taxes and fees, noise ordinances
Meeting regulatory requirements; financial concerns, business cases, advice, tools
Market analysis and outlook for commercial and defense rotorcraft
Helicopter terrain avoidance warning systems (HTAWS)
Situational Awareness
Glass cockpit upgrades in defense and civil helicopter platforms
Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS). Should this be fitted on more aircraft?
NVG Technologies, issues & solutions
Modifying, retrofitting new and existing rotorcraft for myriad applications (Medevac, oil and gas, etc.)
Hybrid and electric rotorcraft designs, innovations
Flight data recording, transmission, analysis, and storage systems for helicopters
Leveraging open standards and COTS technology for helicopter cockpit retrofits
