Honeywell Defense Avionics System designs and manufactures a number of highly advanced control and display technologies for military aircraft and surface vehicles. Its customers include the U.S. Department of Defense and its prime contractors, and allied nations under licensed export agreements.

Defense Avionics Systems continues the Honeywell tradition of leadership in avionics and control systems in its military marketplace with high-performance electronic systems for military vehicles — from transports, bomber, fighters and rotorcraft to ground vehicles — it helps customers meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of today's military environment.

The approximately 1,400 employees at Defense Avionics Systems deliver technology and products that make a tremendous difference in combat, peace keeping and humanitarian missions throughout the world.

Items produced at the division's Albuquerque plant include advanced display processors, color multifunction cockpit displays (active matrix liquid crystal displays), communication/navigation/identification management systems, digital terrain systems, flight control and stabilization systems, flight management systems, mission processors and vehicle management systems. Its Phoenix support center is a dedicated facility that provides modification, repair and/or retrofit for the division's products and is rated world-class with a record of 100 percent on-time delivery at 100 percent quality standards.

Defense Avionics System's products can be found on most of the major U.S. military aircraft including:

B-1B bomber — Flight control system for stability and maneuverability, gyro stabilization system for attitude and heading information, defensive display set used for electronic warfare and weapons systems operators, and a vertical situation display.

B-2 bomber — Under contract to Northrop Grumman, Honeywell is producing a 300 megabyte data storage and retrieval unit for the Air Force's newest bomber.

F-15 fighter — Honeywell's prototype of a commercially based, advanced multi-purpose display core processor recently completed its first flight test on the F-15E.

F-16 fighter — Honeywell has been a member of the F-16 team since 1982 and recently developed an advanced display processor with increased processing power. Color multifunction displays produced in the Albuquerque plant are part of the Lockheed Martin European mid-life updated and Taiwan F-16 programs; a lower-cost version of the color display will update the entire U.S. Air Force F-16 fleet.

F-18 fighter — Honeywell systems on the F-18 night attack program include a full-color, real-time digital moving map systems and a digital air data computer. The advanced multipurpose display core processor being tested on the F-15 can also be used on the F-18.

Honeywell also produces many other systems for such aircraft is the C-130J and C-17 transports, OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and V-22 helicopters and the Joint Strike Fighter, to name a few.

In a recent expansion of its market of interest, Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems was selected in early December, 1977 by United Defense, L.P. (United Defense) to provide display and digital map products for Crusader, the US Army's premier ground vehicle development program.

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