Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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The FAA has commissioned the first new secondary radar supplied by Indra Group USA, the air traffic management technology provider announced on Tuesday. Installed in Putnam, Oklahoma, the equipment is among 185 primary and secondary radars Indra will provide under an initial $342 million Radar System Replacement program contract.
In January, the FAA announced that it had <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2026-01-06/faa-selects-collins-indra-radar-contracts">awarded</a> contracts to both Indra and RTX for the installation of up to 612 radars by June 2028. The initial phase covers 410 ground-based air traffic control radars split among both contractors, with the remainder anticipated to be awarded in upcoming years. The radar award followed an earlier FAA contract that Indra received to provide 46,000 new radios and associated ground support.
Indra Group USA is producing the radars at its 125,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility, which it recently opened in Olathe, Kansas. That facility was designed to accommodate the necessary ramp-up in production capacity to meet a demanding delivery timeline for the new radars. In addition, the Olathe site will handle high-volume communications and defense technology production, including the Nexcom digital radios that will be capable of analog and voice-over-Internet-protocol operations.
“The commissioning of Indra Group USA’s first radar in Putnam is an achievement that demonstrates our role as a trusted technology partner to the FAA,” said Víctor Martínez, executive v-p of air traffic management at Indra Group.

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