Boeing has selected two suppliers for key elements of the 777X avionics system and digital backbone, yielding the status quo for some Boeing 787 providers and a changing of the guard for others. The contracts are the latest in a series of key 777X awards from Boeing, which intends to complete firm configuration for the widebody around mid-2015. In the upset department, Boeing has selected General Electric's open architecture common core system (CCS) for the 777X data backbone rather than the Honeywell-provided aircraft information management system and Rockwell Collins full-duplex-switched Ethernet backbone for the 787.
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