ITT Exelis will develop, design, implement and maintain approach procedures at five airports for the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA said it selected Exelis as a prime contractor through a competitive process on the System Engineering 2020 contract, part of the agency’s NextGen air traffic control program. The McLean, Va.-based technology contractor will work with subcontractor Naverus, a [...]
Raytheon Co. has received a $30.1 million contract extension from the Federal Aviation Administration for satellite navigation support services, the company announced Tuesday. The Waltham, Mass.-based contractor continue to manage the agency’s Wide Area Augmentation System for an additional two years. The company has served as the prime contractor for the system since it was [...]
ITT Exelis has built a team of contractors in pursuit of the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Data Communications Integrated Services contract, ITT Exelis announced Monday. The team now includes: General Dynamics AT&T Northrop Grumman Computer Sciences Corp. Rockwell Collins Raytheon “The outstanding pursuit team we have assembled has ensured all data communications system aspects – ground infrastructure, avionics, [...]
General Dynamics‘ C4 systems business unit has received a $6.5 million order from the Federal Aviation Administration for more than 1,000 CM-300/350 series air traffic control radios. Military aircraft use the ultra-high frequency radios to communicate with air traffic controllers when flying in national airspace. According to a company release, the order was made under a [...]
Michael Wilson is the president of ITT’s information systems division, a position he has held since January 2010. The division provides network fusion, data integration and critical decision support services for the agencies of the U.S. government. Wilson previously served as vice president of ITT’s communication, intelligence and information systems unit. In that role, he [...]
The Federal Aviation Administration has selected MarkLogic Corp. to operate its emergency operations network, which FAA uses to monitor and track severe weather and emergencies. “The organization required a technology solution that was capable of taking multiple document types and feeds and making sense of the information,” said Randall Jackson, vice president of MarkLogic’s public sector [...]
ITT Defense recently signed a two-year agreement with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to provide its Symphony OpsVue flight tracking and situational awareness system for flight training programs at its Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., campuses. ITT says the application will offer students a complete and accurate real-time view of airway and airport activity, which [...]
