Tag Archives: Air Traffic Control

Matthew Gilligan, vice president of navigation and modernization solutions at Raytheon, has said that the company’s Skyler surveillance radar will help address challenges in air traffic management, which now include emerging urban air mobility platforms.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 21, 2020 — The Federal Aviation Administration  Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) to upgrade a system that helps airport personnel manage the arrival and departure of aircraft, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.

Raytheon has partnered with AirMap, an airspace management platform developer, to combine the latter’s platform with the former’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System to help small unmanned aerial system operators comply with airspace regulations.

Raytheon has developed an air traffic control system that consolidates the functions of various airspace management platforms, including keyboards, trackballs and monitors.

Raytheon and Frequentis USA have partnered to build a lower-cost alternative to air traffic control towers operating at airports.

TransLumen Technologies has delivered a set of training-tailored mobile game apps with Science Applications International Corp under an effort supporting the Federal Aviation Administration.

Pete Iversen, program manager at Collins Aerospace, has said the company is already implementing their clarity noise reduction technology to potentially address the Federal Aviation Administration’s need for an advanced air traffic control system.

Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic plans to solicit multiple contractors to create engineering support services that will design and develop air traffic control, meteorology and oceanography systems, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice. These new systems will also assist aviation command, control, communications, computer, combat system, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

Raytheon has produced a sense-and-avoid radar technology for drone testing operations at Ohio's Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport. The airport will use the system to trial the safety of small drones at tests that would take place within a 200-square-mile facility, the company said Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 29, 2019 — The U.S. Navy named seven companies that have been selected to provide engineering support for U.S. military air traffic control and landing systems under a potential $98.6M multi-award contract, GovCon Wire reported Friday. The Department of Defense said Thursday the contract tasks BAE …

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have partnered to compete for a multi-agency program aimed at modernizing U.S. air traffic control and surveillance systems.

The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it will recompete a 10-year, $500M contract that seeks to update the agency’s Time Based Flow Management aviation platform, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The contract covers modernization services for the TBFM system designed to utilize flight, global positioning system, radar and weather data …

Raytheon plans to develop over the next decade an architecture meant to connect radar systems and allow simultaneous detection, tracking, definition, communication and analysis operations. The company said Friday it plans to use unified software and architecture to generate multiple perspectives from the visual coverage of various radars, and machine …

The U.S. Marine Corps has declared initial operational capability for the Northrop Grumman-built AN/TPS-80 ground/air task-oriented radar. Northrop said Wednesday the first two G/ATOR systems will be deployed to the Marine Air Control Squadrons 1 and 2. G/ATOR reached initial operational capability after Northrop delivered the first six radar systems to the Marine Corps …

Australia has awarded Thales a potential $941 million contract to deploy an air traffic control platform as part of the OneSKY program. The OneSKY project seeks to integrate military and civil airspace as well as advance the modernization of Australia’s oceanic airspace in an effort to ensure aviation safety and …