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management of arrivals and departures and Airways Systems to implement STARS over cabinets, cavity filters and controllers. The
will help operators supply ATC services even an 18-month period at TRACONs in New installation sites will include South Africa’s
when Vietnam’s air traffic density increases. York, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, northern major airports, O.R. Tambo International
The agreement also comprises eight video and southern California, St. Louis, Louisville, Airport in Johannesburg and Cape Town
wall positions, installed into other VATM Minneapolis, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. International Airport. Combined, more than
remote towers. Selex ES will also provide STARS, a standard system used by both 27 million passengers fly through these two
services related to the installation, including the FAA and the Department of Defense, airports each year. The ATC communications
the testing and setting up of the systems. provides guidance for departing and arriving equipment will replace legacy Park Air
This contract may open further options for aircraft in the airport terminal area. “The systems installed in 1997.
Selex ES in the near future. It also represents Raytheon-developed system replaces “I am extremely proud we were selected
a success which further identifies Selex ES several generations of existing terminal to deliver such an important upgrade to
as one of the major players in the worldwide automation systems, providing savings in our own radio systems deployed across
ATC business. Selex ES is also currently life-cycle costs. The system brings additional South Africa. This successful long-term
involved in the new Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic safety and capacity management to terminal relationship Northrop Grumman has built
Control Centre (KL ATCC) at the Kuala automation and is a cornerstone of NextGen, with our customer is a testament not only
Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), Sepang. the FAA’s airspace modernization initiative. to the outstanding quality of our products
The project is on track and is expected By 2019, STARS will be installed in every FAA but also to the trust in our customer support
to be completed by March 2019. Upon radar facility,” the official says. services,” says Milligan. “Twenty years is a
completion, the new KL ATCC will feature a long time to sustain top-tier performance.
new air traffic management system that is Northrop Grumman Park Air We are delighted the customer has the
capable of handling an increasing number Systems confidence we can do the same for the
of aircraft traffic at KLIA and Kuala Lumpur Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems next 20 years.” Northrop Grumman was
International Airport 2 (KLIA2). which supplies communication systems for awarded the contract by prime contractor
airspace operations worldwide celebrates and in-country partner AME Air Traffic
Raytheon the 50th anniversary of its founding this Management (Pty) Ltd. The end customer
According to a Raytheon’s spokesman, the year. “Park Air Systems will supply air traffic is Air Traffic and Navigation Services, which
company’s air traffic management systems control (ATC) communication systems provides air traffic, navigation, training and
provide improved safety, capacity, efficiency equipment in a nationwide upgrade across associated services within South Africa
and environmental benefits required to South Africa,” says Danny Milligan, managing and a large part of the Southern Indian and
accommodate the forecasted increase in air director, Park Air Systems, the U.K.-based Atlantic Oceans, comprising approximately
traffic around the world. Air traffic programs subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. The 10 per cent of the world’s airspace.
include Digital Airport Surveillance Radar contract will utilise the Park Air T6 Radio,
(DASR) which is a solid-state, terminal area with more than 550 VHF units deployed
air traffic control radar that can be controlled to 50 sites. Other system elements will
and monitored from multiple locations. include Park Air’s remote control and Optimal use of air traffic
management
and
control
Another programme- Deployable Radar monitoring system (RCMS), multi-access systems could save nine
Approach Control (D-RAPCON) is an “air remote control (MARC) server, integrated million tonnes of fuel annually
traffic control system in a box” and has the
capability to bring instant air traffic control
to the battlefield or a disaster site.
Raytheon’s Joint Precision Approach and
Landing System (JPALS) is an all-weather,
all-mission landing system based on Global
Positioning System (GPS). It provides
landing guidance for fixed and rotary wing
aircraft and features anti-jam protection.
Raytheon, which bagged the 2016 Industrial
Award from Air Traffic Control Association
for modernizing key air traffic systems that
control the most complex and congested
airspaces in the United States, worked
in partnership with the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), the National Air Traffic
Controllers Association and Professional
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