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Indonesia expands Comsoft deliveries (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

The training institution Sekolah Tinggi Penerbangan of Indonesia (STPI) reports installation of additional Comsoft products. After commissioning of Comsoft’s ATM automation solution in 2010, the ...
 

Croatia selects Comsoft AMHS (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

The Croatian air navigation service provider Croatia Control has selected Comsoft’s AMHS message solution which also acts as AFTN/AMHS gateway and as flight plan converter ...
 

Philadelphia licenses ITT airport systems (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Philadelphia International Airport has selected ITT Exelis Symphony OpsVue flight tracking and situational awareness system. Symphony OpsVue offers a real-time view of airway and airport ...
 

Qatar selects Frequentis voice switch (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Qatar CAA has selected Frequentis’ voice communication system (VCS) for Doha International Airport main fire control station. Frequentis is supplying its pure 3020x prepackaged system ...
 

Chile chooses Frequentis again (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Chilean ANSP DGAC has selected Frequentis’ VCS to provide voice communications at Valdivio, Osorno and Arica airports for delivery later this year. DGAC has now ...
 

Morocco selects Ricochet record and reply (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Ricochet AS will supply screen recording for Menara Airport in Marrakech under a contract awarded through Italian company Selex S.I. Ricochet has supplied more than ...
 

Harris backs up Baghdad (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Harris ATM Solutions has been awarded a contract to provide a back-up air traffic control system for Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. Harris will supply ...
 

STR order book grows (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

STR SpeechTech reports continued strong orders for its StarCaster ATIS solution. Over the past year, StarCaster was selected for installation by ANSPs in Azerbaijan, British ...
 

Aspen-Pitkin County Airport selects Searidge intrusion detection system (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (ASE) has selected Searidge Technologies to provide an intrusion detection solution for the perimeter adjoining the movement and non-movement areas of the ...
 

Cassidian certifies Mode 5 (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Cassidian reports completion of certification measurements of its MSSR 2000 I secondary radar by the AIMS programme office of the US Department of Defense. Concluding ...
 

Luciad takes to the cloud (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Luciad has recently developed a complete product portfolio that enables the development of cloud-based Geospatial Situational Awareness applications and services. This offering ranges ...
 

FAA selects Rockwell Collins' Head-up guidance (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

The FAA has selected Rockwell Collins' Head-up Guidance Systems (HGS) with synthetic and enhanced vision to support its NextGen implementation and applied research efforts. The ...
 

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin upgrade GPS (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Raytheon and Lockheed Martin completed the first significant integration milestone between Raytheon's Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) and Lockheed Martin's ...
 

Indra buys Park Air Systems Norway for Eur42m (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Indra acquired Park Air Systems Norway from its owner Northrop Grumman Denmark for Eur42 million in April 2012. The company is re-named Indra Navia, and ...
 

Kenya selects Indra airport management solution (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Kenyan air navigation service provider, KAA, has selected Indra to implement a system that will streamline planning of terminal operations at the Jomo Kenyatta (Nairobi) ...
 

Indonesia selects Rohde & Schwarz mobile IP-based control tower (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Rohde & Schwarz has delivered a fully equipped R&S MX400 mobile air traffic control tower to the Indonesian air traffic control authorities, Directorate General Civil ...
 

Harris communications for Dominican Republic and Uruguay (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Harris ATC Solutions (formerly Solacom) will supply its Liberty-STAR Voice Communication and Control System (VCCS) to the Cibao International Airport in Santiago de los Caballeros ...
 

Slovenia Control upgrades to Comsoft ARTAS V8B system (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

Comsoft has secured a contract for two ARTAS systems with the new V8B baseline for the new ATC Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, due to begin ...
 

Frequentis delivers NASA VCS (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

The NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida has accepted two Mission Operation Voice Enhancement (MOVE) VCS3020 systems supplied by Frequentis USA. The VCS3020 systems ...
 

US Navy adds Raytheon radar delivery (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

The US Navy has purchased two more radar systems from Raytheon as part of a continuing effort to replace outdated analog air traffic control systems ...
 

FAA extends WAAS contract (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

The FAA has awarded Raytheon a two-year contract extension, first awarded in 2003, to continue to provide services for the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), ...
 

NASA selects Saab Sensis airport surface management tool (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Saab Sensis for the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) “Adaptation of a Surface Management Tool to Multiple, ...
 

LightSquared amends Inmarsat agreement (ATC Global Insight edition 105)

LightSquared has reached agreement with Inmarsat to amend the cooperation agreement between the two companies to support its efforts to build a national ...
 

EIZO to upgrade monitors at Bremen and Langen centers (ATC Global Insight edition 104)

Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS) has selected EIZO’s latest 2K x 2K monitor, the Raptor SQ2802, for installation in air traffic control centers in Bremen and ...
 

Nepal selects Comsoft message solution (ATC Global Insight edition 104)

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) selected Comsoft to supply countrywide infrastructure for the processing and distribution of flight plans and related information in ...
 

SELEX ADS-B ground stations pass US tests (ATC Global Insight edition 104)

US manufacturer SELEX Systems Integration Inc reports successful completion of Level 1 qualification tests for its Model 3300 ADS-B radio in the US. The company ...
 

Telvent wins further helicopter business (ATC Global Insight edition 104)

Telvent GIT S.A has been selected to provide its weather monitoring service, MxVision AviationSentry Online, to Mont Blanc Helicopteres SAMU (MBH SAMU), a commercial helicopter ...
 

NATS Signs Two Year Contract Extension with Gatwick Airport (ATC Global Insight edition 104)

NATS UK has signed a contract to extend service provision at Gatwick Airport for a further two years. Gatwick Airport is the UK’s second largest ...
 

Thales upgrades Turkmenistan centre (ATC Global Insight edition 103)

Turkmenhowayollary State Civil Aviation Department (SCAD) of Turkmenistan has selected Thales to upgrade the ATM system at Ashgabat. The contract includes the company’s latest generation ...
 

Telephonics certifies IFF Interrogator (ATC Global Insight edition 103)

Telephonics Corporation has received confirmation from the US Department of Defense “Air Traffic Control Radar System Identification Friend or Foe Systems” Program Office that its ...
 

Peru selects Comsoft solution (ATC Global Insight edition 103)

The Corporación Peruana de Aeropuertos y Aviación Civil (CORPAC) has awarded a contract to Comsoft for the supply and installation of a fully integrated AIM ...
 

Northrop Grumman Park Air radios installed at Kandahar Air Base (ATC Global Insight edition 103)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems was awarded a contract by the NATO Consultation, Command and Control (NATO C3) Agency to provide a second air traffic ...
 

Micro Nav provides driver training at Stansted (ATC Global Insight edition 103)

Swissport UK has selected Micro Nav’s Airside Driver Training (ADT) simulator to train drivers at Stansted Airport. The simulator includes a 3D model of Stansted ...
 

Germany applauded for satellite-based procedures using EGNOS (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung received an award at the annual ATC Global Exhibition held in Amsterdam last week for the introduction of new approach procedures that ...
 

South Africa and Italy to work together overseas (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

ATNS of South Africa and ENAV of Italy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in the area of air traffic management and ...
 

Serco and DFS reinforce joint Middle East activities (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

Serco Middle East has announced it has reached an agreement with DFS of Germany to reinforce joint business activities in the Middle East. The partnership ...
 

Chile selects radar system (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Chile (DGAC) awarded Indra a contract for the provision of a new radar system and its implementation in ...
 

Colombia selects Thales solution…. (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

The Colombian Civil Aviation Authority has awarded Thales three ATM contracts. Thales will provide an Air Traffic Centre in San Andres island, 720 kms North ...
 

…launches FlyBrief, an iPAD pilot briefing application (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

Thales has introduced FlyBrief, a pilot briefing application on iPAD. FlyBrief enables pilots to create and prepare their flight briefing directly on their iPAD® through ...
 

…and extends its AIM and AMHS presence in Latin America (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

Thales reports three new successes in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia. In December 2011 Thales signed a contract with the Chilean Civil Aviation to provide an ...
 

Raytheon secures USD7 million military landing systems contract extension (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

Raytheon Company was selected in mid-March 2012 to provide engineering, technical and depot services in support of 15 Air Traffic, Navigation, Integration, and Coordination Systems ...
 

UFA installs Navy simulator (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

US simulator manufacturer UFA reports the installation and user training of the ATTower Tower Simulator at Naval Air Station (NAS) Joint Reserve Base (JRB) Fort ...
 

Cairns completed radar upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

Airservices has commissioned a new terminal area radar near Cairns Airport which will enhance surveillance of aircraft in the airspace around the airport. The AUD5.5 ...
 

Finland selects Comsoft wide area surveillance network (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

The Finish air navigation service provider and airport operator Finavia has ordered a total of 39 of Comsoft’s Quadrant ADS-B sensors and 12 transmitters to ...
 

Copperchase upgrades communications systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 102)

Copperchase has installed a TCS 990 Voice Communications and Control System (VCCS) at London Biggin Hill Airport. Copperchase worked with Dutch partners MEP to introduce ...
 

Cassidian showcases new ASR-NG radar (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

SCassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, has is highlighting at the Amsterdam event its new radar for the safe guidance of aircraft during ...
 

Dubai Airports selects Searidge for remote situational awareness and zone occupancy (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

Searidge Technologies has announced that Dubai Airports has selected the Searidge ATC Grade Video and IntelliDAR™ solutions for remote situational awareness and zone occupancy of ...
 

Schmid Telecom releases third generation voice communications system (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

Schmid Telecom has announced the release of its 3.5 system which can extend the traditional voice communications service with a number of supplementary services. This ...
 

Thales reports TopSky ATM system in Aruba will be operational by end of summer (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

The TopSky ATM system for the Oranjestad Queen Beatrix International airport will become operational by the end of summer this year, according to Thales. The ...
 

Intelcan awarded contract for AMHS in Roberts FIR… (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

Intelcan has been awarded a contract to supply and install its SkyCom AMHS. Designed to work in diverse communication environments the system reduces the cost ...
 

…commissions MSSR/PSR in Africa (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

Intelcan has commissioned a SkySurv PSR/MSSR Radar in Pico Basille, Equatorial Guinea. In operation for the past nine months, the SkySurv PSR/MSSR was commissioned prior ...
 

…passes ILS flight check in Guyana (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

Intelcan’s SkyNav ILS has successfully passed the Flight Check at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Timehri, Guyana. The Flight Check was performed by ASECNA. Located ...
 

…while ATM system passes factory acceptance testing in Sri Lanka (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

Intelcan has successfully completed the factory acceptance test for its SkyControl ATM for Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited at Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake, ...
 

Public to help FAA choose UAS experimental sites (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 3)

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has asked for public input on the agency’s selection process for six unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test sites. Once the ...
 

Searidge Selected for Remote Runway Surveillance System Trial at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Aerospace experts lead project to evaluate video system

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, March 6, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - ATC Global Stand R420 - Searidge Technologies, provider of ...
 

Six European ANPS further links with Commission and SESAR (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Six of Europe’s largest air navigation service providers represented in the A6 group (AENA, DFS, DSNA, ENAV, NATS and NORACON A6 Group) have met with ...
 

Spain selects SITA for air-ground radio network (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Entidad Pública Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (AENA), which manages air traffic control in Spanish airspace, has selected SITA to upgrade its air to ground ...
 

SESAR project awards announced at ATC Global 2012 (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) has announced the winners of the 2012 SESAR Project Awards. The awards recognise projects that delivered exemplary performance in ...
 

Intelcan opens ATC Training Facility in Montreal, Canada… (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Intelcan is expanding its R&D centre and manufacturing plant in Montreal, Canada, adding 6000 square feet. In addition to this space, another 4000 square feet ...
 

…achieves successful Flight Check and Commissioning at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe… (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Intelcan has passed the Flight Check and Commissioning for its Skynav ILS at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The flight check was performed by the South African ...
 

… is awarded ADS-B contract by Jordan CARC… (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Intelcan has been awarded a contract with Jordan Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission for the supply, installation and operation of its SkySurv ADS-B, for the Queen ...
 

…and commissions ATM and AMHS System in Suriname (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Intelcan has commissioned an ATM system for the Department of Civil Aviation in Suriname. The company has also commissioned a SkyCom AMHS in Suriname. ...
 

Adacel exhibits advanced Aurora and training systems (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Adacel is exhibiting its ICAO 2012 compliant Aurora ATM System at the ATC Global Exhibition and Conference. Also featured will be elements of the Company’s ...
 

Thales launches TopSky display…. (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Thales has launched its TopSky human-machine interface, a modular ATC display which allows controllers to integrate the next generation of ATC tools such as 4D ...
 

…..finalizes its largest country-wide ADS-B Multilateration System in Afghanistan…. (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

The trilateral cooperation between Afghanistan, Germany and Australia for Improvement of Civil Air Traffic Control in Afghanistan with a countrywide ADS-B/ MLAT system, has passed ...
 

….signs contract with ASECNA for a VOR/DME system…. (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Thales has signed a new contract with ASECNA, the agency for air navigation security in Africa and Madagascar, for the supply of a VOR/DME system ...
 

….delivers seven additional ATM radars in Brazil… (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Thales announces it has just delivered seven additional radars to support civil air-traffic management to the Brazilian Airspace Control Department (DECEA). In Barcelos, North-West of ...

 

….wins three new ATM contracts in Colombia…. (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Thales was awarded three new contracts to supply the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority with ATM systems. For the first time in the country, Thales will also ...
 

….presents FlyBrief, for iPAD®…. (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Thales continues to innovate in Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) by extending its solution with FlyBrief, a pilot briefing application on iPAD®. FlyBrief enables pilots to ...
 

FAB network meeting discusses safety (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Twenty-four CEOs and 50 other delegates - safety directors and other senior executives from Europe’s air navigation service providers (ANSPs) - met in Limassol, Cyprus, ...
 

…. and enables air-ground datalink capability for first SESAR I-4D flight (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

For the successful first I-4D flight performed as part of the SESAR programme on 10 February, Thales technologies supported a full sequence of data exchanges ...
 

Rohde & Schwarz radios for China…. (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

The China Air Traffic Management Bureau has purchased a total of 295 ATC radios from Rohde & Schwarz, to be installed at 20 locations in ...
 

…supports DFS radio modernization… (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Rohde & Schwarz will support DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH in modernizing 100 radio stations by the year 2018. This will enable DFS to switch from ...
 

….and provides new ATC comms system for Parchim International (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

Rohde & Schwarz Systems GmbH will provide Parchim International Airport in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with a state-of-the-art ATC communications system that includes the fully IP-based R&S VCS-4G ...
 

Saab Sensis Aerobahn chosen for New York/JFK (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has selected Saab Sensis Corporation to provide its Aerobahn airport surface management system and departure ...
 

PrismTech’s OpenSplice Gateway "boosts operational and information systems convergence" (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

PrismTech has released its OpenSplice Gateway™, a disruptive technology to seamlessly integrate real-time mission- and business-critical operational and information Systems. The Gateway brings an integration ...
 

SELEX shows new ATM system and display (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

SELEX SIstemi Integrati is exhibiting its Integrated Surface-En Route ATM system at ATC Global 2012, simulating those in operation in Bulgaria, Malaysia, Qatar, Romania, Turkey ...
 

SITA and EGIS provide NATS with data-link system (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

SITA and Egis - through its subsidiary Egis Avia - have announced that they have been selected by NATS to provide the air traffic ...
 

IHS Jane’s award winners announced (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

IHS Jane’s announced the winners of its 2012 Jane’s ATC Awards.
    • Operational efficiency (for improving ATM operational efficiency) – Airports Authority of India
    • ...
 

University of Alaska Anchorage receives UFA ATTower® ATC Training Simulator (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 2)

UFA, Inc has announced that it successfully completed the installation and commissioning of an ATTower simulator at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). The simulator ...
 

Eurocontrol predicts 1.3% traffic decline for 2012 (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

The number of flights in Europe is set to fall by 1.3% this year compared to 2011, reflecting the continent’s economic problems and the recent ...
 

LightSquared denied broadband licence (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

The US Federal Communications Commission has denied LightSquared the right to start mobile broadband services as they risk interference with aircraft navigation systems. It also ...
 

ICAO appoints Raymond Benjamin to second year term as Secretary General (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has appointed Raymond Benjamin as Secretary General of the Organization for a second three-year term, from ...
 

FAA starts flight efficiency programme at Atlanta and Charlotte (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Acting Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta and aviation partners have kicked off a collaborative effort to make air traffic control more efficient, help ...
 

Peru launches Green Skies project (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

LAN Airlines flew Latin America’s first continuously guided flight from takeoff to landing using Performance-based Navigation (PBN) technology at the end of February 2012. The ...
 

Germany sends controller-pilot data messages at Karlsuhre (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Deutsche Flugsicherung became the first national ANSP to introduce controller-pilot data link communications (CPDLC) for upper area control at its control centre in Karlsruhe in ...
 

Italy signs A-CDM agreement (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

SEA, SocietàEserciziAeroportuali, and ENAV, the Italian Company for Air Navigation Services, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to implement the A-CDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making) ...
 

Harris modernizes Indonesian airport ATC systems (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Harris Corporation has been awarded two contracts to modernize the air traffic control systems (ATC) at two regional airports in Indonesia. Harris will supply ...
 

DFS exhibits Mode-S interrogator code conflict alerter (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH will be presenting, for the first time, the Mode S Interrogator Code Conflict Alerter (MICCA) at its stand H208. This solution ...
 

GE Aviation links with GeoEye on 3D airport maps and high-resolution Earth imagery (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

GE Aviation has announced its agreement with GeoEye to provide the aviation industry with ICAO-compliant terrain and obstacle aeronautical data derived from GeoEye’s high resolution ...
 

Comsoft to supply India with ADS-B systems (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has selected Comsoft to develop ADS-B installations across the country, the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. A ...
 

ITT Exelis announces OpsVue new release (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

ITT Exelis has announced the release of OpsVue v. 1.7, the first flight tracking and situational awareness system of its kind to incorporate real-time data ...
 

Skyguide chooses ATRiCs synthetic surveillance data (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Skyguide has chosen ATRiCS to provide a vendor-independent simulation tool for testing, validating and calibrating the SwissAirport Movement Area Control System (SAMAX) at Zurich and ...
 

Eizo introduces compressed data recorder system and new Raptor (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

EizoNanao Technologies (EIZO) has introduced its Re/Vue Mini, the second product in its family of recording systems designed to capture, compress and archive video data ...
 

Raytheon launches mobile ATC system to international customers… (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Raytheon Company’s Mobile Air Traffic Control (MATC) system, which provides critical air traffic services when existing infrastructure has been damaged or doesn’t exist, makes its ...
 

…and wins contract to monitor wind-farm radar performance (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Raytheon Company has been chosen by the Netherlands Ministry of Defence to upgrade the air traffic control radar system at the Royal Netherlands Air Force ...
 

Adder demonstrates command and control technologies (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Adder Technology, the User Interface (U.I.) Anywhere specialist, is demonstrating its tower extension and switching solutions at ATC Global 2012. The command and control solution ...
 

Airbus supports safer aircraft landings with ELISE (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Airbus has launched a specialised consulting service to help improve the safety of landing operations at airports around the world, leveraging the capabilities of its ...
 

Alaska installs UFA simulator (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

UFA reports the installation and commissioning of an ATTower simulator at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). The simulator is installed at the UAA Aviation ...
 

ENAV and Vitrociset sign MoU (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Massimo Garbini and Antonio Bontempi, CEO respectively of ENAV and of Vitrociset signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the development of commercial activities on foreign ...
 

Vaisala detects one billionth lightning strike (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Vaisala's Global Lightning Data GLD360, the largest single source of real-time lightning information around the globe, has recorded its one billionth lightning strike. The GLD360 ...
 

CSSI supports FAA RVSM programme (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

The FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center’s (WJHTC) Separation Standards Analysis Branch (ANG-E61) recently recorded its 15,000th GPS Monitoring unit (GMU) flight for the Reduced ...
 

Fusion Marshall Team grows (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Fusion Air Traffic Management has added industry specialists and qualified providers BT, Moog Fernau, Park Air Systems and Frequentis. Fusion has been established to bid ...
 

Lockheed Martin WindTracer for Thailand (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) will install a Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] WindTracer® Doppler lidar system at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport as part of its ...
 

Saab Sensis Wide Area Multilateration selected for Korea (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Lotte has selected Saab Sensis Corporation to deploy a Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system for surveillance of flights operating in close proximity to the Lotte ...
 

Airbus AIRE demonstration flights (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Airbus has announced a series of improved air traffic management procedures and reduced fuel consumption programmes:

The results of the second wave of European flight trials ...
 

C Speed launches Lightwave radar (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

C Speed, LLC is launching its LightWave S-band radar solutions that include ATC upgrades, air surveillance systems, and complete wind turbine clutter mitigation solutions at ...
 

Comsoft announces Finland, India and Peru contracts (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

Comsoft has announced the following contract awards at the exhibition:
  • FINAVIA of Finland: WAM implementation for the Southwest of ...
 

NILU develops ash warning service (ATC Global Insight – Show Daily – Day 1)

The volcanic eruptions in Europe these last years have displayed a need for more information to be provided to the aviation industry. The Norwegian Institute ...
 

Northrop Grumman’s electronic flight strip system achieves successful site acceptance test at Prague Ruzyne International Airport (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Northrop Grumman Corporation?s (NYSE:NOC) Europe-based air traffic management subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has undergone a successful Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for the NOVA ...
 

FAA awards USD388 million contract to SRA team (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

The FAA has awarded a team led by SRA International a three-year contract worth up to USD388 million plus two options for two years each ...
 

AENA selects Thales MSS solutions (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

AENA has selected Thales España to design and implement a surveillance system for the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Airport in Malaga. Thales will supply its Multilateration ...
 

Switzerland adopts new controller tools (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Skyguide adopted two new functions at its Geneva control centre on 9 February to support its controllers in their radar work. In a second step, ...
 

CISCEA selects Indra transportable radar solution (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Indra reports its first contract from Brazilian Airspace Control System Implementation Commission (CISCEA). The project includes the delivery of two transportable radar systems (MSSR Mode ...
 

Lockheed Martin partners with Indonesian company (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Lockheed Martin signed a teaming agreement with Indonesian technology firm PT CMI Teknologi to jointly pursue the National Airspace Surveillance – Republic of Indonesia (NASRI) ...
 

Zimbabwe takes delivery of Intelcan ILS (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Intelcan has successfully deployed its SKYNAV ILS N8000 at the J.M. Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The remote control (RC) and remote monitoring maintenance ...
 

UFA reports new contracts… (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas, has selected UFA’s ATTower and ATCoach products for its new, state-of-the-art radar and tower training facility.

Meanwhile ANTA of ...
 

…and accreditation of German simulator (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

The UFA ATC simulators in use by the US Army at Illesheim, Grafenwoehr, and Ansbach in Germany have received formal accreditation by the US Army ...
 

Norway adopts Quintiq solution (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Avinor has selected Qunitiq’s ANSP staff planning solution across all Norwegian control facilities. The company is responsible for 500 controllers operating from Oslo, Bergen and ...
 

Prague takes delivery of electronic flight strips (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, completed successful Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for the NOVA 9000 Electronic Flight Strip System (EFSS) at the Prague Ruzyne International ...
 

New control tower at Manchester International will feature Precision Applications (ATC Global Insight edition 101)

Towards the end of 2012 the Precision Applications Veristore ATC Recording System will be moved to the new Manchester International Airport control tower. The new ...
 

C4i expands national air defence system in Thailand (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

C4i received a further order to add to its existing nationwide Communications System for the Royal Thai Air Force in January 2012. C4i will deliver ...
 

Airbus teams with ATRiCS to improve surface management (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Airbus ProSky has teamed with ATRiCS to market the company’s airport surface management system (SMAN). SMAN automatically switches on the green taxiway lights in front ...
 

Germany selects Frequentis’ DIVOS 3 Log… (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

DFS awarded Frequentis a contract in November 2011 to supply its DIVOS 3 log virtual server solution to record all current and future forms of ...
 

… as Spain upgrades Frequentis VCS (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Frequentis and Spanish partner INSTER have installed a new 2-position IP-based backup system for the voice communication system (VCS) at Zaragoza Airport, Spain. This is ...
 

…and company announces the release of SmartFPLconverter (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Frequentis has announced the availability of its smartFPLconverter, a flight plan and ATS message converter for those ANSPs who are not in a position to ...
 

Raytheon upgrades US weather service forecasting system (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Raytheon reports the next generation of the National Weather Services' (NWS) Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), which was developed, tested and fielded by Raytheon ...
 

Sylt Airport selects delair flight strips (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Sylt Airport is replacing its paper control strips with the electronic flight strip system called focus SE from delair Air Traffic Systems. Focus SE is ...
 

Egypt selects Comsoft AIDA-FPL (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Egypt’s air navigation service provider NANSC has contracted Comsoft’s flight plan converter AIDA-FPL to perform conversions to the new flight plan format in line with ...
 

FAA awards MDA follow-on contracts (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

The FAA awarded MDA contracts worth US$7.6 million in January 2012 to continue the upgrade to the FAA’s Instrument Procedure Development System (IPDS), as part ...
 

Thales renews Mexican contract (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Mexican Air Navigation Service Provider SENEAM selected Thales technology for its air navigation renovation programme for the second consecutive year in January 2012. Thales will ...
 

Systems Interface reports three new contracts (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Systems Interface reports a contract for the installation and commissioning of Non Directional Beacons (NDB) by the Air Navigation Administration of the Government of the ...
 

Ricochet returns to Brazil (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Infraero selected Ricochet AS recording systems for 10 airports in Brazil in January 2012. Equipment delivery includes audio and screen recording and centralized monitoring and ...
 

Copperchase delivers AIS systems (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Bristol international Airport took delivery of an upgrade to its Copperchase Flight Data Management System (FDMS), and introduced Copperchase ATC IDS (Information Display System) at ...
 

BARCO introduces third generation video wall (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Barco has introduced a new generation of LEDs in its liquid-cooled LED video walls that boost brightness levels by 33 per cent. Barco claims the ...
 

Luciad unveils FAA AIXM 5 Viewer (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

Luciad has developed an AIXM 5 Viewer for the FAA. The AIXM 5 viewer offers a solution for rapidly visualizing AIXM 5.0 and AIXM 5.1 ...
 

NICE exceeds 1,000 installations of NICE Inform (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

NICE reports that it has installed more than 1,000 NICE Inform incident information management solutions globally. NICE Inform captures and fuses diverse multimedia content, thereby ...
 

NTT DATA concludes contract with JICA for supplying flight procedure design system to Vietnam (ATC Global Insight edition 100)

NTT DATA was selected after winning the bid for a system for capacity development relating to the design of Performance Based Navigation (PBN) flight procedures. ...
 

Egis wins second phase EC cooperation work (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

Egis is the prime contractor of a consortium formed with DGAC, ENAC, AVSEC, ECORYS, AMEC and St Petersburg State University selected by the European Commission ...
 

Namibia inaugurates Thales ATC centre (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

Three years after Thales signed the contract with the Namibian Directorate of Civil Aviation (NDCA), the country's new air traffic control centre has now entered ...
 

Saab Sensis wins airport surface surveillance contract… (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

The FAA has selected Saab Sensis Corporation for the Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (ASSC) programme. The FAA has incrementally funded USD5 million of the USD54 ...
 

…and US Airways contracts at Charlotte, Philadelphia and Phoenix (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

US Airways has selected Saab Sensis Corporation’s Aerobahn airport surface management system for use at its three hubs located at Charlotte-Douglas, Philadelphia and Phoenix Sky ...
 

Intelcan equipment completes acceptance tests in Guyana (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

Intelcan’s Skycontrol ATM and Skycom AMHS have successfully passed acceptance testing for the Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Timehri. Constructed in a main/standby configuration, ...
 

Rohde & Schwarz wins repeat business in China (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

China’s CAAC (Air Traffic Management Bureau) has purchased a total of 294 Rohde & Schwarz Series4200 ATC radios to be installed at 20 locations in ...
 

Single Sky’s Industry Consultation Body returns to Helios (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

Helios has won its third consecutive contract to provide technical support services to the Industry Consultation Body (ICB) for the Single European Sky. The ICB ...
 

Russia certifies ERA equipment (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

Russia’s Interstate Aviation Commission has awarded ERA certification for its equipment to meet requirements for Wide Area Augmentation (WAM) and Height Monitoring Unit (HMU) in ...
 

Ukraine awards SELEX support services contract (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

UkSATSE has awarded SELEX Sistemi Integrati a contract to provide logistic support for the five primary ATCR33S and the five secondary SIR-S radars supplied by ...
 

ARINC and Airtel upgrade MUAC data link (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

ARINC reports it has upgraded, together with its technology partner Airtel ATN, the router technology in its ATN/VDLM2 air/ground network at Maastricht Upper Area Centre ...
 

DWI announces web-based GNSS RAIM/RNP prediction service (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

DW International (DWI) has launched a website user interface that enables airlines and ANSPs to perform RAIM predictions. Previously customers accessed real-time RAIM predictions and ...
 

Vaisala divests wind profiler business to Scintec (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

Vaisala has signed a contract to divest its wind profiler business to Scintec AG. Vaisala continues to offer LAP wind profilers as components in its ...
 

Telephonics adds ADS-B function to IFF interrogator (ATC Global Insight edition 99)

Telephonics reports delivery of its first multi-channel ADS-B function on its IFF Interrogator product line. This capability was delivered to FMV (The Swedish Defence Material ...
 

Data Comm teams align (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

More than 20 companies have joined the leadership team put together by ITT Exelis to bid the FAA Data Communications Integrated Services (DCIS) contract, the ...
 

STR-SpeechTech partners with ARINC for digital solution (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

STR-SpeechTech has entered into a reseller agreement with ARINC to market and distribute ARINC’s new D-ATIS Link software client as part of STR’s StarCaster ATIS ...
 

Airservices moves to enterprise data warehouse solution (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Airservices has introduced a singe data warehousing solution to bring together a vast range of aviation-related information and improve data capture, reporting and analysis. Airservices ...
 

Gatwick Airport chooses Precision Applications Veristore Recording System. (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Precision Applications has been chosen to supply and install an ATC Recording System at London/Gatwick Airport. The new system will replace the current recording ...
 

Australia confirms commitment to harmonised civil military ATC systems (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

The Australian Defence Force and Airservices Australia reaffirmed their commitment to greater harmonisation at an industry supplier briefing session in Canberra in December 2011. The ...
 

DSNA awards Thales a fixed contract for 4-FLIGHT (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Thales has started work on a new flight information system for the French Air Navigation Service Provider (DSNA). The DSNA awarded Thales a Framework Agreement ...
 

Amsterdam Schiphol switches on runway incursion alerts (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

LVNL of the Netherlands began official use of the Runway Incursion Alerting System (RIASS) at Amsterdam Schiphol in mid-December 2011 as an important new safety ...
 

Raytheon to help US Air Force meet ADS-B equipage targets (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

The US Air Force has selected Raytheon Company to incorporate ADS-B capability into its suite of APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponders to comply ...
 

Azerbaijani selects ERA A-SMGCS solution (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

The Azerbaijan Air Navigation Service (AZANS) is installing a complete A-SMGCS at Heydar Aliyev international airport. Prime contractor ERA will deliver an air traffic control ...
 

Ricochet recording solution selected for Kosovo (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Recording supplier Ricochet AS reports a new contract to supply a record and replay solution for 80 audio sources to Pristina International Airport, Kosovo in ...
 

Comsoft wins ARTAS support service contract extension to 2015 (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

EUROCONTROL has extended its Centralised ARTAS Maintenance and Support Service (CAMOS) contract with German supplier Comsoft until 2015, the third extension to support the ARTAS ...
 

Namibia certifies WAM supplied by ERA (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

ERA reported operational status for its Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system deployed across Namibia in early December 2011. The WAM system was certified according to ...
 

Dusseldorf implements delair arosa capman (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Dusseldorf Airport is installing the arosa capman resource management software tool supplied by delair as part of several measures to optimize and harmonise airport processes. ...
 

Rockwell Collins teams with NASA for UAS project (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Rockwell Collins is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) control and non-payload communications (CNPC) data ...
 

Iceland selects Comsoft’s Quadrant ADS-B network (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Icelandic service provider ISAVIA selected Comsoft to supply and install a nationwide network of Quadrant ADS-B sensors in December 2011. Installations are due to start ...
 

Australia certifies Saab Sensis Precision Runway Monitor at Sydney (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia certified the Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) and Precision Runway Monitoring (PRM) supplied by Saab Sensis at Sydney Airport, ...
 

Stratech launches iFerret design competition (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Stratech Systems has launched a design competition to seek an iconic design for the next generation of the iFerret, the Foreign Objects & Debris (FOD) ...
 

Comsoft supports new flight plan conversion (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Comsoft reports not all organisations worldwide have made specific plans to meet the change in flight plan format due to be introduced in November 2012 ...
 

Inmarsat restructures to focus on core markets (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Global mobile satellite communications service provider Inmarsat is including its subsidiary companies within a new organisational structure that will align the Inmarsat business more closely ...
 

Sennheiser to supply headsets to NATS (ATC Global Insight edition 98)

Sennheiser has signed an agreement with NATS (National Air Traffic Services) in the UK to supply its ATC headsets to NATS A/C (Area Control) and ...
 

Daytona Beach tests NextGen technologies (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Saab Sensis Corporation has reported new developments of NextGen concepts and technologies at the Florida NextGen Test Bed (FTB) in Daytona Beach. Key projects, including ...
 

Booz Allen wins environmental management contract (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Booz Allen Hamilton has won a US9.7 million task order to support the US Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative ...
 

Thales expands AMHS network (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Thales reports its first fully operational Aeronautical Message Handling System (AMHS) link in Europe with completion of the Aeronautical Message Switching System (AERMAC) in Vienna ...
 

Switzerland selects Egis Avia and SITA data link solution (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Swiss provider skyguide has selected Egia Avia and partner SITA to provide data link communications in anticipation of the coming into force of the EC ...
 

Ricochet records in the Maldives (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Ricochet is supplying its Screen Recording solution with capacity to record up to 11 2Kx2K monitors to the Maldives in January 2012 under a control ...
 

China certifies NOVA 9000 A-SMGCS system (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has granted temporary certification to Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems for its NOVA 9000 airport surface movement guidance ...
 

NATS wins environmental award (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

NATS has been awarded the Operational Research Society’s President’s Medal for its work on the development of a new environmental performance metric. Steve Hammond, Capability ...
 

Manchester breaks ground on new control tower (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Work has started on a new 60 metre high tower at Manchester Airport due completion in early 2013. The control tower, located adjacent to the ...
 

CANSO releases second performance report (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

CANSO has published the latest edition of its Air Navigation Services (ANS) Performance report, providing an insight into the productivity, cost-effectiveness, price, revenue and profitability ...
 

Vaisala launches thunderstorm lightning database TLD100 and TLD200… (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Vaisala launched its Thunderstorm Total Lightning Database TLD100 and TLD200 in November 2011. The TLD100/200 is the storage module in the Vaisala Thunderstorm Information System ...
 

…and enhances lightning location accuracy (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Vaisala owns and operates the leading global lightning detection network, the Global Lightning Dataset GLD360, which now offers lightning data with greater location accuracy, improved ...
 

Metron Aviation opens New Jersey Office (ATC Global Insight edition 97)

Metron Aviation has opened a new office in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey near the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Centre to support research and ...
 

US Air Force approves STR-SpeechTech solutions (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

The US Air Force has accepted STR-SpeechTech’s StarCaster ATIS version 5 for inclusion on the Air Force evaluated/approved products list. StarCaster ATIS is a software ...
 

Nav Canada wins Dubai contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

The Engineering Projects group of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA-EP) has selected NAVCANatm technology to manage critical air traffic control information. Nav Canada’s electronic ...
 

US and UK begin first transatlantic AMHS links (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

In October the two air navigation service providers, NATS (UK) and FAA (USA), brought into operation the first transatlantic AMHS connection. Beforehand the two ANSPs ...
 

Kuwait selects Comsoft message handling solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) of Kuwait selected Comsoft’s AMHS and AIM system as subcontractor to prime contractor Indra. Comsoft’s CADAS system complies ...
 

Netherlands completes Maastricht communications upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems has announced that the first part of the air traffic management communications systems that it has delivered to Air Traffic ...
 

Newcastle selects Micro Nav’s BEST simulator (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

Newcastle International Airport (NIA) has selected Micro Nav to upgrade their training programme with the latest BEST Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulators. Micro Nav is ...
 

Cassidian cooperates with Enertrag (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

Cassidian, part of EADS aerospace group, has partnered with wind power company Enertrag to develop beacons for wind turbines. A Cassidian radar will be integrated ...
 

Met Office launches Weather Windows (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

The UK’s Met Office has launched a new weather service for airport operators. Weather Windows is a weather-based resource planning system. It enables ...
 

OMNIPOL acquires ERA (ATC Global Insight Edition 96)

ERA as, the former subsidiary of SRA International, has been acquired by OMNIPOL as of the Czech Republic. ERA supplies passive and active multilateration and ...
 

Saab Sensis WAM selected for Kyrgyz Republic (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

The United States Air Force Electronic System Center (ESC) has selected Saab subsidiary Saab Sensis Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) as the ATC sensor solution for ...
 

Frequentis smartMessenger operational in the Baltic… (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

Frequentis has delivered its smartMessenger system to customers in the countries of Denmark, Finland, and Latvia, where thousands of AMHS messages are being exchanged on ...
 

… and showcases new integrated controller working positions (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

SESAR project managers and other interested parties met in Vienna in September to coordinate work on a cornerstone of the single European sky: the iCWP ...
 

Netherlands Antilles selects Nav Canada controller tools (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

The Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) has selected NAVCANatm technology to equip two towers, Curacao and Bonaire, and the Curacao area control centre. Two ...
 

SELEX Sistemi Integrati wins Colombia and UK work (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

SELEX Sistemi Integrati has secured contracts to supply ATC systems in Colombia and the UK. In Colombia the contact was signed with the Unidad Administrativa ...
 

…and wins Thailand contract for KRONOS radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

SELEX has been awarded contracts to supply a KRONOS radar system both to the Royal Thai Navy and the Royal Thai Air Force.

The Royal ...
 

Comsoft reports further AMHS delivery (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

The air navigation service provider of the Republic of Srpska (Banja Luka) site accepted the Comsoft AIDA-NG aeronautical messaging solution in early November 2011. Comsoft ...
 

Ukraine retains LFV services (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

LFV through its subsidiary LFV Aviation Consulting will help develop the aviation sector in Ukraine. The project has already started and involves a review and ...
 

Entry Point North to train Kosovo controllers (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

The Entry Point North training academy in Malmoe, Sweden has been selected to train controllers at Prishtina International Airport in Kosovo for the next three ...
 

ARINC supports Iraqi Air Force (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

ARINC Engineering Services, LLC has completed the procurement, integration, testing, and installation of new tower systems and equipment for two bases of the Iraqi ...
 

Raytheon close to completing Dubai upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

Raytheon Company reports its AutoTrac III (AT3), installed at Dubai World Central's Al Maktoum International Airport, is scheduled to be operational next year. According to ...
 

Systems Interface completes Belfast solar upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

George Best Belfast City Airport has become the third UK airport to install solar powered LED runway safety lighting. The Aviation Renewables Solar Series Runway ...
 

London Southend selects Brüel & Kjær NoiseDesk (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

London Southend is the first European airport to select Brüel & Kjær’s NoiseDesk web-based noise abatement platform designed for regional airports in August 2011. NoiseDesk ...
 

Wagga Wagga ILS opens for business (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

Airservices Australia has commissioned a new AUS1.6 million instrument landing system (ILS) at Wagga Wagga Airport in early November 2011. The precision approach radio navigation ...
 

FAA approves Jeppesen obstacle database (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

The FAA has approved Jeppesen’s processing of navigation obstacle database in accordance with FAA Advisory Circular 20-153A and RTCA/DO-200A standards. The database contains approximately 750,000 ...
 

ITT Exelis begins independent operations (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

ITT Exelis has completed its spin-off from ITT Corporation and initiated operations as an independent, solutions provider. The USD5.9 billion, 21,000-person company offers a diverse ...
 

Avtech of Sweden prepares initial public offering (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

Avtech plans to launch a public offering. The company provides commercial products and services in digital air traffic management solutions. The company’s patented product AventusNowCast™ ...
 

Cassidian wins Berlin Brandenburg Airport radio contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 95)

Cassidian has won a contract to extend its TETRAPOL digital radio network to cover the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt, which is currently the ...
 

Taiwan inaugurates new ATM system (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Taiwan’s Air Navigation & Weather Services (ANWS) inaugurated the new ATM system supplied by Thales in late October 2011. The Eurocat system includes Thales’ Multi ...
 

Canberra upgrades radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Airservices Australia has commissioned into service a transportable terminal area radar at Sandra’s View, Canberra, to provide air traffic surveillance while a permanent radar at ...
 

Thales wins ASECNA upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

The Agency for Air Navigation Security in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) selected Thales to modernise the air traffic control centres in six countries including Senegal, ...
 

DFS selects Rohde & Schwarz radios (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung has selected Rohde & Schwarz to modernise 100 radio stations by the year 2018. This will enable DFS to switch from 25 ...
 

HITT expands overseas order book (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

HITT reports orders worth EUR1.6 million to supply A-SMGCS systems to Baku International Airport in Azerbaijan and to upgrade the surface movement guidance system at ...
 

Nav Canada selects Saab Sensis’ multilateration system at Calgary International (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

NAV CANADA is deploying Saab subsidiary Saab Sensis Corporation’s multilateration system for surface surveillance and VeeLo NextGen vehicle locators at Calgary International Airport. The programme ...
 

Bulatsa selects Comsoft AMHS system (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Bulatsa of Bulgaria has selected Comsoft’s AIDA-NG to provide a national AMHS switch to handle flight plans and other ATS-related messages. The equipment supports both ...
 

Thales studies satellite control for unmanned aircraft systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Thales Alenia Space has won a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead a nine-month study regarding satellite communications solutions for Unmanned Aircraft ...
 

Asiana Airlines joins ARINC GLOBALink (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Asiana Airlines of South Korea has joined ARINC’s GLOBALink/Iridium data link communication service to provide aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) connectivity and delivery ...
 

Jeppesen introduces web-based runway analysis service (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Jeppesen, a unit of Boeing Flight Services, has introduced a Web-based runway analysis service that provides aviation operators with airport, runway and aircraft performance information. ...
 

Indra achieves CMMI maturity level 5 (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Indra has gained CMMI maturity level 5 of the Software Engineering Institute for its software engineering. Level 5 indicates high stability and productivity in software ...
 

Airbus completes Metron acquisition (ATC Global Insight Edition 94)

Airbus has completed its acquisition of Metron Aviation. The US company now operates as a subsidiary of Airbus Americas,
 

Spain selects Czech-Saerco tower team (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

AENA selected Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic (ANS CR), and Spanish partner company SAERCO SL to provide air traffic control services at La ...
 

Raytheon to upgrade air traffic management systems in Kyrgyz Republic… (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Raytheon Company reports a USD24 million contract to modernize air traffic management systems in the Kyrgyz Republic, including the country's main international airport near the ...
 

…as its ISO weather programme is recertified (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Raytheon reports recertification for its Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) programme under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 20000:2005, the first international standard for ...
 

SELEX expands ILS sales (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

SELEX Systems Integration Inc has won a sub-contract from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in October 2011 to supply its Model 2100 Instrument Landing Systems ...
 

Nav Canada selects Searidge video (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Nav Canada has selected Searidge Technologies to provide its ATC-Grade video system to improve situational awareness for controllers at London International Airport. The limited height ...
 

Indonesia introduces RNP approaches at three terrain-challenged airports (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Boeing and Lion Air are pioneering the use of precision navigation technology in South Asia with the introduction of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) flight operations. ...
 

US launches Greener Skies programme (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

The FAA awarded a USD3.1 million task order for Greener Skies Initiative 2 in early October 2011. A team led by Boeing has been selected ...
 

Boeing to collaborate with SELEX on SESAR and NextGen programmes (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Boeing has signed a memorandum of collaboration with SELEX Sistemi Integrati to work together on the Single Sky ATM Research (SESAR) programme and the US ...
 

Maastricht upgrades message gateway (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) completed replacement of its AFTN/CIDIN system with Comosft’s ATM Communication Gateway (ECG) technology in September 2011. The new ECG ...
 

ASDE-X roll-out completed at 35 US airports (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

The FAA has completed the 35th and final Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X) system supplied by Saab Sensis at major US airports. ASDE-X ...
 

NATS selects Saab Sensis’ WAM at Edinburgh (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

NATS UK has selected Saab Sensis Corporation’s Wide Area Multilateration system (WAM) for the location and identification of flights in the vicinity of Edinburgh Airport. ...
 

Airtel ATN and ARINC opens new ADS test facility (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Airtel ATN and partner ARINC opened a new commercial ATN test facility in Dublin in September 2011. Airtel ATN test equipment already operates at the ...
 

FAA extends Flatirons study contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

The FAA has awarded the remaining phases of the Airspace Capacity Study to Flatirons Solutions. Flatirons completed phase I of the three-year US1.3 million research ...
 

Noblis wins USD350 million FAA award (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

The FAA has selected Noblis as the prime contractor to provide support services for the Enterprise Communications Support Services (ECSS) contract worth up to USD350 ...
 

Airservices upgrades Sydney instrument landing systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Airservices is continuing upgrade works to instrument landing systems (ILS) at Sydney Airport as part of a major enhancement of such technology nationally. The work ...
 

NATS wins ATCA award (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

NATS received the 2011 Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Earl F. Ward Memorial Award for the deployment of Saab Sensis Corporation’s Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) ...
 

SITA opens Singapore command centre (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

SITA officially opened a global command centre in Singapore for the proactive monitoring and management of its communication and IT solutions used by hundreds of ...
 

Airways New Zealand sells first simulator overseas (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Airways New Zealand reports completion of Site Acceptance Testing for its 360° Total Control Simulator to South Africa's Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS). Total ...
 

NG Park Air supports collaborative decisions (ATC Global Insight Edition 93)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems has expanded its Airport Realtime Collaboration (ARC) portfolio to include new capabilities in passenger flow forecasting and queue time management. ...
 

ITT launches new flight tracking application for Alaskan airspace… (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

ITT Corporation launched a Web-based data visualization application at the ATCA annual convention October 2-5, 2011 in Washington designed to enhance the safety and operational ...
 

..and announces OpsVue service contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

ITT Corporation has signed a two-year agreement with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to provide its Symphony OpsVue flight tracking and situational awareness system for ...
 

Raytheon teams with AirDat and Metron Aviation for weather solution… (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Raytheon announced a new teaming agreement with AirDat LLC and Metron Aviation at the 56th ATCA convention in Washington. The partnership is designed to provide ...
 

…and introduces a deployable air traffic management system (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Raytheon introduced a deployable air traffic management system at the ATCA annual conference. Raytheon's solution for the US Air Force's Deployable Radar Approach Control (D-RAPCON) ...
 

NBP launches LED PAPI (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

The FAA selected New Bedford Panoramex Corporation (NBP) to replace legacy Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) systems powered by antiquated incandescent lamps with up to ...
 

Barco wins US display contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

The US FAA has selected Barco's ISIS 2Kx2K LCD main displays as a direct replacement for existing CRT displays installed in STARS (Standard Terminal Automation ...
 

NATS and Ferrovial selected to operate Spanish towers (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

AENA selected the joint bid from NATS and Spanish partner Ferrovial to provide air traffic control services at control towers at 10 Spanish airports: Alicante, ...
 

Europe expands AMHS links (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Comsoft reports the start of Europe’s second AMHS link between Bosnia and Vienna in September 2011. The Federal Directorate of Civil Aviation (FEDCAD) of Bosnia-Herzegovina ...
 

Iraq joins Middle East Ubitech AMHS network (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Iraq Civil Aviation Authority has selected Ubitech to supply its Ubimex AMHS system at Baghdad International Aiport. Ubimex supports the new flight plan format in ...
 

Australia commissions temporary radar for Cairns… (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Airservices Australia has installed a transportable radar to provide air traffic surveillance in the Cairns region while the permanent terminal area radar (TAR) at Redden ...
 

… and upgrades Gold Coast Airport control tower (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Airservices Australia is to refurbish and upgrade the control tower at Gold Coast Airport. The work, part of a program to modernise and upgrade 28 ...
 

Indra adds datalink capability in Kuwait (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Kuwait awarded Indra the implementation of an advanced data link communications for Kuwait city airport. Indra is supplying ...
 

Precision Applications to complete further installations by November. (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Precision Applications is currently installing seven ATC Recording Systems in the UK, all of which will be operational by the end of November 2011. ...
 

SkySoft-ATM records success in central Europe (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Germany’s DFS is the latest ANPS to select SkySoft-ATM’s new SkyRec Blackbox data recording system launched at the start of 2011. BlackBox will ...
 

UK airports choose Frequentis voice switch (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Three UK airports - East Midlands, SCATSTA-Shetland and London-Southend Airports have selected Frequentis communications systems to upgrade voice, adding to the UK installations by the ...
 

Micro Nav helps to train vehicle drivers at Heathrow (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Micro Nav reports a contract to supply their Airside Driver Training (ADT) simulator to dnata Ltd at London Heathrow. The ground handling company will use ...
 

Raytheon radar electronics cleared for production (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

FAA certified the new radar supplied by Raytheon for the Long Range Radar Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) in late September 2011. The new radar ...
 

Indonesian training centre selects NTT flight procedure design tool (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Indonesia’s DGCA and Education and Training Agency has selected NTT DATA’s PANADES flight procedure design system under a contract placed by Japan International Cooperation Agency ...
 

Evans to equip US control towers (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

The FAA has selected Evans Consoles to provide custom air traffic control (ATC) Tower console solutions in a contract worth up to USD9 million. The ...
 

Newcastle to upgrade record and replay system (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Copperchase and partner Ricochet are to upgrade the record and replay system at Newcastle International Airport in compliance with new screen recording requirements from the ...
 

UFA secures US Navy contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

The US Navy’s Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division has selected the ATTower Tower simulator supplied by UFA Inc for the 4th Marine Air ...
 

Thales acquires Omnisys (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

Thales has acquired 100 per cent of the capital of Omnisys, a Brazilian company headquartered in São Bernardo do Campo, near São Paulo. Omnisys has ...
 

BEST simulator passes site acceptance (ATC Global Insight Edition 92)

The main UK air navigation service provider NATS contracted Micro Nav to install a 2D tower simulator at Manchester Airport. The simulator is based on ...
 

BAE team to bid Project Marshall (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

Following a successful down select, BAE Systems announced its team to bid for the UK Joint Military Air Traffic Management Service (Project MARSHALL) in September ...
 

Indonesian expands training services (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

The Indonesian aviation school and training centre STPI has selected Comsoft’s AIM solution CADAS, AMHS and eAIP solution. THe equipment will allow AIS officers-to-be to ...
 

Indra completes first radar installations in India (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

Indra reports start up of four out of nine radar stations Indra is supplying to Airport Authority of India (AAI). The Chennai, Bellary, Bhopal and ...
 

Minneapolis deploys new controller display tool (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

Controllers at the Minneapolis Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) have started using a new tool developed by Lockheed Martin and the FAA to ...
 

Camp Bastion switches over to Frequentis (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

The newly constructed ATC tower at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan has gone live and is equipped with a Frequentis Voice Communication System (VCS). The main ...
 

MTECH supplies LLWAS to Lagos (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) reports successful installation of the Low Level Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, supplied ...
 

US Army approves UFA simulators (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

The UFA ATC simulators in use by the 2nd/130th Army National Guard Airfield Operations Battalion at Ft. Bragg received formal accreditation by the US Army ...
 

ARINC supports cockpit training for controllers (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

After a ten-year pause, US controllers will once again be allowed into the cockpits of commercial airline flights to observe operations under the FAA’s renewed ...
 

Entry Point North Introduces ICAO ATC Training Courses (ATC Global Insight Edition 91)

As a supplement to ab-initio training based on Eurocontrol Common Core Content, Entry Point North has introduced ICAO training courses. The ...
 

Frequentis to supply N-VCS equipment to FABEC (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

The French air navigation service provider DSNA and Eurocontrol’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) have awarded Frequentis the development, deployment and maintenance ...
 

Metron wins NASA contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

NASA has selected Metron Aviation to perform advanced research and development to further NextGen airspace management concepts. Metron Aviation will support NASA's NextGen Concepts and ...
 

Further French success for Ricochet (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

Ricochet AS has signed a contract with the French company GTIE Air and Défense to supply a recorder for the French Civil Aviation (SNA-Nord) for ...
 

ATG lights up Sydney (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

Sydney Airport has selected atg airports to upgrade the airfield lighting control system. Equipment delivery includes the control and monitoring of new stop bars at ...
 

Carmanah to illuminate remote community’s runway (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

Carmanah Technologies reports a contract to supply solar LED lighting systems to Tsay Keh Dene First Nation Airport in British Columbia. The solar-powered airfield project ...
 

Cobham wins MoD flight inspection services contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Cobham a contract worth over GBP10 million over four years, with two further one-year options, to provide ...
 

Systems Interface lands in Sri Lanka (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

Systems Interface is to supply and install a Normarc 7000 ILS and Moog Fernau 2020 DME at Bandaranaike International Airport, under a contract awarded by ...
 

Astronics wins US Air Force lighting contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

Astronics DME Corporation reports a contract award from the US Air Force worth up to USD7.4 million to supply LED airfield lighting. The five-year contract ...
 

European booth at ICAO symposium (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

The SESAR Joint Undertaking, together with the European Commission, Eurocontrol and EASA, have announced they will be present at this year’s ICAO Global Air Navigation ...
 

Airtel ATN acquires Aviation Data Systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

Airtel ATN has acquired Aviation Data Systems (ADS) of Australia. ADS provides both independent platform and PC based hardware and software systems that allow developers ...
 

Jeppesen expands Russian services (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

Jeppesen has added Ramenskoye (UUBW) airport data to its NavData flight information database as a result of an agreement with the Russian Ministry of Transportation. ...
 

Rockshore to implement Airport-CDM at Leonardo da Vinci Airport (ATC Global Insight Edition 90)

ADR Group, the manager of Rome airports, has selected Rockshore to implement Airport-CDM, aimed at improving the overall efficiency of operations at Rome Fiumicino Leonardo ...
 

Ricochet to record in Slovenia (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

Sloveniacontrol has selected Ricochet to record and replay 19 screens of 2k x 2k resolution and 256 audio sources at the new ATCC in Ljubljana, ...
 

Colombia selects Rohde & Schwarz radio equipment (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

AeroCivil of Colombia has selected Rohde & Schwarz to supply a total of 152 R&S Series4200 ground-air communications radios, which means that Rohde & Schwarz ...
 

CSC completes flow management upgrades (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

CSC reports completion of a series of upgrades to the FAA’s Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) in the first half of 2011. The upgrades include ...
 

MDA to help monitor lightning on a global scale (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates MDA reports a USD4 million contract to provide Lockheed Martin with an advanced technology solution for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) ...
 

Denver expands noise monitoring service (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

Denver International Airport has expanded its online system for tracking the movement of flights and air traffic patterns within the greater Denver region. The WebTrak ...
 

Airservices awards inspection contract to AeroPearl (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

Airservices Australia has signed a AUD100 million plus, 10-year contract with AeroPearl Pty Ltd for the delivery of Flight Inspection Service (FIS). The new FIS ...
 

Saab completes Sensis acquisition (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

Saab AB completed the acquisition of Sensis Corporation at the end of June 2011. The former Sensis Corporation has been renamed to Saab Sensis Corporation. ...
 

Entry Point North introduces ATSEP training courses (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

Entry Point North is launching a portfolio of Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel (ATSEP) training programs including initial training for Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel ...
 

ARINC to provide Eurocontrol with VDL mode 2 avionics validation test system (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

ARINC Incorporated has been awarded the contract to provide Eurocontrol with a test system to validate the functioning of VDL Mode 2 (VDL2) avionics in ...
 

Boeing to help increase Russian airport capacity (ATC Global Insight Edition 89)

Boeing announced at the Moscow Air Show that it has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate toward increasing the efficiency and capacity of leading ...
 

Airbus to Acquire Metron Aviation (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

Airbus has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Metron Aviation. Metron Aviation will operate as a US subsidiary of Airbus Americas Inc. The acquisition, ...
 

Harris wins Alaska communications upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

The FAA has awarded Harris a 10-year (five year base with five-year option) USD85 million contract to replace and upgrade the existing satellite communications network ...
 

Over 10,000 aircraft using SITA communications (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

SITA reports it is now processing two million messages per day for more than 10,000 user aircraft, airline operations centres, air traffic control, and aircraft ...
 

NATS opts for cloud-based services (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

NATS has selected Amor Group to lead a multi-million pound programme to transfer all its desktop IT services to a cloud-based infrastructure. By creating a ...
 

Frequentis returns to Curacao (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

The Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) has contracted Frequentis to replace the existing voice communications system (VCS) supplied by Frequentis at
 

Manchester installs Veristore recording solutions (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

Precision Applications Veristore recording solutions have been selected by three airports within the Manchester Airports Group. The Veristore Recording Systems comply with the latest requirements ...
 

EVA Airways selects ARINC’s GLOBALink satcom services (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

Taiwan-based international carrier EVA Airways has contracted for ARINC’s GLOBALink satellite communications services to enhance its passenger and flight deck ...
 

Korea upgrades Gimhae tower and approach (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

Intelcan reports completion of factory acceptance testing for its Skycontrol ATM and Skysurv MSSR systems due to be installed, along with a training simulator, at ...
 

Eurocontrol deploys AIS upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

Managed-AIS reports its latest update the EAD system has been tested by Eurocontrol and has now been deployed for use by aeronautical publications specialists in ...
 

Austria selects Comsoft ADS-B ground station (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

The Austrian Armed Forces (Österreichisches Bundesheer, ÖBH) has selected the Quadrant ADS-B ground station supplied by Comsoft. ÖBH intends to initially use an ADS-B ground ...
 

Thales Increases Air Traffic Capacity for Cyprus Larnaca Airport (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

Thales has completed the modernisation of the terminal area radar system, including a STAR 2000 primary surveillance radar and a co-mounted RSM 970 S Monopulse ...
 

AENA launches A-CDM programme (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

AENA has launched an Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) project at Madrid-Barajas Airport with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the main ...
 

Egis teams with Vienna Airport (ATC Global Insight Edition 88)

Egis Avia and Airport Consulting Vienna GmbH are entering into partnership through a cooperation agreement. They companies are developing new synergies to strengthen the management ...
 

NG Park Air Systems expands deliveries to India (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems is providing a range of navigation equipment including Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) and Doppler VHF Omni-directional Range Systems (DVOR) for ...
 

Egis to provide safety support for FAB Europe Central (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Egis Avia has been contracted by Belgocontrol on behalf of its FABEC partners to provide safety expertise for Functional Airspace Block Europe Central (FABEC), which ...
 

Aerothai selects NTT DATA flight procedure design (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

NTT DATA Group has received a purchase order for its PANADES flight procedure design system from Aerothai of Thailand. Aerothai designs flight procedures for several ...
 

LFV to redesign airspace in Estonia (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

LFV Aviation Consulting AB, the consultancy subsidiary of the Swedish the LFV Group, has been selected by Estonian Air Navigation Services to redesign the Tallinn ...
 

New Zealand selects Comsoft AMHS (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Airways Corporation of New Zealand (ACNZ) has selected Comsoft’s AFTN/AMHS system AIDA-NG. New Zealand’s future aeronautical messaging solution will comprise AFTN, Extended AMHS, ATN Directory ...
 

Lithuania selects multilateration solution from Indra (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Oro Navigacija of Lithuania has selected Indra to implement a multilateration system to identify aircraft at Vilnius airport. The sensors will complement the surface movement ...
 

UK airports upgrade BEST simulators (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Micro Nav has completed upgrades to the BEST radar simulator at Liverpool Airport and installed a new radar simulator at Durham Tees Valley Airport. Liverpool ...
 

Washington airports selects ITT ‘s flight data service (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

ITT Corporation is to supply the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) its flight operations data feed for noise monitoring and flight tracking systems in the ...
 

Sensis tool addresses gate management at New York’s congested airports (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Sensis Corporation is developing a managed gate operations decision support tool through a contract co-funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ...
 

MDA receives FAA follow-on contracts (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

The FAA has awarded MDA follow-on contracts worth USD7.9 million from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to continue the upgrade to the FAA’s Instrument Procedure ...
 

New terminal area radar commissioned at Adelaide (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Airservices has commissioned a new terminal area radar at Adelaide Airport to enhance surveillance of aircraft in the airspace around the airport. The new AUD8 ...
 

New centre at Lima starts operations (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Indra reports start up of the new control centre at Lima’s José Chavez International Airport, Peru, where the company is working on the deployment of ...
 

DSNA and Egis partner to provide CDM solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

DSNA and Egis Avia have signed a partnership agreement to provide support to aviation stakeholders (airport operators, air traffic control, airlines, and ground handlers) in ...
 

Southend Airport begins phase two development (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Systems Interface has secured a contract to supply the navaids, meteorological equipment and airfield ground lighting at Southend Airport, near London. Equipment includes two ILS, ...
 

EIZO launches ATC display (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

EIZO has introduced the DuraVision FDH3601, a 4K x 2K primary control monitor with a 36.4-inch screen for air traffic control. The DuraVision FDH3601 uses ...
 

Jeppesen launches digital enroute electronic flight bag application (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Jeppesen claims it has the only electronic flight bag (EFB) digital enroute charting application that replaces paper charts in the cockpit for the commercial aviation ...
 

Frequentis achieves ISO27001 certification (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Frequentis has expanded certification of its integrated management system to include the formal ISO27001 information security standard. The certification was awarded as part of a ...
 

ITT announces name change (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

ITT Corporation announced the future names for its water technology and services business and its Defense & Information Solutions segment, which become standalone companies following ...
 

SELEX achieves CMMI Level 3 (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

SELEX Sistemi Integrati has passed CMMI level 3 rating certification also for its military and civil systems. CMMI is an international standard which certifies the ...
 

Manchester Airport Group selects Precision Applications recording solutions. (ATC Global Insight Edition 87)

Precision Applications’ Veristorerecording solutions have been selected by three airports within the Manchester Airports Group (MAG). MAG is the UK’s largest British-owned airport operator and ...
 

Durham Tees Valley Airport selects Veristore Recording System. (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Durham Tees Valley Airport has awarded the contract to supply and install their replacement ATC Recording System to Precision Applications. The proposed Veristore System guarantees ...
 

Australia replaces en route radars (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Airservices has awarded Indra Australia a AUD45 million contract to replace ageing en route radars across Australia. Indra will replace 11 en route radars that ...
 

FAA renews NISC contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

The FAA has extended the contract for continued systems integration support work carried out by the Lockheed Martin and ICF International. The team is assisting ...
 

Saab to acquire Sensis Corporation (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Saab AB has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sensis Corporation for approximately USD155 million. In addition, the parties have agreed on a potential earn ...
 

Harris wins Alaska Flight Services Systems contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

The FAA awarded Harris Corporation a 42-month, USD56.7 million follow-on contract to upgrade and manage the system that currently provides real-time weather data and flight-planning ...
 

Development contract for European flight data processing system (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

DSNA and Thales signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the Paris Airshow to deploy the 4-FLIGHT flight processing system in two area control centres before ...
 

Taiwan completes Taipei FIR upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Thales reports Air Navigation and Weather Services of Taiwan (ANWS) deployed the new ATMAS ATS system covering the Taipei FIR on June 30, 2011. The ...
 

Dominican Republic selects Ricochet recording equipment (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Ricochet has been awarded a contract through partner MAGYCORP SRL for installation of recording system at Punta Cana International Airport. Ricochet is supplying a dual ...
 

Southend Airport tower goes live (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Systems Interface reports opening of the new ATC control tower at Southend Airport in the UK. Systems Interface equipped the new facility as part of ...
 

Bruel & Kjaer adds flight monitoring services… (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Brüel & Kjær reports additional features for its FlightOps flight track monitoring service including the capability to display weather radar image overlays and display real ...
 

…and upgrades Austin-Bergstrom noise management system (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has chosen Brüel & Kjær EMS to upgrade the ANOMS Noise and Operations Management System. Brüel & Kjær is supplying its latest ...
 

ENAV to train Ukrainian ATCOs (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

ENAV Forlì Academy Training Centre has started training controllers from Ukrainian State Air Traffic Service Enterprise (UkSATSE) in readiness for increased traffic anticipated when the ...
 

Quovadis selected to design PBN network across 11 Philippine Airports (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has selected Airbus subsidiary Quovadis with DSNA of France to help design a Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) network covering ...
 

Malawi’s AIM system achieves factory acceptance (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Comsoft and Tanzanian IT specialist Techno Brain successfully passed factory acceptance tests for a nation-wide IT infrastructure project from the Malawi Department of Civil Aviation ...
 

Frequentis strengthens international presence (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

Frequentis AG has established a subsidiary company, Frequentis do Brasil, in Brazil in May 2011. The company’s first Brazilian success was in 2007, when Frequentis ...
 

FAA Celebrates 75th anniversary of ATC (ATC Global Insight Edition 86)

The FAA celebrates its 75th anniversary of federal air traffic control in the US in July 2011. Federal air traffic control began on July 6, ...
 

Durham Tees Valley Airport selects Veristore Recording System (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Durham Tees Valley Airport has awarded the contract to supply and install their replacement ATC Recording System to Precision Applications. The proposed Veristore System ...
 

NG Park Air solution for Oman (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems is supplying its Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) for Muscat International and Salalah International airports in the ...
 

SELEX upgrades Maltese ATM infrastructure... (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Malta Air Traffic Services (MATS) has selected SELEX SI to upgrade the ATM system including latest software tools demonstrated in the Eurocontrol First ATC Support ...
 

...and supplies ash detection radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) has selected Selex Systems Integration GmbH to supply a mobile dual-polarized METEOR 50DX weather radar to monitor volcanic ash plumes. ...
 

Avinor selects Sensis for helicopter ADS-B operations (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Avinor AS, the ANSP for Norway, has selected Sensis Corporation to deploy an Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) system for the surveillance of helicopter ...
 

Frankfurt expands A-SMGCS system (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Fraport AG has selected Sensis Corporation to expand and upgrade its multilateration surface system to accommodate capacity expansion and growth of operational areas at Frankfurt ...
 

Romania selects Raytheon radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

ROMATSA of Romania has selected Raytheon Company to supply dual-channel, Condor Series 300 Mode S MSSR for the en route radar sites at Romania's Henri ...
 

Brazil selects Indra radar systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

CISCEA of Brazil has awarded Indra a contract worth USD4 million to supply two portable radar systems (MSSR Mode S) to back up civil air ...
 

Asia demonstrates AMHS links (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Ubitech reports successfully AMHS interoperability testing and communication linkage between its Ubimex AMHS system, operated by Aerothai in Bangkok, and the AMHS system located in ...
 

Danube FAB appoints Helios (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

UK consultancy Helios has been appointed to support the project management office of Danube FAB. The governments of Bulgaria and Romania, together with their respective ...
 

Airways New Zealand calls on GE Aviation to redesign Queenstown Airspace (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Airways New Zealand has selected GE Aviation’s PBN Services to redesign of the Queenstown airspace in order to accommodate expected traffic growth of 40 per ...
 

GE Aviation to deploy RNP paths at Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

GE Aviation has been selected to deploy a Required Navigation Performance (RNP) program at Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport, in the Sichuan province of China. The cornerstone ...
 

Scottish airports upgrade communications (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) is installing a VCCS system for Inverness, Sumburgh and Kirkwall Airports. HIAL selected NATS to implement VCCS equipment, interface ...
 

Tunisia selects Thales’ navaids (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

The Tunisian Civil Aviation and Airports Authority (OACA) have selected Thales’ technology for its air navigation systems. The Thales VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range (VOR) and ...
 

Thales ATM System Goes Live in Abu Dhabi (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Thales reports completion of the new ATM system at Abu Dhabi International Airport. The Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) selected Thales in 2008 to supply ...
 

Telvent expands international reach (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Telvent has expanded its US aviation weather support system worldwide. The expansion allows pilots, dispatchers and air traffic control managers across the globe to analyse ...
 

Terma offers wind farm mitigation (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Terma reports its SCANTER 4002 radar system can provide inter-turbine visibility and enabling detection and tracking of small air targets inside and around wind farms. ...
 

Carmanah and ADB expand solar lighting (ATC Global Insight Edition 85)

Carmanah Technologies in partnership with ADB Airfield Solutions announce the completion of the wireless solar engine power supply (SEPS) for ADB airfield lights and visual ...
 

Sydney upgrades radar… (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Airservices has commissioned an upgraded AUD6 million terminal area radar at Australia's busiest airport. Located airside at Sydney Airport, the upgrade is part of Airservices ...
 

…as remote control tower is trialed at Alice Springs… (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Saab and Airservices Australia have signed a contract to commence a trial of remotely-operated air traffic control tower technology in Australia later this year. Remote ...
 

… andTasmania enhances aircraft surveillance (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

From 3 June 2011 passenger aircraft flying into and out of Tasmania's two main airports - Hobart and Launceston - will be under the control ...
 

China continues PBN expansion (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Ali Airport in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China is the latest to introduce Required Navigation Performance (RNP) Authorisation Required (AR) procedures to support advanced ...
 

Albania inaugurates new air traffic control building (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

The National Air Traffic Agency (NATA) of Albania inaugurated a new air traffic control facility in early May 2011. The National Airspace Modernization Project has ...
 

Norway to use GPS to monitor offshore traffic (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Avinor has selected Sensis to deploy ADS-B ground stations to strengthen monitoring of airspace extending to the Ekofisk, Sleipner and Heimdal oil fields. A total ...
 

Terma adds to French SMR deliveries (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Terma secured a contracted to supply its SCANTER 2001i SMR to Nice International Airport in May 2011. The SCANTER Radar will form part of the ...
 

Albania selected AviBit tower system (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

ANTA, the Albanian National Air Traffic Agency selected AviBit and local partner TCN to supply an Integrated Tower Information System for the new control tower ...
 

SMATSA Launches New ATM System (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services Agency (SMATSA) launched its new ATM system into operational work, only two years after the commencement of the modernisation ...
 

Vietnam accepts Comsoft AIS/AIM solution. (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

The Vietnam Air Traffic Management (VATM) corporation concluded the final acceptance of Comsoft’s fully automated AIS/AIM solution in early June 2011. The system provides aeronautical ...
 

Managed-AIS completed Taiwan installation (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

The apsXML eAIP software supplied by Managed-AIS was accepted in Taiwan as part of an Air Traffic Management (ATM) system installed by Thales Australia in ...
 

FABEC states procure common voice switch (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

French service provider DSNA has joined with Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) to award a new voice communications system (VCS) contract to Frequentis. The ...
 

Fujairah selects surveillance system from ALES and ERA (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Fujairah International Airport has selected ALES to supply its LETVIS automation including voice and data recording systems and ATC simulator. The airport is also installing ...
 

Cassidian minimises wind farm turbine interference (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, reports development of enhanced technology to reduce interference to air traffic control radars caused by wind turbines. ...
 

ADB opens airfield lighting factory in China (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

ADB Airport Systems opened a new manufacturing plant in Tianjin in May, consolidating its presence in China and the Asia Pacific Region. The new plant ...
 

PASSUR introduces Integrated Traffic Management (PITM) (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

PASSUR has unveiled its Integrated Traffic Management (PITM) tool for airlines and airports. The US company has spend two years developing the web-based platform. PITM ...
 

Brüel & Kjær EMS introduces enhancements to FlightOps in the US (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Brüel & Kjær EMS has enhanced its FlightOps flight track monitoring service that provides airports with timely access to information about where and when aircraft ...
 

Brüel & Kjær EMS introduces enhancements to FlightOps in the US (ATC Global Insight Edition 84)

Brüel & Kjær EMS has enhanced its FlightOps flight track monitoring service that provides airports with timely access to information about where and when aircraft ...
 

Austria selects Sensis WAM (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Austro Control has selected Sensis Corporation to deploy a Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system across the country. Sensis WAM will provide highly accurate surveillance of ...
 

Nigeria checks prevailing wind (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

The Nigerian Air Force has selected P Wedge wind socks, and airfield lighting from Avlite. Aviation Renewables has won the contract to deliver multiple systems ...
 

Mauritius upgrades navaids (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Aviation Renewables and its global partner Systems Interface teamed up to provide a Solar Series NDB for the Department of Civil Aviation in Mauritius. ...
 

Thales wins Olympic radar contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

London Oxford Airport has awarded Thales a contract to supply and install a primary and secondary Mode S MSSR radar system, a precursor to the ...
 

MDA extends FAA work (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

The FAA has awarded MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) a contract worth CAD4 million to upgrade the existing Instrument Procedure Development System (IPDS) to be ...
 

Saudi Arabia upgrades flight plan converter (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) is upgrading its CADAS flight plan terminal system supplied by Comsoft to the new FPL2012 compatible format ...
 

Angola selects Ricochet recording equipment (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Ricochet is supplying its record and replay systems to three airports in Angola in partnership with Cartil Communications & Electronics Corporation. Ricochet will supply dual ...
 

Estonia specifies new data recorders (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Estonian Air Navigation Services (ENS) began a major modernization programme in March 2010 with an award to Thales to upgrade the existing Eurocat system. Selection ...
 

Vaisala claims earlier ash cloud detection (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Vaisala's Global Lightning Dataset GLD360 now includes new technology that can provide early warnings of explosive ash clouds that cause disruptions to aviation routes and ...
 

Copenhagen operates new surface movement radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

The new Terma Scanter 5000 solid state radar supplied by Terma, combined with HITT’s A3000 Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) began operational ...
 

Carmanah and ADB partners introduce first solar-powered Helipad Kit (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Carmanah Technologies in partnership with ADB Airfield Solutions have announced the release of the solar-powered Helipad Kit. The Helipad Kit features ADB wireless solar engine ...
 

New civil/military radar displayed (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, displayed its new ASR-E ATC radar together with a civil and military dual use secondary radar MSSR ...
 

Stratech’s iFerret patent approved (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Stratech Systems reports its iFerret intelligent airfield/runway surveillance and foreign object detection (FOD) system has been approved by the intellectual property office of Singapore. Stratech ...
 

Thales opens ATM research centre in Melbourne (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Air Traffic Management or CASIA was officially opened at Thales Australia’s Air Operation facility in Melbourne by the Victorian ...
 

Avtech sets up Dubai subsidiary (ATC Global Insight Edition 83)

Swedish airspace design specialist Avtech has established a new subsidiary in Dubai called Avtech Middle East LLC. Avtech ME has been established in UAE by ...
 

FAA selects SELEX DME solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

SELEX SI Inc has been awarded a contract from the FAA to supply Model 1118A/1119A Distance Measuring Equipment (DME). Under the contract, SELEX will work ...
 

Honeywell wins USD38m FAA contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

Honeywell has won a 5-year, USD38 million contract with the FAA to maintain security systems at more than 1,000 locations in the agency's Air Traffic ...
 

Brazil selects MDA to support surveillance upgrade (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) reports a multi-million dollar contract to upgrade Amazon Surveillance System, or SIVAM (Sistema de Vigilancia da Amazonia). SIVAM is surveillance ...
 

Asia-Pacific states complete Comsoft AMHS/ATN link.... (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

Comsoft reports aeronautical communication link via AMHS/ATN between India and Singapore. Commissioning of an AMHS system at Mumbai Airport by Airport Authority of India (AAI) ...
 

....and gains certification for its ARTAS IT maintenance and operational support (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

Comsoft has been certified in accordance with ISO/IEC 20000-1 for its IT Support Services for ARTAS. This confirms Comsoft’s IT service management system based on ...
 

...and completes fourth AMHS user group meeting (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

ANSPs from all over the world attended Comsoft’s two-day seminar in early May addressing the development of worldwide AMHS connections, new features of Comsoft’s products ...
 

Estonia adopts latest AIP technology (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

Estonian Air Navigation Service (EANS) commissioned its central Aeronautical Information Management database, fully compliant to the latest Eurocontrol AIXM 5 standard, in April 2011. The ...
 

Portugal approves Adacel’s ICE for language tests (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

The Portuguese Aviation Authority, Instituto Nacional de Aviação Civil, (INAC, IP), has accredited Adacel’s Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE) product to be used throughout Portugal as ...
 

Fusion team to bid MARSHALL project (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

Lockheed Martin, Finmeccanica – through its UK company SELEX SI - and Cobham have signed an agreement to form Fusion Air Traffic Management, which will ...
 

Certification for Honeywell’s SmartTraffic TCAS (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

Honeywell' advanced traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) with SmartTraffic has been certified. TCAS with SmartTraffic improves traffic situational awareness and increases flight ...
 

GE study highlights efficiency savings (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

A study by GE Aviation claims airlines could save at least USD65.6 million annually while slashing carbon emissions and cutting flight times by ...
 

Hungary opens new research centre (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

HungaroControl opened a new central European research simulation centre in Budapest in May 2011. The centre enables the testing of newly developed theoretically ...
 

Austro Control selects Sensis wide area multilateration (ATC Global Insight Edition 82)

Austro Control GmbH has selected Sensis Corporation to deploy a Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system across the country. Sensis WAM will provide highly ...
 

Indra wins Jordan contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

The Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (CARC) of Jordan has awarded Indra a contract worth Eur4 million to supply surveillance and ATM equipment. Indra is supplying ...
 

Georgia inaugurates Thales radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

Thales reports inauguration of its Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar (MSSR) system installed at the Poti Airport in Georgia including full Mode S compliance. During the ...
 

FAA awards MDA follow-on contracts (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

The FAA has awarded MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) contracts worth USD6 million to continue the upgrade to the FAA’s Instrument Procedure Development System (IPDS), ...
 

FAA selects SAIC (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

The FAA Enterprise Services Center (ESC) has selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to provide comprehensive information technology (IT) services to the FAA, DoT and ...
 

US Army approves Adacel simulation system (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

The US Army at Fort Rucker has accredited the ATC simulators supplied by Adacel. The Air traffic, Tower, ATNavics and fixed base PAR Simulator covers ...
 

Comsoft supplies RAPS-3 to New Zealand… (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

Airways New Zealand has selected Comsoft’s ASTERIX test and reference tool RAPS-3. RAPS supports testing, analysis, validation, generation and simulation of surveillance data in connection ...
 

...and upgrades aeronautical messaging in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

The Federate Directorate of Civil Aviation (FEDCAD) of Bosnia and Herzegovina has upgraded its existing AFTN infrastructure with Comsoft’s AFTN/AMHS switching solution. The company’s AIDA-NG, ...
 

...and contributes to AIXM 5 interoperability tests (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

Comsoft has been selected to contribute to the next phase development of aeronautical information management (AIM). Comsoft is providing its CADAS-AIM system which supports AIXM ...
 

Latvia publishes first VFR eAIP (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

LGS of Latvia has published an electronic VFR AIP (VFR eAIP) using the apsXML eAIP production software supplied by Managed-AIS. The new publication provides ...
 

Hong Kong upgrades communications (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

The Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department had selected Schmid Telecom AG as the supplier of the new communication system, and Ricochet AS as the supplier ...
 

Australia replaces Cairns radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

Airservices Australia is installing a temporary radar at Machans Beach while the permanent Cairns terminal area radar is upgraded. The AUD5.5 million upgrade is part ...
 

Rohde & Schwarz introduces all-in-one ILS test solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced an all-in-one solution for verifying instrument landing systems (ILS) in cooperation with skyguide of Switzerland. The new R&S TS6300 is ...
 

Carmanah forms solar lighting consortium (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

Carmanah Technologies has teamed with other North American manufacturers to form the Consortium for Solar Lighting (CSL) to develop universal specifications for solar powered lighting ...
 

New partnership to deliver Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) (ATC Global Insight Edition 81)

Snowflake Software of the US and CGH Technologies in the US have announced a strategic alliance in the area of Aeronautical Information Management (AIM). The ...
 

Combitech provides automated weather observation system to Albania (ATC Global Insight Edition 80)

In cooperation with TCN, a system integrator and infrastructure company in Albania, Combitech within the Saab Group has been awarded a contract to deliver a ...
 

Raytheon expands STARS deliveries (ATC Global Insight Edition 80)

The FAA is extended the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) programme in a USD177 million contract modification awarded to Raytheon. STARS is a joint ...
 

Lockheed Martin and Atmos link for Brazilian radar programme (ATC Global Insight Edition 80)

Lockheed Martin and Atmos Sistemas Ltda. have signed a teaming agreement to pursue the Brazilian Air Force's future Three-Dimensional (3-D) Long-Range Radar procurement program, which ...
 

New NextGen GA cockpit planned to be available by year end (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Honeywell and Aspen Avionics are working on a NextGen-ready multi-function touchscreen cockpit display to general aviation customers. The two companies have completed a development ...
 

Mauritius upgrades navaids (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Systems Interface reports completion of an NDB installation at Flic-en-Flac airport for the Mauritius Department of Aviation. Equipment includes a Nautel VR250 Vector Dual solid ...
 

Frankfurt becomes fourth European airport to implement A-CDM (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Frankfurt became fully compliant with Eurocontrol’s Airport-Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) measures in late February 2011. As a result, Frankfurt now provides the Eurocontrol central flow ...
 

Austria selects Cassidian MSSR (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Austro Control has awarded Cassidian, the renamed defence and security division of EADS, a contract to supply its MSSR 2000 I to Vienna International Airport. ...
 

Comsoft studies the application of ATN directory services (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Eurocontrol has selected Comsoft to carry out an operational study into how ATN Directory Services can support the Air Traffic Services Message Handling System (AMHS) ...
 

AviBit A-SMGCS selected for Berlin Bradenburg (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Germany’s navigation service provider DFS has selected AviBit’s A-SMGCS solution at a third German airport with a contract to equip Berlin Bradenburg International Airport which ...
 

SITA wins data link infrastructure award from FABEC….. (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

SITA has been selected to provide the air/ground communication infrastructure (ATN and VDL Mode 2) to the states that together make up FABEC. The navigation ...
 

…and completes US VHF coverage (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

SITA announced coast-to-coast VHF digital data link Mode 2 service (VDL Mode 2) across the US in mid-March 2011. Data link communications are one of ...
 

Africa collates aeronautical information (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

The Agency for the Security of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) has selected Thales and CGx Aero to deploy a centralised Aeronautical Information ...
 

Electronic flight strips for Jersey (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems reports the delivery of radar data processing displays and Electronic Flight Strip (EFS) capabilities for the new air traffic control ...
 

Madrid completes surface surveillance system (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Era reports its surveillance solution at Madrid Barajas went into full operation at the end of March 2011. Era worked with partner EMTE ...
 

New control tower for Rockhampton, Australia (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

Airservices expects to complete the AUD6 million new control tower at Rockhampton Airport in July 2011. The new tower will be 23 metres tall, and ...
 

Providence invests in SRA (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

SRA International has entered into a merger agreement under which SRA will be acquired by an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners in an all-cash transaction. ...
 

UK promotes Just Culture (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

The UK CAA has published updated guidance to accompany its Mandatory Occurrence Reporting Scheme (MOR) including, for the first time, a formal definition of Just ...
 

SESAR announces awards (ATC Global Insight Edition 79)

The SESAR Joint Undertaking announced awards for three projects in March 2011. From 26 nominated projects, three won awards. These included the ENAV project ‘Tactical ...
 

FABEC states selects common VCS (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

In February 2011, DSNA of France and Eurocontrol Maastricht centre awarded Frequentis a contract to supply the N-VCS to equip MUAC and area control centres ...
 

Vienna selects Cassidian secondary radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

Austro Control has selected Cassidian, the renamed defence and security division of EADS, to equip Vienna International Airport with its MSSR 2000 I airspace surveillance ...
 

India expands data link network (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

The Airports Authority of India has awarded SITA a contract to deliver enhanced systems that will enable the exchange of air traffic control (ATC) messages ...
 

Brazil installs GBAS precision approach system at Rio (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

Honeywell has installed its smartPath Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS) at Rio’s Galeao-Aontonio Carlos Jobim International Airport. The company estimates it will save the airport ...
 

Copperchase upgrades information systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

Swaziland’s Sikhuphe International Airport has completed site acceptance of the Meteorological System (METSYS) and AFTN Communications System (AFGATE) supplied by Copperchase. The ATC equipment used ...
 

Mexican approval for Carmanah obstruction lights (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

The Mexican CAA has approved the use of Carmanah A704-5 and A650 solar LED signal lights for obstruction marking in accordance with Annex 14 of ...
 

Rohde & Schwarz showcases one-source IP communications (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

Rohde&Schwarz exhibited its one-source IP communications solution at ATC Global 2011 that includes the R&S Series4200 VoIP enabled transmitters and receivers as well as the ...
 

Mauritius asks Systems Interface to commission Nautel NDB (ATC Global Insight Edition 78)

The Department of Civil Aviation in Mauritius has awarded Systems Interface a contract to provide a ground based navigational aid on Agalega North Island’s airfield. ...
 

Sensis adds “chat” functionality to Aerobahn’s CDM functionality (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Sensis Corporation has announced the availability of an integrated chat function in its Aerobahn® airport surface management system. Aerobahn’s chat function supports private one-to-one communications ...
 

Northrop Grumman Park Air to deliver satellite landing systems to Norway (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems has been awarded follow-on contracts by Norwegian air navigation service provider Avinor for the supply of satellite landing systems at ...
 

Terma deploying SMRs to Germany, Sweden and UK (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Terma is now deploying SCANTER 2001i Surface Movement Radars (SMRs) at Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, Germany (as part of AviBit's Advanced-Surface Movement Guidance and Control ...
 

Comsoft supplies AIM system to Malawi and Estonia (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Comsoft has been selected as supplier of a new AIM system for the Malawi Department of Civil Aviation (MDCA). The system will include aeronautical databases ...
 

Thales completes Australian ATM research centre (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Thales Australia has completed construction of the Centre for Advanced Studies in ATM (CASIA), a new Air Traffic Management research and development centre in Melbourne, ...
 

UFA expands German training facilities (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

DFS of Germany has selected UFA’s ATVoice product to add voice recognition and response capabilities to its ATCoach based NewSim Radar Simulator at Munich ...
 

Helsinki tracks vehicles with Era (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Finavia has selected Era to supply 135 of its latest-generation Squid vehicle tracking units at the Helsinki Airport in Finland. The Squid units will support ...
 

Ricochet wins Oman contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Ricochet has entered a contract with Indra Sistemas for installation of recording systems in Oman. Ricochet’s recording technology will be installed in Oman’s main international ...
 

Denmark switches to Schmid Telecom (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Naviair has awarded Schmid Telecom a contract for the supply of five Voice Communication Systems (VCS) for different local regional ATC centers and regional airports ...
 

Greece adds further Northrop Grumman A-SMGCS (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, is providing its A-SMGCS to Greece's Thessaloniki International Airport. Under the contract awarded by Greek consultants ATESE Park Air will ...
 

Hungary selects Comsoft gateway (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

HungaroControl has selected Comsoft to supply an OLDI FMTP/FDE Enhanced Gateway (COFFEE) thus enabling connectivity between aeronautical ATM centres in Hungary and other European countries. ...
 

Ukraine selects Indra ATC systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Ukraine air traffic services supplier UkSATSE has selected Indra to upgrade ATM infrastructure at Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Simferopol infrastructures, ahead of the 2012 Euro Cup, ...
 

Frequentis smartMessenger AMHS system in Denmark and Albania (ATC Global Insight Edition 76)

Frequentis has implemented a smartMessenger system configured to support the AMHS, AFTN and CIDIN message formats and the management of OPMET data at Naviair facilities ...
 

Nav Canada rewards Northrop Grumman (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Nav Canada has awarded Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems two key supplier performance awards. These were awarded to the company’s UK and Norway subsidiaries in ...
 

Vaisala improves lightning detection (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Vaisala has added its latest patented Total Lightning Processor location algorithm to the North American Lightning Detection Network (NALDN). The NALDN will now be able ...
 

Eurocontrol updates eAIP Toolbox (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Eurocontrol has awarded Comsoft a contract to update the eAIP production toolbox in line with the latest eAIP specification, including updating the eAIP editor's and ...
 

Successful design review for US weather satellite (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

The Lockheed Martin team designing NASA and NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-series (GOES-R) weather satellite reports completion of the system Preliminary Design Review. GOES-R ...
 

Real Time Consulting joins TASC SE-2020 team (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Real Time Consulting, has joined the TASC Inc team that has been awarded a 10-year contract worth up to USD827.8 million under the FAA SE-2020 ...
 

Abu Dhabi completes electronic AIP installation (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of the United Arab Emirates became the first Middle East ANSP to publish AIP in electronic format in February ...
 

Schmid returns to China (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Schmid Telecom has secured a contact to supply its ICS Sky voice communication system to Kunming Airport, bringing to 21 the number of VCS ordered ...
 

Precision Applications replaces Manchester recording equipment (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Precision Applications is replacing the recording systems, used for both communication and surveillance data, at Manchester Airport. The new Veristor system complies in full with ...
 

WIDE displays for Russia (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

WIDE Corporation together with its Russian partners INT Ltd. and OAO VNIIRA are supplying the 2K by 2K monitors for new ATC centres under construction ...
 

NASA selects Sensis to design NextGen airspace procedures (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) Super Density Operations Airspace Design (SDOAD) project has selected Sensis Corporation ...
 

Copenhagen upgrades Brüel & Kjær noise monitoring system (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Brüel and Kjær is to update the current noise monitoring system at Copenhagen Airport. The airport is installing the company’s ANOMS system, equipped with 12 ...
 

SELEX to provide ADS-B backup (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

SELEX Systems Integration has been awarded a contract from ITT Corporation as the second source radio supplier for the FAA’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) programme. ...
 

Frequentis upgrades smartStrips (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Frequentis has launched the latest release of its smartStrips flight data solutions. The new release is based on an ATC-grade platform with unrivalled safety features, ...
 

Paris installs runway status lights system (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Paris Charles de Gaulle is installing Europe’s first runway status lights (RWSL) system. RWSL is an automated system that warns aircraft and vehicles if it ...
 

Solar lighting for Afghanistan (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Carmanah Technologies and ADB Airfield Solutions are to supply solar powered aviation lights to a forward operating base in Afghanistan in a contact worth over ...
 

Second Host Systems tower sent to Afghanistan (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

A second Host Systems mobile ATC tower (also known as MVCR - Mobile Visual Control Room) has been delivered via C-17 to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan ...
 

Raytheon secures wind turbine contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

The US Department of Homeland Security has selected Raytheon to develop an advanced wind turbine modeling tool to assess of the turbine's effects on radar ...
 

New Zealand integrates flight strips (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Airways New Zealand is now using the fully integrated Frequentis flight data management solution smartStrips supplied by Frequentis at its key international airports. Electronic flight ...
 

Belarus selects Thales radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Belaeronavigatsia of Belarus has awarded Thales and its Belarusian partner AGAT a contract to supply three radar stations for Grodno, Mogilev and Minsk-2 airports. Thales ...
 

UFA to launch ATSpeak at ATC Global (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

Training and simulation specialist UFA is launching a new communications training product at ATC Global in Amsterdam 9-11 March 2011. UFA products and services, including ...
 

Mobile landing systems on show at ATC Global 2011 (ATC Global Insight Edition 75)

ITT is exhibiting models of its Deployable TASR and GCA-2000 radars with a scale version of the air traffic control operations shelter at ATC Global ...
 

Atg airports acquires NKI signage business (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

UK airfield lighting company atg airports, has acquired the airfield signage business of NKI Group. The purchase expands the range of airfield guidance signs supplied ...
 

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems expands airport portfolio (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems has launched Airport Realtime Collaboration (ARC), a technology and services capability for the implementation of collaborative decision making solutions in ...
 

ARINC recertifies GLOBALink software (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

ARINC has renewed its Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 rating. ARINC’s GLOBALink Engineering group first attained CMMI Level 3 ...
 

Barco introduces large-screen displays (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

Barco has introduced a range of large-screen, high-resolution LED backlit LCD displays for control room applications at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in February 2011. The ...
 

SELEX signs maintenance contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

SELEX Sistemi Integrati has secured a Eur10 million contract in the Middle East to supply a centralised depot maintenance facility to the local Air Force ...
 

Comsoft monitors Eurocontrol’s data management system (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

Eurocontrol has site accepted the monitoring and control system for the latest version of the Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System (ETFMS) Data Collection and Data ...
 

UFA completes simulator installations (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

UFA announced it has completed installation and user training for UFA’s ATTower Tower simulator for the first Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) at Fort Riley's Marshall ...
 

Egypt upgrades tower communications (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

Egypt’s National Air Navigation Services Company (NANSC) is upgrading control towers at Assuyt and El Nouzha airport with prime contractor ACS International. Frequentis’ smart3020X VCS ...
 

Precision Applications wins Manchester, Manson recording contracts (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

Precision Applications has been awarded a contract to supply replacement ATC record and replay equipment at Manchester Airport (UK). The new recording system, which will ...
 

Poland selects Thales radars (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

The Polish Air Navigation Service Agency PANSA has selected Thales to supply two Primary Surveillance radars and Monopulse Secondary Surveillance radars to be installed at ...
 

Malaysia commissions Micro Nav simulator (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

The Malaysian Aviation Academy (MAvA) and Department of Civil Aviation in Kuala Lumpur officially commissioned the BEST simulator installed in conjunction with Puncak Teknologi at ...
 

Avtech expands SESAR work (ATC Global Insight Edition 74)

Airbus has selected Avtech Sweden as its associated partner to work on several SESAR programmes. As a result of the association, AVTECH has commenced work ...
 

Terma supplies SMR to Romania (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

Terma has been awarded a contract in Romania for its new SCANTER 5502 Redundant Solid State Surface Movement Radar (SMR).

Two SCANTER 5502 Redundant SMR ...

 

ITT announces company restructure (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

ITT Corporation is to create three independent publicly traded companies to address its main business areas. These include water technology, defense and information solutions. ITT ...

 

Nav Canada renames Cornwall training facility (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

The Nav Canada Training and Conference Centre has been renamed the Nav Centre. The training centre has expanded to provide comprehensive conference, meeting and accommodation ...
 

Serbia’s new centre takes shape (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic inaugurated the new control centre building at Belgrade in early January. This is a first step in the implementation of ...
 

Southwest flies RNP approaches (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

Southwest Airlines began Required Navigation Performance (RNP) procedures at 11 airports in early January 2011. RNP is a satellite-based navigation that brings together the accuracy ...
 

Brazil upgrades VHF network (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

The Brazilian Department of Airspace Control (DECEA) has awarded SITA a contract to update Brazil’s dedicated air-ground VHF Data Link (VDL) communication network infrastructure. The ...
 

Carmanah/ADB team lights up Venezuelan base (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

The Venezuelan Air Force is installing a solar and AC-powered airfield lighting system valued in excess of USD300,000 supplied by partners Carmanah and ADB Airfield ...
 

…and wins DFS communications contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

DFS selected Frequentis’ voice communications system ISIS-XM for installation at the Langen area and approach control facility. ISIS-XM voice communication systems already operate at Bremen and Karlsruhe, and DFS ...
 

...upgrades Isle of Man… (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

Eleven years after Frequentis installed its Voice Communication System (VCS) into Ronaldsway’s original air traffic control tower, the company has returned to the Isle of Man (IoM) to ...
 

…expands Austrian deliveries… (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

Austro Control is installing Frequentis’ DIVOS log 3 multimedia recording system to ATC facilities at Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Vienna. The Austrian ANSP will now use the complete ...
 

Frequentis wins Morocco tower contract… (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

Société de Fabrications Radioélectriques Marocaines (SFRM) of Morocco is refurbishing the Ouarzazate ATC tower for Office National Des Aéroports (ONDA). The company has chosen Frequentis’ smart3020X VCS to ...
 

SELEX selects Ricochet recording equipment (ATC Global Insight Edition 73)

SELEX has selected Ricochet’s record and replay technology as part of a wider programme to modernise ATM communications for Turkey. Ricochet is supplying recording systems to Ankara, Istanbul, ...
 

Iberia to extend use of Lufthansa navigation database (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Iberia has decided to extend the use of the Lido/FMS database from Lufthansa Systems for another five years. The Spanish airline recently renewed its contract for the ...
 

Lockheed Martin demonstrates new military radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Lockheed Martin has successfully completed a capability demonstration in the latest phase of the US Air Force's development of the next-generation mobile, long-range ...
 

QinetiQ’s unmanned Zephyr secures world record (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

The solar-powered unmanned aircraft Zephyr developed by QinetiQ has completed the longest flight by an aeroplane – two weeks. It also holds the highest altitude record for ...
 

Dubai showcase for Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali recently opened to commercial traffic. Among equipment suppliers, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems supplied communications, navigation and surveillance products valued ...
 

NLR and Arcadis to develop joint geo-information data (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Dutch research agency NLR and Arcadis Netherlands have signed a two-year partnership agreement to develop and host geo-information infrastructures. NLR uses geo-information in various activities such as ...
 

HITT improves surface movement guidance (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

HITT reports orders worth Eur3 million to supply A-SMGCS for airports in Vietnam, Germany and Sweden. The Vietnam Air Navigation Services Corporation has selected HITT’s solution for ...
 

Romania pioneers new surface movement radar technology (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Romatsa has selected AviBit to supply an integrated A-SMGCS at Otopeni International Airport in Bucharest. AviBit will supply its ACEMAX A-SMGCS and electronic flight strip system DIFLIS, ...
 

Aerothai launches PBN operations (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Aerothai is implementing Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) at Subarnabhumi International Airport. The service provider is introducing Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) which will benefit airlines ...
 

ARINC adds four new VHF ground stations in South Korea (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

ARINC has expanded its VHF data link network in Asia with the addition of four new remote ground stations to support its GLOBALink communications network. The ...
 

Slovakia buys Comsoft’s ADS-B system (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Slovakian air navigation service provider LPS has selected the Comsoft ADS-B solution Quadrant. Four sensors and a control and monitoring system are due to be installed across ...
 

Thales wins more UK radar work (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Manston Kent International Airport has selected Thales primary STAR 20002 and co-mounted RSM 970 S3 monopulse mode-S secondary surveillance radars, complete with Eurocat-C1 automation system to ...
 

Era Surveillance System Selected for New Berlin Airport (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

DFS has selected Era to deploy a multilateration and ADS-B surveillance solution at Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. The sensors will be integrated into the airport’s A-SMGCS and follows ...
 

Germany upgrades GNSS monitoring system (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (DFS) has commissioned Air Traffic Control & Business Systems (AC-B), an Indra subsidiary in Germany, with the modernisation of the GNSS-Ü ...

 

Indra expands Chinese business (ATC Global Insight Edition 72)

The Air Traffic Management Bureau of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has selected Indra to supply air traffic management systems in Xian ...

 

Atg Airports opens Spanish office (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

UK airfield lighting manufacturer atg airports has opened an office in Spain. Atg España is located in Madrid and provides technical and sales support services to customers ...
 

EIZO launches new high-bright monitors (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

EIZO has introduced a new line of high-bright monitors to its Raptor series for control tower applications. The first two monitors in this new line, the 19-inch Raptor ...
 

ITT signs AirScene acquisition (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

ITT completed the acquisition of Airport Operations Solutions group from SRA International in late November 2010. The group supplies the web-based airport operation management platform, AirScene.com, which includes ...
 

Lima and Colombia complete AMHS link (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Comsoft reports the start of operations of the AMHS link between the aeronautical fixed communication centre in Lima and Colombia’s Aerocivil in Bogotá. Both ANSPs operate COMSOFT AIDA-NG ...
 

FAA extends MDA IPDS contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

The FAA has awarded follow-on contracts valued at over USD5 million (USD) to MDA to continue to upgrade the Instrument Procedure Development System (IPDS). MDA was awarded ...
 

Romania selects AviBit surface guidance system (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Romania’s navigation service provider Romatsa has selected AviBit supply an integrated A-SMGCS system at Otopeni International Airport in Bucharest. Equipment includes AviBit’s ACEMAX A-SMGCS and DIFLIS electronic flight ...
 

HITT reports more business in China (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

The new Kunming Airport in south west China is the latest airport to select HITT’s Advanced-Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS). Kunming is intended to become China’s ...
 

Managed-AIS hosts new clients for eAIP training (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Managed-AIS (M-AIS) have recently hosted trainees from Jordan, Lithuania and Moldova to attend eAIP software training. The two week course gave the three ...
 

Singapore hosts ICAO training courses (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

ICAO and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish the ICAO-Singapore Aviation Security Leadership and Management Seminar (LAMS). The ...
 

Rohde & Schwarz acquires Topex (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Rohde & Schwarz has acquired a majority interest in the Romanian company Topex, a voice communications specialist. Topex complements the Rohde & Schwarz ATC portfolio which mainly comprises ...
 

Comsoft launches a new flight plan converter (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Comsoft has launched a new flight plan converter AIDA-FPL to comply with the ICAO FLP2012 mandate. According to Amendment 1 to ICAO Doc. 4444, a new flight ...
 

Brüel & Kjaer EMS lands US airports ugprades (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority has selected Brüel & Kjær EMS to replace the Noise and Flight Track Management System (NFTMS) in a five-year contract ...
 

Hong Kong manages arrivals with Barco software (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Barco's Osyris Arrival Management (AMAN) software is fully installed and operational at Hong Kong International Airport. The arrival metering and sequencing system is customized in line with the ...
 

UK airports adopts electronic flight strips (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

Glasgow is the latest UK airport to start using electronic flight strips for approach and tower control, following Aberdeen and Edinburgh airports. The electronic flight progress strips (EFPS) ...
 

Frequentis wins more contracts in Brazil (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

After delivering several air traffic control tower systems in Brazil, Frequentis has been selected to supply two air traffic control conferencing system to be installed in Sao Paolo ...
 

Oman selects Vaisala’s weather systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 70)

The Sultanate of Oman has awarded Vaisala a contract worth Eur9 million to supply weather observation systems to six airports between 2011 and 2014. The systems, which include ...
 

Adacel works with MPS to simulate ATC training exercises (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

Adacel has partnered with flight simulator manufacturer Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) to demonstrate simulated air traffic control features as part of pilot training. MPS is installing Adacel’s ATC ...
 

Belgocontrol accepts Comsoft AMHS solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

Comsoft reports full operation of its AIDA-NG message gateway at Brussels Airport. The system acts as a national and international distributor of flight ...
 

Comsoft and SELEX work together (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

SELEX and Comsoft have agreed to undertake more joint projects following the success of an advanced Multi Radar Tracking System for four major ATC centres on behalf ...
 

Russian relies on Vaisala’s lightning detection system (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

Vaisala has supplied a lightning detection system to an electricity transmission network in southern Russia to help minimize power outages caused by lightning strikes. The project is part ...
 

Switzerland completes VISTA programme (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

Frequentis reports completion of the Voice Integrated Switches for Air Traffic Control (VISTA) programme for Swiss service provider skyguide. The programme upgraded communications at area control centres in ...
 

Santa Monica Airport selects WebTrak (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

US Santa Monica Airport has selected WebTrak noise management system from Brüel & Kjær EMS (previously Lochard), the 51st airport to select the software programme. The system is ...
 

Tern upgrades Kosovo message handling (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

Tern Systems reports completed installation and site acceptance of its Automatic Message Switch System and two end user AFTN Terminals at Pristina International Airport (PIA) in Kosovo. ...
 

RNP supports precision approach during ILS outage (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

The Required Navigation Performance (RNP) flight paths at Lijiang, China, developed by GE’s Naverus subsidiary are providing precise lateral and vertical guidance to the runway, making it possible ...
 

South America expands RNP approach procedures (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

GE’s PBN Services business is developing an optimised navigation network at Lima’s Jorge Chávez International Airport, and four other airports in Peru, Chile and Ecuador following an agreement ...
 

…and completes African projects (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

Egypt’s National Air Navigation Services Company (NANSC) inaugurated the third air traffic control tower and third runway at Cairo International Airport in late October 2010. Thales was general ...
 

Thales wins Oman contract… (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

The Ministry of Transport & Communications of the Sultanate of Oman has selected Thales to supply 10 ILS/DME system and six DVOR/DME systems to Muscat and Salalah international ...
 

SELEX wins Kuwait contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

The Kuwait General Directorate of Civil Aviation has awarded SELEX a contract worth USD16 million to supply an ATCR-33/S primary radar, a SIR-S secondary radar and ADS-B ground ...
 

Brazil is first Latin American country to select Honeywell’s GBAS system (ATC Global Insight Edition 69)

CISCEA of Brazil has awarded Honeywell Aerospace a contract to supply its SmartPath Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) at Galeao Antonio Carlos Jobim International ...
 

Vaisala upgrades lightning detection network (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Vaisala has introduced a new feature to its National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) designed to provide customers with lightning information within 15 seconds, or in half the time ...
 

…and wins Finnish contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Finavia has chosen FlexScan monitors from Eizo Nanao Corporation for its Freshup project to upgrade and harmonize the hardware and software used in its ATC systems. The monitors ...
 

Eizo launches Raptor 5000… (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Eizo Nanao Technologies has introduced a new video graphics board for the ATC market. The Raptor 5000 is a PCI Express 16-lane graphics card that offers OpenGL ...
 

Reno completes new control tower (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

The FAA has completed construction of a USD29.4 million new 196 ft control tower at Reno-Tahoe International, including multicolour radar displays, touch-screen voice communications, and touch-screen work stations ...
 

Collaboration works well in New Zealand (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Data collected as a result of the collaborative flow management (CFM) system jointly established by Barco and Airways New Zealand shows fewer delays, less emissions and improved efficiency. ...
 

Intelcan on track in Korea (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Canadian manufacture Intelcan reports factory acceptance for its Skycontrol ATM automation system, and Skysurv Mode-S MSSR, due delivery to South Korea in late 2010 under the SSR/ARTS programme. ...
 

FAA opts for Luciad software (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

The FAA has awarded Luciad a contract worth up to USD4.5 million to supply high-end visualization and Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for ...
 

Denmark listens to Ricochet (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Naviair of Denmark has selected Ricochet to supply a fully redundant recording system to Billund - the second largest airport in Denmark – for delivery by the ...
 

Carmanah ADB team wins Venezuela project (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

The Venezuela Air Force has selected the Carmanah Technologies and ADB Airfield Solutions team to supply a joint solar and AC-powered airfield lighting system, valued in excess of ...
 

...and enhances surface management software (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Sensis introduced a predictive capability to its Aerobahn airport surface management system at the ATCA show in Washington in October. The Aerobahn Predictive ...
 

Sensis passes project milestones… (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Sensis Corporation reports 32 out of 35 planned airports are now operating with Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X) under the FAA’s ...
 

ADS-B reaches in-service decision (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

The FAA has given its approval for nationwide deployment of the satellite-based air traffic surveillance system, Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B). Since 2007, ITT has been under ...
 

Comsoft wins additional surveillance tracker and server contracts (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

UK NATS has ordered nine additional ARTAS systems to provide advanced surveillance tracking at three locations: Swanwick, Prestwick, and Whiteley. Comsoft will supply ...
 

ARINC-Lockheed Martin team to bid US Air Force contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Lockheed Martin has teamed with ARINC to provide the US Air Force with a new deployable radar system designed to rapidly establish airfield operations anywhere in the ...
 

Denmark enhances tower operations (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Naviair of Denmark has selected Nav Canada’s ATIS and VOLMET technology to broadcast weather and other flight information to pilots at Danish control towers. Naviair has already selected ...
 

Indra to modernise Kuwait ATC facilities (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Kuwait's General Directorate of Civil Aviation has awarded Indra a Eur20 million contract to modernise the country’s ATM system. Indra is supplying the approach control and tower systems ...
 

FAA nominates Raytheon’s STARS solution for TAMR 3 (ATC Global Insight Edition 68)

Under the Terminal Automation Modernization Replacement (TAMR) Phase 3 programme, the FAA announced in late October it will modernise all seven Terminal IIIE Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACONs) ...
 

WebTrack celebrates 50 installations (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Brüel & Kjaer Environment Management Solutions (formerly Lochard) reports its WebTrak flight tracking and noise monitoring solution is operational in over 50 airport communities around the world. The ...
 

ADB certifies LED runway edge light (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

ADB Airfield Solutions (ADB) reports introduction of the first ETL-certified medium-intensity L-861 and L-861E LED runway edge light. The long-lasting LED fixture, which operates for more than 150,000 ...
 

FAA selects Lockheed Martin to support NISC III (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead the performance-based contract - the National Airspace System Integration Support Contract ...
 

PRISMA software begins operations in Switzerland (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Two advanced display solutions supplied by COMSOFT have gone into operation in Emmen and Payerne military airfields according to equipment supplier Comsoft. The PRIMSA displays provide radar approach ...
 

Avlite supplies solar LED lights to US Air Force (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Avlite is supplying its AV425 solar powered LED obstruction lights to Claiborne Range for US Air Force training operations. The AV425 will provide pilots and ground crew ...
 

Barco completes US Army display replacement programme (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Barco reports delivery of its ISIS 2k by 2k LCD displays under the US Army's STARS (Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System) MDM (Main ...
 

Cairns installs new landing aids (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Cairns Airport in Australia has completed a AusD3 million upgrade of an Instrument Landing System supplied by Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems. The project is part of Airservices’ ...
 

Farnborough upgrades recording equipment (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Precision Applications reports installation of its Veristore communication and surveillance recording system at TAG London Farnborough Airport on behalf of NATS (Services) Ltd. The new system complies with ...
 

Taiwan accepts Thales system (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Taiwan Air Navigation & Weather Services (ANWS) has accepted the Eurocat automation system supplied by Thales Australia. The deployment incorporates over 27 sites, including two main centres situated ...
 

Egypt selects Era sensors (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Egypt’s National Air Navigation Services Company (NANSC) in Egypt has selected Era to deploy a surface surveillance solution at the Cairo International Airport. Era will supply its MSS ...
 

Frequentis integrates Swiss information workflow (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Swiss service provider skyguide has selected Frequentis’ centralized VOLMET and ATIS solution for Geneva and Zurich centres. Frequentis has already supplied its integrated voice switch for ATC under ...
 

Sensis works with NASA on airport conflict resolution (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Thirty-two major US airports are now operating with Sensis Corporation’s Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X), announced Sensis at ATCA 2010. The company also highlighted a predictive ...
 

MATS selects Searidge airport video system (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

At the ATCA meeting, Searidge Technologies announced that its IntelliDAR intelligent video solution has been selected by Malta Air Traffic Services (MATS) as the airport surface management system ...
 

Kazakhstan awards USD49.9 contract to Lockheed Martin (ATC Global Insight Edition 67)

Kazaeronavigatsia announced a USD49.9 million contract award to Lockheed Martin at the ATCA 2010 meeting in Washington 24-27 October 2010. Lockheed Martin will deploy its Skyline automation system ...
 

Carmanah acquires Lightech Electronic Industries (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Carmanah Technologies Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Lightech Electronic Industries for USD18.5 million. Lightech supplies LED ...
 

Metron secures “best paper” at Digital Avionics Systems Conference (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Metron Aviation’s research paper NextGen Flow Corridors Initial Design, Procedures and Display Functionalities, was voted best paper in the Human Factors and Special Topics Track at the 29th ...
 

Jeppesen launches real-time GPS based navigation tool (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Jeppesen, and partner DW International have launched a Jeppesen FlitePlan RNP predictor tool. The service allows operators to switch from using traditional ground-based waypoint routes and procedures to ...
 

Indra wins ESA surveillance contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Indra a EUR5.4 million contract to design a surveillance system to detect objects in space. Indra will also determine its ...
 

Park Air supplies electronic flight strips to Prague (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Honeywell has announced it has finalized a research agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to evaluate and demonstrate NextGen Air Traffic Management ...
 

Honeywell awarded FAA 4-D trajectory research (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Honeywell has announced it has finalized a research agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to evaluate and demonstrate NextGen Air Traffic Management ...
 

…and reports full operation of Abu Dhabi PRISMA flight plan software (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of Abu Dhabi has site accepted Comsoft’s PRISMA automation software, complete with the capability to process new flight plan formats as well ...
 

…achieves AIXM 5.1 eAIP site acceptance in Estonia… (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Estonian Air Navigation Services (EANS) has signed site acceptance certificates for the eAIP system based on Comsoft’s AIXM 5 compliant aeronautical database CADAS-AIMDB ...
 

Comsoft wins Italian job… (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Italian service provider ENAV has selected Comsoft and local partner ARCTRADE to supply eight ARTAS radar tracking systems for the ATC centres in Roma, Milan, Padova and Brindisi. ...
 

Egis team selected by Eurocontrol to assess CASCADE safety case (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Eurocontrol has selected Egis Avia to provide support to the CASCADE programme which aims to coordinate European implementation of Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B). The CASCADE programme covers ...
 

Ricochet records in Peru (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

Ricochet is supplying its video and audio record and replay solution to Lima area control centre under a contract awarded by Indra
 

FAA renews flight services contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 66)

The FAA has awarded Lockheed Martin a USD356 million, three-year contract option to continue the Automated Flight Service Stations (AFSS) contract for general aviation users from October 2010. ...
 

Terma to supply surface movement radars to Chengdu Shuangliu Airport (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Terma Radar Systems have been awarded a contract for two Scanter 2001i Surface Movement Radars (SMR) to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in China. With this Terma will ...
 

Frequentis to work with Zabbix (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Frequentis and Zabbix have announced a technical partnership to work together on software and monitoring solutions for safety critical applications. The Zabbix monitoring tool is used within the ...
 

SRA sells Airport Operations Solutions Group to ITT (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

SRA International has entered into an agreement to sell its Airport Operations Solutions (AOS) group to ITT Corporation. AOS (previously known as Rannoch Corporation) developed AirScene.com software to provide ...
 

Sensis Aerobahn adds proactive management capability (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Sensis Corporation has announced the availability of Dynamic Rules Alerting for its Aerobahn® surface management system. Dynamic Rules Alerting enables airlines and airport owner/operators to create customized, highly complex ...
 

Entry Point North targets international market (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Nordic training academy Entry Point North has joined with LFV Aviation Consulting to expand the training services on offer. The partnership will provide training and consultancy services to ...
 

Airtel ATN and Ubitech join together to serve Asia Pacific markets (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Airtel ATN has partnered with Ubitech to jointly provide Aeronautical Message Handling System (AMHS) and ATN solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. The companies ...
 

Copperchase to upgrade Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen data processing system (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen International Airport has selected Copperchase to upgrade the ATC Data System originally installed by the company a decade ago. The new system includes a Copperchase ...
 

Adacel launches flight plan converter (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Adacel has launched a new tool designed to convert formats between the existing and the planned ICAO new flight plan. The flight plan converter is intended to help ...
 

Telephonics completes Macau installation (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Telephonics reports site acceptance of its AeroTrac automation system at Macau International Airport. The system includes advanced flight plan data processing, surveillance data fusion processing for ADS-B and ...
 

Estonia adds electronic input forms (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Estonia is extending its electronic data applications with the addition of web-based electronic input forms supplied by Comsoft. Comsoft recently supplied AIXM 5.1-based eAIP and AIM solutions at ...
 

NATS extends Altran Praxis partnership (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

NATS has awarded Altran Praxis a contract to support and maintain the Traffic Load Prediction Device (TLPD) that provides a forecast of air ...
 

Malaysia trains with Ubitech (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

The Malaysian Aviation Academy (MAVA) has selected Ubitech and local partner Puncak Teknologi to supply an AFTN simulator. The delivery includes a fully functional AFTN message switch deployed ...
 

Austrian Air Force to use AviBit electronic flight strips (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

The Austrian Air Force has awarded a contract to AviBit and Austro Control for the provision of electronic flight strips for its flight operations. Austro Control is providing ...
 

HITT receives more Chinese orders (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

HITT is to supply its A-SMGCS solution to Xi'an Airport in China, the country’s eighth largest airport handling 15.3 million passengers in 2009. The new contracts represent a ...
 

French Guiana selects Adacel ADS and CPDLC (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

French service provider DSNA has selected Adacel to supply a demonstration system to provide ADS-C and CPDLC services in Cayenne, French Guiana. The Cayenne-Rochambeau Centre controls an area ...
 

… and ARINC data-link station (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

ARINC Direct (SM) has announced it has deployed a new air/ground communications station at London Oxford Airport to enhance both air and ground coverage for customers of ...
 

London Oxford airport buys Precision Applications recording system… (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Precision Applications has been chosen to supply and install a new voice and radar recording system for the ATC Communications System Project at London Oxford Airport. The new ...
 

Flight-Yield expands customer base (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Fiji is the latest country to begin operating the 21 Sept: Airways continues to establish Flight-YieldTM as the aviation industry’s leading automated aeronautical billing
 

…and upgrades Belgian surveillance network (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

Belgocontrol has selected Thales to supply its STAR 2000 and co-mounted Mode S RSM 970 S radar to upgrade surveillance at Brussels National, Ostend and Charleroi airports. The ...
 

Thales to supply Eurocat to the Congo… (ATC Global Insight Edition 65)

The Congolese Ministry of Transport has selected Thales to supply its Eurocat automation system and install Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Buta, Mbandaka and ...
 

Mesa, Arizon, to make flight tracking services available (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

Brüel & Kjaer has been selected by the City of Mesa, Arizona, to provide its FlightOps Flight Tracking subscription service at the general aviation airport Falcon Field. FlightOps ...
 

Jeppesen extends services across Russia (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

The Russian Ministry of Transportation has agreed to supply Jeppesen with access to Russian domestic airport data, extending an existing agreement covering Russia’s domestic airway system. With access ...
 

Systems Interface supplies solar airfield lighting (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

Southampton became the first UK airport to use solar powered LED Wig Wag lighting at runway and taxiway intersections in early September. Supplied by integrator Systems Interface, the ...
 

Naverus introduces RNP public procedure in the US (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

GE subsidiary Naverus reports introduction of a new landing procedure at Bradley International Airport in the US based on Required Navigation Performance (RNP). ...
 

ARINC datalink services renewed by Norway and Denmark (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

Norway and Denmark have renewed their service agreements with ARINC for the delivery of essential data link applications including digital automatic terminal information services (D-ATIS) operational at Oslo ...
 

Poland manages staff resources with Quintiq (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

Poland’s air navigation service provider PANSA has selected the integrated Quintiq Workforce Planning Solution to manage staff requirements, rostering and ATC officer position planning across its centres. Quintiq ...
 

Paris records with Ricochet (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

Recording specialist Ricochet is to supply eight record and replay systems to the airports around Paris under a contract awarded by the SNA-RP (Air Navigation Services Paris Area). ...
 

Egis wins additional defence simulation work (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

The French Defence Agency (DGA) has selected Egis Avia to deploy further simulation and training systems for Navy air traffic controllers under the SECAM project. The Egis-led consortium ...
 

Adacel extends datalink network (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

The Directorate of Air Navigation Services of France (DSNA) has selected Adacel to deploy a demonstration system to provide ADS-C and CPDLC services in Cayenne, French Guiana. The ...
 

Tajikistan chooses WAM solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

Tajikaeronavigation, the Republic of Tajikistan’s air navigation service provider (ANSP), has selected Era to provide a nationwide wide area multilateration (WAM) solution in the Republic of Tajikistan. Era ...
 

New contract awards for Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

NATS UK has selected Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems to supply its NOVA 9000 system to provide surface movement and air traffic monitor ...
 

Colombia selects Selex (ATC Global Insight Edition 64)

Aeronautica Civil de Colombia has selected Selex Sistemi Integrati to upgrade the radar system set in Cerro Maco, near San Jacinto, in the region of Bolivar in ...
 

Jeppesen introduces global weather application (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

Jeppesen has introduced a real-time weather service as part of its FliteDeck Pro electronic flight bag. The en route service features graphical and textual weather display options which ...
 

New design for frangible ILS towers (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

The result of two years’ development work, the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), Europoles (a German manufacturer) and Select Engineering Services (SES) have developed and tested the first frangible ...
 

Liege Airport installs new LED lighting (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

ADB Airfield Solutions has installed LED taxiway lighting Liege Airport in Belgium, replacing the halogen fixtures. Liege is the first Belgian airfield to ...
 

Airservices builds new Melbourne service centre (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

Airservices Australia is investing AUD20 million in a new service centre in Melbourne. The new centre will house the engineers, technicians and equipment ...
 

Calgary opts for Carmanah solar lights (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

Calgary Airport Authority has selected Carmanah solar LED airfield lights as part of a facility upgrade. The first phase installation includes Carmanah A704-5 solar LED airfield lights fitted ...
 

Georgia changes navaids (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

Sakaeronavigatsia of Georgia has selected Systems Interface to supply two marker beacon systems at Tbilisi International Airport and a NDB system at Mestia ...
 

Ubitech wins Curacao contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

Netherlands Antilles (NAATC) has awarded Ubitech a contract to supply its Ubimex AMHS to upgrade the system installed by the company in Curacao. ...
 

Egis wins satellite data study contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

The European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) has selected Egis Avia to conduct quality and safety audits related to the implementation of safety & quality management systems for the ...
 

Sensis studies NextGen concepts for NASA (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) NextGen Airportal has selected Sensis to perform a cost-benefit analysis of select NASA concepts and ...
 

Middle East expands AMHS network (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

The Middle East has expanded it AMHS message handling system with the addition of the navigation service providers of Saudi Arabia (GACA) and Egypt (NANSC) establishing another operational ...
 

Chile switches to Frequentis (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

DGAC Chile has completed installation of the voice communication control system (VCCS) supplied by Frequentis. The VCS 3020X system complies with Eurocae WG67 specifications and offers an integrated ...
 

Zurich deploys arosa de-icing planning tool (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

Delair Air Traffic Systems has developed a planning system for de-icing operations at Zurich International Airport. The arosa planning tool determines future demand for de-icing operations at the ...
 

Indra selected to upgrade height monitoring units (ATC Global Insight Edition 61)

Eurocontrol has selected Indra to upgrade all three European Height Monitoring Units (HMU) systems operated by the agency. The equipment is installed in three sites: Nattenheim in Germany, ...
 

Flight planning service for small airline market (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Rocketroute.com is a new flight planning service for general aviation and small airlines flying in Europe launched in June. RocketRoute.com works from the web and from ...
 

JAA signs agreement with ENAC (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

The Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organisation (JAA TO) – an associated body of ECAC – has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French training establishment Ecol Nationale ...
 

Nav Canada acquires majority share in Searidge Technologies (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Nav Canada has acquired a majority interest in Searidge Technologies, supplier of the intelligent video platform IntelliDAR. The non-cooperative surveillance system System (NCSS) provides detection, positioning, and tracking of ...
 

New Zealand trains Middle Eastern controllers (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

State-owned Enterprise, Airways New Zealand, has secured a multi- million dollar contract to provide English language and air traffic control (ATC) training ...
 

Russia certifies Era’s multilateration surveillance system (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Era reports its MSS multilateration and ADS-B system has been certified for operational use by the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) for use in Russia following a seven-month process ...
 

Fiji commissions Comsoft ATN backbone (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

The air navigation service provider of Fiji has completed the cut-over of the new AMHS/ATN and AIS system delivered by Comsoft. The system includes Comsoft’s CADAS AIS system ...
 

German Air Force returns to Comsoft radar data network (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

The multiphase radar data network project of the German Air Force will be complemented by adding a second, classified data network to the existing infrastructure. Both networks are ...
 

CSC simulation systems selected to train FAA students (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Four additional universities have selected a total of 12 NexSim Radar and two Tower simulation training systems supplied by CSC. The equipment will go to Miami Dade College, ...
 

Micro Nav achieves ISO 9001:2008 standard and TickIT scheme (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Micro Nav, the UK simulation and training systems specialise reports re-certification of its Quality Management System for compliance against ISO
 

London Stansted surface surveillance capability matches Heathrow and Gatwick (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Sensis Corporation’s surface multilateration system at London Stansted went into full operation in June 2010. NATS controllers use the system to monitor the movement of aircraft and vehicles ...
 

Airports in China and Egypt select HITT A-SMGCS (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

HITT reports contracts worth EUR5 million for its A-SMGCS systems. The Air Traffic Management Bureau of the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) has ...
 

EIZO supplies monitors to Sweden (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Sweden’s LFV has taken delivery of more than 120 montiors from Eizo Nanao Corporation at its en route centres in Stockholm and Malmo. The monitors installed are the ...
 

Chinese executives benefit from FAA training programme (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Telephonics reports training the first Chinese executives from the ATM Bureau at its new research and development facility in Huntington, New York. The training was part of the ...
 

Coflight passes milestone (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

The three service providers of France (DSNA), Italy (ENAV) and Switzerland (skyguide) have accepted Version 1 of the next generation flight data processing (FDP) progamme called Coflight. Coflight ...
 

Switzlerand switches on runway alerts at Zurich and Geneva (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Zurich and Geneva became the latest airports to adopt the Runway Incursion Monitoring and Conflict Alert System (RIMCAS) as part of their A-SMGCS system at the end of ...
 

SWIM SUIT prototype delivered (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

SELEX Sistemi has delivered a prototype demonstrator as the final result of the three-year European research programme System Wide Information Management Supported by Innovative Technologies (SWIM SUIT). The ...
 

FAA spends USD125 million on green technology (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

The FAA has announced contracts worth USD125 million over five years to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel ...
 

Vaisala wins USD2.7 million RVR contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

The FAA awarded Vaisala a contract worth USD2.7 million to supply its AviMet PC-based Runway Visual Range (RVR) system for airports across the country at the end of ...
 

Egis studies solar interference (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

Eurocontrol has selected a team including Egis Avia, DSNA of France, ENAC and the French Space Agency (CNES) to study ionosphere effects on global navigation ...
 

FAA awards final set of SE2020 engineering contracts (ATC Global Insight Edition 59)

FAA has announced the final two contracts under the multi billion System Engineering (SE2020) to perform engineering work for the US modernization ...
 

Terma upgrades surface movement radar (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Terma has upgraded its Doppler SCANTER ground surveillance radar in order to operate reliably in difficult environments, such as desert locations with high ambient temperatures. The radar operates ...
 

FAA approves Gulfstream FANS 1/A data link (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.’s Flight Operations department has received FAA approval to use the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) 1/A data link on its G450 aircraft. Gulfstream is the ...
 

Rohde & Schwarz displays IP radios (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Rohde & Schwarz used the ILA meeting in Berlin to show its R&S Series 4200 radio family with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capability. Demonstrated at ATC Global ...
 

UFA wins LeTourneau contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

LeTourneau University (LETU) in Texas, has selected simulation equipment from UFA Inc including ATTower, ATCoach, ATView, ATRadio and ATVoice. The LETU School of Aeronautical Sciences is part of ...
 

Free air traffic flow management webinar (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

“Integrated Air Traffic Flow Management, the Future of Global Aviation Harmonisation,”  in association with Metron Aviation and moderated by Philip Butterworth-Hayes, ATC ...
 

Airservices to roll out Metron flow management solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Airservices has chosen Metron Aviation’s traffic flow product to enhance airspace capacity and efficiency under a 15-year contract award. The company’s air traffic flow management (ATFM) system passed ...
 

Northrop Grumman to equip Hanoi’s new control tower (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems is to supply an integrated tower solution and A-SMGCS to the recently built 80 metre high tower at Noi Bai International Airport, ...
 

Hong Kong opts for Frequentis tower solution (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

The Civil Aviation Department (CAD) of Hong Kong has selected Frequentis’ electronic flight strips for the airport’s two towers. The software includes smartStrips flight data software, datalink departure ...
 

FAA selects Lockheed maintenance team (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Lockheed Martin secured a five-year, USD28 million contract to upgrade FAA logistics software. The company's Unified Logistics Solutions unit is leading a team - including ABeam Consulting, IFS, ...
 

ADB wins Skopje lighting contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Skopje Airport has selected ADB to upgrade the airport’s ground lighting system, supplied by the Belgian manufacturer in the 1990s. The project includes the complete renewal of the ...
 

…and ASECNA purchases Thales navaids (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

The Agency for the Security of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) has awarded Thales a contract to supply of 27 VHF ...
 

Afghanistan selects Thales WAM… (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

The Afghan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MOTCA) has selected Thales to supply a wide area multilateration system (WAM) for Afghanistan. The system will provide surveillance in ...
 

Managed-AIS completes Eurocontrol AIXM 5.1 research (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Aeronautical information specialists Managed-AIS have completed an AIXM 5.1 research project for EUROCONTROL, the European Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation. The ...
 

ARINC renews data link services contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

The Department of Defense (DoD) renewed its contract with ARINC to provide data link services for commercial aviation, the US Air Force, and other government agencies for five ...
 

SITA deploys Africa's first VHF Digital Link station (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

SITA installed Africa’s first VHF data link (VDL) ground station in Johannesburg, South Africa in mid-May. SITA provides the world's airlines with a global network of 1,200 VHF ...
 

….as team member Harris wins FAA missions analysis contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Harris Corporation, as a member of The Boeing Company Systems Engineering 2020 (SE-2020) team, has been selected to provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with mission analysis and ...
 

Lockheed Martin joins SE2020 Boeing team… (ATC Global Insight Edition 58)

Lockheed Martin announced it has joined the Boeing team as a lead subcontractor under the FAA’s Systems Engineering 2020 (SE2020) contract - the ...
 

ADB installs lights at Skopje Airport (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

ADB has been selected to supply a turnkey lighting system to Skopje/Alexander the Great Airport. The programme comprises an upgrade of the Airport Lighting Control System (ALCS), the ...
 

Iridium funds next generation constellation (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

Iridium Communications Inc. announced plans to build its next-generation satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT. The company has awarded a fixed price contract to Thales Alenia Space, a joint company ...
 

Airservices Australia invests in instrument landing equipment (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

Airservices, Wagga Wagga City Council and Regional Express have entered a collaborative agreement to purchase, install and operate an Instrument Landing System (ILS) worth Aus1.1 million for Wagga ...
 

New Zealand launches RNP 0.1 arrival (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

Airways New Zealand reports the first use of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) down to RNP 0.1 level. Flight NZ 978 used advanced RNP ...
 

SITA opens new command centre (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

SITA reports completion of the first of two new command centres in Montreal to manage the global operations of its 3,200 air transport ...
 

Micro Nav supplies Indonesia (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

Micro Nav has successfully delivered another two 3D simulation training systems, gaining site acceptance from Sekolah Tinggi Penerbangan Indonesia (STPI), the Indonesian Civil Aviation Institute. The aviation training ...
 

Frequentis to supply voice switch to Libya (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

Frequentis will supply its VCS 3020X voice switch and separate radio backup system to Tripoli International Airport under a contract award from OEA ...
 

Abu Dhabi opts for WAM surveillance technology (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) of Abu Dhabi is extending its existing network of redundant Quadrant ground stations, supplied by Comsoft, with eight additional ADS-B/WAM sensors plus ...
 

…and models South African airspace (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

Jeppesen is assisting Air Traffic & Navigation Services (ATNS) of South Africa in its preparations for the influx of traffic that the 2010 FIFA World Cup games ...
 

Jeppesen introduces new flight tracking tool… (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 57)

Jeppesen has introduced flight planning capability called Jeppesen Flight Tracking that enables operators to view aircraft position reports within the JetPlan.com and ...
 

Turkmenistan installs news AMHS (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

Ubitech reports its Ubimex ATS Message Handling System passed site acceptance tests at Turkmenbashi International Airport in Turkmenistan. The communication system forms the backbone of Turkmenistan’s domestic and ...
 

Munich and Hamburg enhance ground surveillance (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

Era reports multilateration surveillance sensors (MSS) are now operational at Germany’s Munich and Hamburg international airports. The sensors provide extended coverage of runways, taxiways and aprons; improved automation ...
 

ARINC introduces data link service to counter ground delays (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

ARINC has launched an automatic alert capability to help airlines manage flight delays on the tarmac and avoid incurring penalties under strict new ...
 

Comsoft upgrades Rostov message switch (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

The Russian air navigation service provider FGUP AISS RTC has completed site acceptance tests of the new aeronautical messaging system supplied by Comsoft in Rostov-on-Don. The centre ...
 

Dusseldorf builds cooperative data network (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

Flughafen Dusseldorf is investing in cooperative planning measures to improve punctuality at the airport. The airport is setting up an Airport Control Centre (ACC) with the help ...
 

Edmonton selects Searidge surveillance (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

Edmonton International Airport has selected Searidge Technologies’ ATC grade video solution to enhance visibility at the new control tower due completion in 2012. As the new structure ...
 

FAA upgrades traffic flow management (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

The FAA Time Based Flow Management (TBFM) programme contract, awarded to Lockheed Martin in April, is part of the NextGen modernization programme to improve airspace operational efficiency. ...
 

Philippines exchanges AIS data with Europe (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 56)

Frequentis reports six months successful operation of the Frequentis AIM System by the Philippines CAA (CAAP). The AIS technology was installed in November 2009 and the remote ...
 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

DFS supervisory board appointed Dieter Kaden as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors for a further two years in early May 2010. Kaden has ...
 

Egis returns to Africa (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Etablissement de Gestion des Services Aéroportuaires (EGSA-Oran) has awarded Egis Avia a design and build contract at Oran Es-Senia Airport in Algeria. The work includes managing construction of ...
 

Link Simulation cements association with Grayson County College (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

The Link Simulation & Training Air Traffic Control Academy became affiliated with Grayson County College in Denison, Texas in April. The affiliation provides students interested in pursuing a ...
 

Jeppesen gains Australian certification (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) of Australia has certified Jeppesen to design, validate and maintain instrument flight procedures. The certification, granted under CASR Part 173, authorizes Jeppesen ...
 

Vietnam approves new AIM network (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

The Vietnamese air navigation service provider VANSCORP completed site acceptance and training of the aeronautical information management system supplied by Comsoft. The system interlinks 22 locations, and features ...
 

Telephonics opens new development centre (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Telephonics Corporation opened a 100,000 square foot facility in Huntington New York in April 2010 to house its Electronics Systems Division (ESD). The facility includes a laboratory for ...
 

Madrid installs Brüel & Kjær WebTrak service (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

AENA has launched an interactive WebTrak service supplied by Brüel & Kjær at Barajas airport in Madrid. WebTrak is a software tool that ...
 

Dubai selects Ricochet voice recording equipment (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Ricochet is supplying its voice recording system at Dubai International under a contract award with partner Bayanat Airports Engineering & Supply LCC. The system includes a recording capacity ...
 

Ukraine opts for Adacel MaxSim simulators (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

The Ukrainian State Air Traffic Service Enterprise (UkSATSE) has selected MaxSim simulators from Adacel at locations throughout the country. The contract includes one full-sized 360-degree MaxSim control tower ...
 

Frequentis supplies Iraq Air Command and Control (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors has selected Frequentis Defense Inc to supply its VCS for the Iraq Air Command and Control System (I-ACCS) Programme. Frequentis Defense ...
 

Delair helps Vienna’s tactical planning (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Delair reports full operation of its “sally” resource manager at Vienna Airport. The software was introduced for pre-planning tasks in 2009, and expanded to include tactical operations in ...
 

Netherlands selects Park Air communications (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL) has awarded Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems a multi-million dollar contract to upgrade to renew the air ...
 

FAA to upgrade flow management system (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

The FAA has awarded a team led by Lockheed Martin-led team an initial five year contact to develop and implement the Time Base Flow Management (TBFM) programme. ...
 

Searidge selected for FAA tower programme (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory has selected Searidge Technologies to supply its intelligent video platform IntelliDAR for a Staffed NextGen Tower (SNT) surveillance research programme commissioned ...
 

...and secures civil ATC contracts (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

Airservices Australia has completed a major upgrade of air navigation systems based on Lord Howe Island. The service provider has commissioned a new VHF radio and ADS-B ...
 

Cobham wins MoD contracts worth GBP12 million... (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Cobham contracts worth GBP12 million to upgrade and support key air traffic control systems and operations through to at ...
 

SELEX increases share of China radar market (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 55)

SELEX Sistemi Integrati has won a new contract with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), a USD 9 million deal to supply ...
 

...as Qatar accepts first Comsoft AMHS package (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

Qatar's AFTN/AMHS system located at the International Airport in Doha has been taken into operational service after having demonstrated its conformance to all pertinent ICAO SARPs. The prior ...
 

Dutch Air Force completes Comsoft upgrade... (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

The Royal Air Force of the Netherlands (RNLAF) has completed installation of Comsoft’s ARTAS surveillance data processing system as well as the company’s recording platform RRR and radar ...
 

Ubitech delivers AMHS and AIS services (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

Ubitech reports site acceptance of its Ubimex ATS Message Handling System (AMHS) by the Moldavian Air Traffic Services Authority (MOLDATSA). The installation is ...
 

Switzerland takes delivery of Mesange (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

Comsoft reports that its message handling system AIDA-NG has entered into full operation in Switzerland. System commissioning marks completion of the joint MESANGE project by Switzerland and ...
 

FAA selects Quintiq’s workforce planning software (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

The FAA has awarded a contract to Quintiq to provide an objective method for evaluating staff requirements at FAA control facilities. The indefinite quantity contract, awarded for ...
 

BEST 3d tower simulator (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

A BEST 3D tower simulator
 

Micro Nav wins Queen’s Award (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

Micro Nav has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for outstanding performance in exporting high technology training systems throughout the world. The UK specialist manufacturer has trebled ...
 

Kandahar takes delivery of new tower communications (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

NATO has taken delivery of new voice communications supplied by Harris/Solacom ATC for the new control tower at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, under contract from Thales ATM. The ...
 

Lockheed Martin radar selected to mitigate wind farm interference (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 54)

Lockheed Martin’s TPS-77 radar has been selected to provide long-range air surveillance radar system for the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD). Under a contract with Serco, Lockheed ...
 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 52 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 52)

Edition 52

European Commission adopts new flow management rules
On March 25th the European Commission adopted new rules on ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 51 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 51)

Edition 51

FAA predicts one billion passengers by ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 50 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 50)

Edition 50

Collaboration and competition key to future ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 49 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 49)

Edition 49

Atlantic flight data exchange
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 48 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 48)

Edition 48

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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 47 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 47)

Edition 47

Spain tackles ATM costs but worries controllers

The Spanish Government has ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 46 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 46)

Edition 46

Ethiopian Boeing 737 crashes near Beirut
All 90 people aboard an ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 45 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 45)

Edition 45

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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 44 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 44)

Edition 44

AIRE trials result in growing fuel savings

First results from phase ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 43 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 43)

Edition 43

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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 42 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 42)

Edition 42

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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 41 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 41)

Edition 41

Graham Lake appointed new CANSO Secretary General
Graham Lake has been appointed the new Secretary General of the Civil ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 39 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 39)

Edition 39

EGNOS starts open services 
At the start of October 2009 Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President for Transport Policy, announced ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 38 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 38)

Edition 38

FAA urged to review programme structure
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 37 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 37)

Edition 37

New ATM regulatory role for EASA agreed
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 36 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 36)

Edition 36

Congo Aeroflot AN-12 freighter crash – six reported fatalities
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 35 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 35)

Edition 35

Nine die in midair collision over the Hudson river
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 34 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 34)

Edition 34

Search under way for missing Indonesian DHC-6
A search is underway for survivors of a Merpati Nusantara Airline De Havilland ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 32 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 32)

Edition 32

Yemenia A310-300 crash – 152 feared dead
A Yemenia Airbus A310-300 with 153 people on board crashed into the sea ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 31 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 31)

Edition 31

Eur 1.9 billion funding released for SESAR
The ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 30 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 30)

Edition 30

Air France A330 crash – wreckage site searches
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 29 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 29)

Edition 29

FAA ATC system “vulnerable to malicious code attacks”
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 28 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 28)

Edition 28
 

NTSB 2008 accident survey reveals mixed results
US National Transportation Safety Board preliminary US aviation accident statistics ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 27 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 27)

Edition 27

Aviation summit targets efficiency
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 26 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 26)

Edition 26
 

From this issue ATMInsight, incooperation with the International Federation of Controllers’ Associations (IFATCA), will publish regular IFATCA news bulletins.

European ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 25 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 25)

Edition 25
 

LATVIA joins NEAP consortium
The national air traffic services providers of Latvia, Latvijas Gaisa Satiksme (LGS) is ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 24 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 24)

Edition 24
 

European 2008 air traffic delay times down, flight numbers up
During 2008 the average delay per movement was ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 23 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 23)

Edition 23

THY Boeing 737 crashes at Schiphol
Nine ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 22 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 22)

Edition 22

Colgan Air Dash 8 crashes near Buffalo in snow

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 21 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 21)

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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 20 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 20)

Edition 20

Denver runway crash injures 38 passengers
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 19 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 19)

Edition 19

SESAR introduces collaborative approach to ATM
The ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 18 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 18)

Edition 18

Air New Zealand A320 crashes during test flight
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ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 17 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 17)

Edition 17

Runway incursion dangers quantified
“During the twelve ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 16 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 16)

Edition 16

Controller shortage problems continue
IFATCA reports continued ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 15 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 15)

Edition 15

Africa flies RVSM

The ICAO Africa-Indian region became the latest to ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 14 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 14)

Edition 14  

Airports, airlines forecast traffic slowdown

Airports Council International (ACI) released its Global Traffic Forecast 2008-2027 in September 2008, warning of traffic ...

 

ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 13 (ATM Insight Newsletter Issue 13)

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Jeppesen introduces global weather application (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

Jeppesen has introduced a real-time weather service as part of its FliteDeck Pro electronic flight bag. The en route service features graphical and textual weather display options which ...
 

New design for frangible ILS towers (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

The result of two years’ development work, the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), Europoles (a German manufacturer) and Select Engineering Services (SES) have developed and tested the first frangible ...
 

Liege Airport installs new LED lighting (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

ADB Airfield Solutions has installed LED taxiway lighting Liege Airport in Belgium, replacing the halogen fixtures. Liege is the first Belgian airfield to ...
 

Airservices builds new Melbourne service centre (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

Airservices Australia is investing AUD20 million in a new service centre in Melbourne. The new centre will house the engineers, technicians and equipment ...
 

Calgary opts for Carmanah solar lights (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

Calgary Airport Authority has selected Carmanah solar LED airfield lights as part of a facility upgrade. The first phase installation includes Carmanah A704-5 solar LED airfield lights fitted ...
 

Georgia changes navaids (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

Sakaeronavigatsia of Georgia has selected Systems Interface to supply two marker beacon systems at Tbilisi International Airport and a NDB system at Mestia Airport in early 2011. Tbilisi ...
 

Ubitech wins Curacao contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

Netherlands Antilles (NAATC) has awarded Ubitech a contract to supply its Ubimex AMHS to upgrade the system installed by the company in Curacao. ...
 

Egis wins satellite data study contract (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

The European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) has selected Egis Avia to conduct quality and safety audits related to the implementation of safety & quality management systems for the ...
 

Sensis studies NextGen concepts for NASA (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) NextGen Airportal has selected Sensis to perform a cost-benefit analysis of select NASA concepts and ...
 

Middle East expands AMHS network (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

The Middle East has expanded it AMHS message handling system with the addition of the navigation service providers of Saudi Arabia (GACA) and Egypt (NANSC) establishing another operational ...
 

Chile switches to Frequentis (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

DGAC Chile has completed installation of the voice communication control system (VCCS) supplied by Frequentis. The VCS 3020X system complies with Eurocae WG67 specifications and offers an integrated ...
 

Zurich deploys arosa de-icing planning tool (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

Delair Air Traffic Systems has developed a planning system for de-icing operations at Zurich International Airport. The arosa planning tool determines future demand for de-icing operations at the ...
 

Indra selected to upgrade height monitoring units (ATC Global Insight Edition 71)

Eurocontrol has selected Indra to upgrade all three European Height Monitoring Units (HMU) systems operated by the agency. The equipment is installed in three sites: Nattenheim in Germany, ...
 

ATC Global 2012 conference nominated for Best CEO Conference ahead of UK Conference Awards...