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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Cassidian reports completion of certification measurements of its MSSR 2000 I secondary radar by the AIMS programme office of the US Department of Defense.
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Luciad has recently developed a complete product portfolio that enables the development of cloud-based Geospatial Situational Awareness applications and services. This offering ranges ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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), ...
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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, ...
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LightSquared has reached agreement with Inmarsat to amend the cooperation agreement between the two companies to support its efforts to build a national ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Aerospace experts lead project to evaluate video system
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, March 6, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - ATC Global Stand R420 - Searidge Technologies, provider of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Intelcan has commissioned an ATM system for the Department of Civil Aviation in Suriname. The company has also commissioned a SkyCom AMHS in Suriname. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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The China Air Traffic Management Bureau has purchased a total of 295 ATC radios from Rohde & Schwarz, to be installed at 20 locations in ...
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Rohde & Schwarz will support DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH in modernizing 100 radio stations by the year 2018. This will enable DFS to switch from ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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SITA and Egis - through its subsidiary Egis Avia - have announced that they have been selected by NATS to provide the air traffic ...
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IHS Jane’s announced the winners of its 2012 Jane’s ATC Awards.
- Operational efficiency (for improving ATM operational efficiency) – Airports Authority of India
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Acting Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta and aviation partners have kicked off a collaborative effort to make air traffic control more efficient, help ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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Harris Corporation has been awarded two contracts to modernize the air traffic control systems (ATC) at two regional airports in Indonesia. Harris will supply ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Airbus has announced a series of improved air traffic management procedures and reduced fuel consumption programmes:
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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 ...
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Comsoft has announced the following contract awards at the exhibition:
- FINAVIA of Finland: WAM implementation for the Southwest of ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Lockheed Martin signed a teaming agreement with Indonesian technology firm PT CMI Teknologi to jointly pursue the National Airspace Surveillance – Republic of Indonesia (NASRI) ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Stratech Systems has launched a design competition to seek an iconic design for the next generation of the iFerret, the Foreign Objects & Debris (FOD) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Booz Allen Hamilton has won a US9.7 million task order to support the US Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ARINC Engineering Services, LLC has completed the procurement, integration, testing, and installation of new tower systems and equipment for two bases of the Iraqi ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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™ ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung has selected Rohde & Schwarz to modernise 100 radio stations by the year 2018. This will enable DFS to switch from 25 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Airbus has completed its acquisition of Metron Aviation. The US company now operates as a subsidiary of Airbus Americas,
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Precision Applications is currently installing seven ATC Recording Systems in the UK, all of which will be operational by the end of November 2011. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Controllers at the Minneapolis Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) have started using a new tool developed by Lockheed Martin and the FAA to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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As a supplement to ab-initio training based on Eurocontrol Common Core Content, Entry Point North has introduced ICAO training courses. The ...
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The French air navigation service provider DSNA and Eurocontrol’s Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) have awarded Frequentis the development, deployment and maintenance ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sydney Airport has selected atg airports to upgrade the airfield lighting control system.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Netherlands Antilles Air Traffic Control (NAATC) has contracted Frequentis to replace the existing voice communications system (VCS) supplied by Frequentis at
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ITT Corporation announced the future names for its water technology and services business and its Defense & Information Solutions segment, which become standalone companies following ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Brüel & Kjær reports additional features for its FlightOps flight track monitoring service including the capability to display weather radar image overlays and display real ...
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Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has chosen Brüel & Kjær EMS to upgrade the ANOMS Noise and Operations Management System. Brüel & Kjær is supplying its latest ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Durham Tees Valley Airport has awarded the contract to supply and install their replacement ATC Recording System to Precision Applications. The proposed Veristore System ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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From 3 June 2011 passenger aircraft flying into and out of Tasmania's two main airports - Hobart and Launceston - will be under the control ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Brüel & Kjær EMS has enhanced its FlightOps flight track monitoring service that provides airports with timely access to information about where and when aircraft ...
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Brüel & Kjær EMS has enhanced its FlightOps flight track monitoring service that provides airports with timely access to information about where and when aircraft ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Aviation Renewables and its global partner Systems Interface teamed up to provide a Solar Series NDB for the Department of Civil Aviation in Mauritius. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ricochet is supplying its record and replay systems to three airports in Angola in partnership with Cartil Communications & Electronics Corporation. Ricochet will supply dual ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Lockheed Martin, Finmeccanica – through its UK company SELEX SI - and Cobham have signed an agreement to form Fusion Air Traffic Management, which will ...
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Honeywell' advanced traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) with SmartTraffic has been certified. TCAS with SmartTraffic improves traffic situational awareness and increases flight ...
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A study by GE Aviation claims airlines could save at least USD65.6 million annually while slashing carbon emissions and cutting flight times by ...
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HungaroControl opened a new central European research simulation centre in Budapest in May 2011. The centre enables the testing of newly developed theoretically ...
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Austro Control GmbH has selected Sensis Corporation to deploy a Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system across the country. Sensis WAM will provide highly ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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), ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Era reports its surveillance solution at Madrid Barajas went into full operation at the end of March 2011. Era worked with partner EMTE ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Aerothai is implementing Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) at Subarnabhumi International Airport. The service provider is introducing Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) which will benefit airlines ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Air Traffic Management Bureau of Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has selected Indra to supply air traffic management systems in Xian ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Comsoft reports full operation of its AIDA-NG message gateway at Brussels Airport. The system acts as a national and international distributor of flight ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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CISCEA of Brazil has awarded Honeywell Aerospace a contract to supply its SmartPath Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) at Galeao Antonio Carlos Jobim International ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sensis introduced a predictive capability to its Aerobahn airport surface management system at the ATCA show in Washington in October. The Aerobahn Predictive ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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UK NATS has ordered nine additional ARTAS systems to provide advanced surveillance tracking at three locations: Swanwick, Prestwick, and Whiteley. Comsoft will supply ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Lockheed Martin has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead the performance-based contract - the National Airspace System Integration Support Contract ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Barco reports delivery of its ISIS 2k by 2k LCD displays under the US Army's STARS (Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System) MDM (Main ...
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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’ ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Honeywell has announced it has finalized a research agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to evaluate and demonstrate NextGen Air Traffic Management ...
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Honeywell has announced it has finalized a research agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to evaluate and demonstrate NextGen Air Traffic Management ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Ricochet is supplying its video and
audio record and replay solution to Lima area control centre under a
contract awarded by Indra
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Airtel ATN has partnered with Ubitech to jointly provide Aeronautical Message Handling System (AMHS) and ATN solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. The companies ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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NATS has awarded Altran Praxis a contract to support and maintain the Traffic Load Prediction Device (TLPD) that provides a forecast of air ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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GE subsidiary Naverus reports introduction of a new landing procedure at Bradley International Airport in the US based on Required Navigation Performance (RNP). ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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). ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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NATS UK has selected Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems to supply its NOVA 9000 system to provide surface movement and air traffic monitor ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ADB Airfield Solutions has installed LED taxiway lighting Liege Airport in Belgium, replacing the halogen fixtures. Liege is the first Belgian airfield to ...
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Airservices Australia is investing AUD20 million in a new service centre in Melbourne. The new centre will house the engineers, technicians and equipment ...
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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 ...
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Sakaeronavigatsia of Georgia has selected Systems Interface to supply two marker beacon systems at Tbilisi International Airport and a NDB system at Mestia ...
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Netherlands Antilles (NAATC) has awarded Ubitech a contract to supply its Ubimex AMHS to upgrade the system installed by the company in Curacao. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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State-owned Enterprise, Airways New Zealand, has secured a multi- million dollar contract to provide English language and air traffic control (ATC) training ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Micro
Nav, the UK simulation and training systems specialise reports
re-certification of its Quality Management System for compliance
against ISO
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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 ...
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HITT reports contracts worth EUR5 million for its A-SMGCS systems. The Air Traffic Management Bureau of the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) has ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The FAA has announced contracts worth USD125 million over five years to develop and demonstrate technologies that will reduce commercial jet fuel ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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FAA has announced the final two contracts under the multi billion System Engineering (SE2020) to perform engineering work for the US modernization ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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“Integrated Air Traffic Flow Management, the Future of Global Aviation Harmonisation,” in association with Metron Aviation and moderated by Philip Butterworth-Hayes, ATC ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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The Agency for the Security of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) has awarded Thales a contract to supply of 27 VHF ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Lockheed Martin announced it has joined the Boeing team as a lead subcontractor under the FAA’s Systems Engineering 2020 (SE2020) contract - the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Airways New Zealand reports the first use of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) down to RNP 0.1 level. Flight NZ 978 used advanced RNP ...
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SITA reports completion of the first of two new command centres in Montreal to manage the global operations of its 3,200 air transport ...
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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 ...
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Frequentis will supply its VCS 3020X voice switch and separate radio backup system to Tripoli International Airport under a contract award from OEA ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Jeppesen has introduced flight planning capability called Jeppesen Flight Tracking that enables operators to view aircraft position reports within the JetPlan.com and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ARINC has launched an automatic alert capability to help airlines manage flight delays on the tarmac and avoid incurring penalties under strict new ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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AENA has launched an interactive WebTrak service supplied by Brüel & Kjær at Barajas airport in Madrid. WebTrak is a software tool that ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL) has awarded Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems a multi-million dollar contract to upgrade to renew the air ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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SELEX Sistemi Integrati has won a new contract with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), a USD 9 million deal to supply ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ubitech reports site acceptance of its Ubimex ATS Message Handling System (AMHS) by the Moldavian Air Traffic Services Authority (MOLDATSA). The installation is ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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A BEST 3D tower simulator
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Edition 52
European Commission adopts new flow management rules
On March 25th the European Commission adopted new rules on ...
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Edition 51
FAA predicts one billion passengers by ...
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Edition 50
Collaboration and competition key to future ...
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Edition 49
Atlantic flight data exchange
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Edition 47
Spain tackles ATM costs but worries controllers
The Spanish Government has ...
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Edition 46
Ethiopian Boeing 737 crashes near Beirut
All 90 people aboard an ...
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Edition 44
AIRE trials result in growing fuel savings
First results from phase ...
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Edition 41
Graham Lake appointed new CANSO Secretary General
Graham Lake has been appointed the new Secretary General of the Civil ...
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Edition 39
EGNOS starts open services
At the start of October 2009 Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President for Transport Policy, announced ...
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Edition 38
FAA urged to review programme structure
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Edition 37
New ATM regulatory role for EASA agreed
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Edition 36
Congo Aeroflot AN-12 freighter crash – six reported fatalities
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Edition 35
Nine die in midair collision over the Hudson river
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Edition 34
Search under way for missing Indonesian DHC-6
A search is underway for survivors of a Merpati Nusantara Airline De Havilland ...
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Edition 32
Yemenia A310-300 crash – 152 feared dead
A Yemenia Airbus A310-300 with 153 people on board crashed into the sea ...
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Edition 31
Eur 1.9 billion funding released for SESAR
The ...
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Edition 30
Air France A330 crash – wreckage site searches
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Edition 29
FAA ATC system “vulnerable to malicious code attacks”
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Edition 28
NTSB 2008 accident survey reveals mixed results
US National Transportation Safety Board preliminary US aviation accident statistics ...
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Edition 27
Aviation summit targets efficiency
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Edition 26
From this issue ATMInsight, incooperation with the International Federation of Controllers’ Associations (IFATCA), will publish regular IFATCA news bulletins.
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Edition 25
LATVIA joins NEAP consortium
The national air traffic services providers of Latvia, Latvijas Gaisa Satiksme (LGS) is ...
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Edition 24
European 2008 air traffic delay times down, flight numbers up
During 2008 the average delay per movement was ...
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Edition 23
THY Boeing 737 crashes at Schiphol
Nine ...
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Edition 22
Colgan Air Dash 8 crashes near Buffalo in snow
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Edition 20
Denver runway crash injures 38 passengers
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Edition 19
SESAR introduces collaborative approach to ATM
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Edition 18
Air New Zealand A320 crashes during test flight
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Edition 17
Runway incursion dangers quantified
“During the twelve ...
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Edition 16
Controller shortage problems continue
IFATCA reports continued ...
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Edition 15
Africa flies RVSM
The ICAO Africa-Indian region became the latest to ...
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Edition 14
Airports, airlines forecast traffic slowdown
Airports Council International (ACI) released its Global Traffic Forecast 2008-2027 in September 2008, warning of traffic ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ADB Airfield Solutions has installed LED taxiway lighting Liege Airport in Belgium, replacing the halogen fixtures. Liege is the first Belgian airfield to ...
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Airservices Australia is investing AUD20 million in a new service centre in Melbourne. The new centre will house the engineers, technicians and equipment ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Netherlands Antilles (NAATC) has awarded Ubitech a contract to supply its Ubimex AMHS to upgrade the system installed by the company in Curacao. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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