China Runway Monitoring System

A subsidiary of Rannoch Corp. signed two agreements with China to deploy its Multisensor Surveillance System (MSS) to provide parallel runway monitoring and surface management for Beijing International Airport. Financial details of the contracts were not disclosed. Rannoch subsidiary ERA said this selection by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is believed to be the first time wide area multilateration technology will be used for a parallel runway monitoring system. MSS is based on extended ADS (ADS-X), which enables highly accurate tracking of aircraft by combining a variety of techniques, including Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and multilateration. In December, Rannoch, Alexandria, Va., announced a contract to deploy its MSS network at airports managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The company said the system will upgrade aircraft tracking, identification and billing systems at JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and Teterboro Airports. More