Formation Wins FAA Contract

FAA awarded Formation, Moorestown, N.J., a $5.7 million contract to design, develop, flight-qualify and produce its Data Collector Correlator (DCC) avionics box. Formation will develop the DCC hardware and software, perform integration testing and work to obtain FAA certification for the units. The DCC will fly in the FAA’s flight inspection fleet as a key element in its Next Generation Automated Flight Inspection System (NAFIS), a system that performs in-flight inspection of navigational aids. As the primary input/output interface for NAFIS, the DCC will collect, correlate and time-stamp data, originating in on-board flight-check instrumentation elements of NAFIS. NAFIS is hosted on FAA flight-check aircraft, including Canadair Challenger, Beech King Air and other multi- engine business jets and turboprops. For related news