Honeywell Awarded JPALS Development Contract

Honeywell has been awarded a $5.2 million contract for research and development of the U.S. Air Force Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS). The JPALS program will develop differential GPS (DGPS) systems to provide rapidly deployable, mobile, day-night, all weather precision approach and landing capability for military aircraft, replacing legacy approach and landing systems with a single system. The system also will be interoperable with Honeywell’s civil Ground Based Augmentation System (GBAS), currently slated for 2008 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Category I approval.
The Honeywell-led team will test key elements, perform software development studies and conduct program analysis for a land-based DGPS capability aimed at achieving Category II and III approach performance levels. Partner companies are Sierra Nevada, Boeing and QinetiQ. The team received a $4.2 million contract in March to support the U.S. Navy’s sea-based JPALS program.