FAA Expands Runway Status Lights

Sensis Corp was awarded a $131 million, three-year contract to install runway status lights at 22 major U.S. airports. The award from the Federal Aviation Administration includes two one-year options to install the lights at additional airports, for a total contract value of $215 million.
The award follows successful testing at Dallas-Fort Worth and San Diego and an agency decision to deploy the lights at the same airports where the Airport Surface Detection Equipment Model X (ASDE-X) systems are being installed. The lights use the ASDE-X surveillance data to operate.
As part of the initial contract, runway status lights will be deployed at Atlanta; Baltimore Washington International; Boston; Charlotte, NC; Chicago O’Hare; Dallas-Fort Worth; Denver; Detroit; Washington Dulles; Fort Lauderdale; Houston Intercontinental; New York John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; Newark, N.J.; Orlando, Fla.; Philadelphia; Phoenix; San Diego; and Seattle airports.