ATM Modernization

SWIM: NextGen’s IT Infrastructure

System Wide Information Management (SWIM), the IT component of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), is laying the technological infrastructure for the future airspace. Using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems, SWIM aims to…

ATM Modernization

People

Rod Bissell QinetiQ North America, based in Huntsville, Ala., appointed Rod Bissell senior vice president of business development at its Systems Engineering Group, responsible for managing the group’s Aerospace & Missile Technology…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

September 2-3 Search & Rescue Summit, featuring the Helicopter Heroism Award, sponsored by Rotor & Wing Magazine. Hyatt Regency Reston, Reston, Va. Visit www.aviationtoday.com/sar. 2-3 FAA/Air Transport Association International Symposium on Human…

Commercial

Q&A: Forging Consensus On Future Airspace

Margaret T. Jenny last month completed her first year as president of RTCA, Inc., a private, not-for-profit corporation that develops consensus-based recommendations for aviation communications, navigation, surveillance and air-traffic management. She succeeded…

ATM Modernization

Sensis ADSE-X Operational at Newark

Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X) system from Sensis, based in Syracuse, N.Y., is now operational at Newark Liberty International Airport. ASDE-X, a runway incursion detection and alerting system, is now operational at 18…

Military

Lockheed Martin Test Bed Gets FAA OK

An intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) test bed from Lockheed Martin received an Experimental Air Worthiness Certificate from FAA. The company said its Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory (AML), which is a reconfigured Gulfstream III business…

Commercial

CSSI Awarded RVSM Contract

CSSI, based in Washington, D.C., was awarded a five-year, $9.5 million contract to work with FAA and ICAO on vertical, lateral and longitudinal separation standards for air traffic. Under the contract, CSSI…

Commercial

Thales Completes Phase of Mexico ATM Upgrade

Thales said it completed phase four of the Mexico’s nationwide air traffic modernization program for the country’s Air Navigation Service Provider (SENEAM1). The fourth phase of the program, which Thales began in…