RI&S to improve FAA’s space-based precision navigation system to help safer air journey
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business ( NYSE: RTX), has been awarded a aggressive indefinite supply indefinite amount contract from the Federal Aviation Administration with a ceiling worth of $375 million over the following 10 years. Task orders, valued at $215 million, had been executed at contract award to present technical refresh and Dual Frequency Operation (DFO) upgrades to the FAA’s Wide-Area Augmentation System, or WAAS, a space-based precision navigation system, that can improve safer air journey in help of the National Airspace System.
Under the WAAS DFO-2 contract, RI&S will ship extra trendy, and due to this fact sustainable, processing, system safety, and community structure, whereas additionally including twin frequency service.
“There is no margin for error during take-off, flight or landing,” mentioned Denis Donohue, president, Surveillance & Network Systems at RI&S. “Our modernization effort for WAAS will improve system robustness during ionospheric events and ensure safety-of-life requirements continue to be met.”
WAAS is a Satellite-based Augmentation System (SBAS), which offers GPS corrections for important navigation for the aviation group, first responders and different authorities businesses, guaranteeing pilots can land safely in austere environments, regardless of climate challenges. It additionally offers corrections for SBAS-capable receivers in use throughout a various set of communities, together with agriculture, maritime and surveyance, amongst others.
Raytheon Technologies has been the prime improvement contractor for WAAS since 1996. Since reaching preliminary operational functionality in 2003, Raytheon Technologies and the FAA have developed and fielded dozens of enhancements increasing WAAS’s precision method functionality, protection space, and reliability, together with enhancements to the system infrastructure in preparation for Dual Frequency service. WAAS Dual Frequency service will allow elevated system accuracy, integrity, and availability when topic to ionospheric perturbations, together with photo voltaic storms.
Work for this effort is predicated in Fullerton, California.
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Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and protection firm that gives superior methods and providers for industrial, army and authorities prospects worldwide. With 4 industry-leading companies ― Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the corporate delivers options that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed vitality, electrical propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The firm, shaped in 2020 by means of the mixture of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace companies, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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