Raytheon Intelligence & Area, a Raytheon Applied sciences enterprise (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. Activity orders, valued at $215 million, had been executed at contract award to offer technical refresh and Twin Frequency Operation (DFO) upgrades to the FAA’s Vast-Space Augmentation System, or WAAS, a space-based precision navigation system, that may improve safer air journey in help of the Nationwide Airspace System.
Beneath the WAAS DFO-2 contract, RI&S will ship extra trendy, and subsequently sustainable, processing, system safety, and community structure, whereas additionally including twin frequency service.
“There is no such thing as a margin for error throughout take-off, flight or touchdown,” stated Denis Donohue, president, Surveillance & Community Methods at RI&S. “Our modernization effort for WAAS will enhance system robustness throughout ionospheric occasions and guarantee safety-of-life necessities proceed to be met.”
WAAS is a Satellite tv for pc-based Augmentation System (SBAS), which gives GPS corrections for important navigation for the aviation group, first responders and different authorities businesses, making certain pilots can land safely in austere environments, regardless of climate challenges. It additionally gives corrections for SBAS-capable receivers in use throughout a various set of communities, together with agriculture, maritime and surveyance, amongst others.
Raytheon Applied sciences has been the prime growth contractor for WAAS since 1996. Since reaching preliminary operational functionality in 2003, Raytheon Applied sciences 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 Twin Frequency service. WAAS Twin Frequency service will allow elevated system accuracy, integrity, and availability when topic to ionospheric perturbations, together with photo voltaic storms.