Amsterdam Advanced Air Traffic Control System Up and Running.LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998--The Amsterdam Advanced Air Traffic Control (AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. ) System, developed and installed in the Schiphol International Airport, The Netherlands, by Raytheon Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :RTNA RTNA Ring Tone No Answer )(NYSE:RTNB RTNB Radio Television Nationale du Burundi (Africa) RTNB Return the Next Bit (computers) ), was commissioned and brought into operational service recently, the company announced today. "We are proud to have Europe's most advanced air traffic control system that will allow us to handle air traffic safely and efficiently well into the next century," said Wim Aardoom, program manager for The Netherlands Department of Civil Aviation. The AAA System forms the centerpiece of a multi-million-dollar upgrade to the national air traffic control infrastructure and facilities of The Netherlands and is based on Raytheon's AutoTrac automation system, which integrates radar and flight plan data and displays the information to air traffic controllers in a logical, easy-to-read manner.The system allows 1,000 flights to be handled simultaneously and displays information on33 high precision controller displays. The AAA System completed site acceptance in Amsterdam in March 1997 and has since been undergoing operational evaluation The test and analysis of a specific end item or system, insofar as practicable under Service operating conditions, in order to determine if quantity production is warranted considering: a. the increase in military effectiveness to be gained; and b. and testing, including testing with adjacent centers in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, other sites in The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. An extensive controller and maintenance staff training program has been conducted in parallel. The AAA System will provide service to all air traffic control operations in the Amsterdam Flight Information Region below 24,500 feet, including Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, which has the highest declared capacity in Europe. Schiphol is capable of handling 102 aircraft movements per hour and in 1997 handled over 31.6 million passengers and in excess of 1.2 million tons of cargo. In terms of international passenger traffic, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol ranks as Europe's fourth busiest airport and the fifth busiest in the world. The airport is one of Europe's fastest growing, handling an increase of 13.6 percent passengers between 1996 and 1997. The AAA System has been designed with enough spare capacity to accommodate such growth in the coming years. The flight data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a and simulation software Simulation software is based on the process of imitating a real phenomenon with a set of mathematical formulas. It is, essentially, a program that allows the user to observe an operation through simulation without actually running the program. for the AAA System were produced in collaboration with Indra-ATM, a joint Raytheon and Indra DTD (Document Type Definition) A language that describes the contents of an SGML document. The DTD is also used with XML, and the DTD definitions may be embedded within an XML document or in a separate file. company based in Madrid. The AAA System incorporates many interfaces and features to integrate air traffic control operations in the Amsterdam Flight Information Region with Europe's Air Traffic Management infrastructure. The Netherlands has achieved its goal to implement an intra-European harmonized har·mo·nize v. har·mo·nized, har·mo·niz·ing, har·mo·niz·es v.tr. 1. To bring or come into agreement or harmony. See Synonyms at agree. 2. Music To provide harmony for (a melody). and integrated air traffic control system. The AAA System also contains a separate multifunctional Simulation and Test System that can be used for training, research, and the evaluation of new operational procedures The detailed methods by which headquarters and units carry out their operational tasks. . Operational validation of new software releases is also conducted. The Simulation and Test System is capable of accurately simulating all aspects of the operational domain, including the generation of "live" data from many sources and operator commands from unmanned working positions. For more than 40 years, Raytheon has been at the forefront of air traffic control technology and is the established world leader in the design, development, installation and maintenance of air traffic control systems and equipment for civilian and military applications. Since 1990, AutoTrac systems have been delivered to Norway, India, Oman, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , China, and Lebanon. Over the next few months, AutoTrac systems will be commissioned at Langen in Germany, the new Gardermoen Airport in Norway, and in Mongolia. Other systems in Australia and the U.S. will be commissioned in the near future. Raytheon Company, based in Lexington, Mass., is a global technology leader with worldwide 1997 sales of more than $20 billion and more than 116,000 employees. The company provides state-of-the-art products and services in the areas of commercial and defense electronics, engineering and construction, and business and special mission aircraft. Raytheon has operations throughout the United States and services more than 80 countries around the world.
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