GILFILLAN SELECTED FOR RADAR CONTRACT.Byline: Gregory J. Wilcox Staff Writer VAN NUYS - The Gilfillan Radar Group of White Plains, N.Y.-based ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) Industries Inc. has received a government mobile radar systems contract that could be worth more than $40 million, the company said Friday. The Van Nuys-based unit will make Mobile Approach Control System Precision Approach Radars Precision approach radar (PAR) is a type of radar guidance system designed to provide lateral and vertical guidance to an aircraft pilot for landing up to the missed approach point. for the U.S. Air Force. This is a subsystem A unit or device that is part of a larger system. For example, a disk subsystem is a part of a computer system. A bus is a part of the computer. A subsystem usually refers to hardware, but it may be used to describe software. to an $80 million Air Force program the company began in late 2000. The portable radar system can be flown to field locations aboard a C-130 aircraft. The system gives pilots a precision approach landing guidance up to 20 miles from an airfield as well as communication with other radar units. Evelyn Teichner, a Gilfillan spokeswoman, said this is a sizable siz·a·ble also size·a·ble adj. Of considerable size; fairly large. siz  a·ble·ness n. contract for the company.
``It is a big and very important contract because it opens the door for other contracts,'' she said. The radar's compact design makes for rapid deployment and operation in extreme physical environments. The Air Force's Air Combat Command and the Air National Guard will use the system to support the homeland defense missions and provide air traffic control services anywhere in the world on short notice. The radar devices will be compatible with Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control equipment. |
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