L-3 Communications and Thales Joint Venture ACSS Unveils New Surveillance Standard for Military Flight.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002 - MASS (Military Airborne Surveillance System) Adds Unrestricted Formation and Rendezvous Capability to TCAS 2000 - L-3 Communications (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LLL LLL abbr. left lower lobe (of the lung) ), announced today that Aviation Communications and Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint venture company of L-3 Communications and Thales, has unveiled a new military surveillance product that provides a higher degree of situational awareness for military flight operations. The MASS (Military Airborne Surveillance System) utilizes the same technology developed by ACSS for commercial aircraft, adding the unique military capabilities of rendezvous and formation station keeping, as well as ACSS' proprietary "Encroachment Alert" function. ACSS will hold a technical briefing on the MASS in the Media Centre's Hatfield Room at the Farnborough Air Show The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace business which is held biennially in England. The airshow is organised by Farnborough International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of British aerospace industry's body the Society , Farnborough, England, on July 24th at 9AM BST (convention) BST - British Summer Time. The name for daylight-saving time in the UK GMT time zone. . The MASS technology was developed as an enhancement to the TCAS 2000 (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (1) See adaptive cruise control. (2) A passenger car system that detects objects on the road that the driver may not be able to see. Using radar or infrared sensors, distant objects, such as a deer crossing the road at night or in a fog, are projected onto the ), adding unrestricted formation and rendezvous capability. The TCAS functionality of the MASS technology is identical to the TCAS 2000 collision avoidance system flying in over 5,000 commercial and military aircraft around the world. The system was successfully demonstrated in May using a Citation V business jet and a United States Air Force United States Air Force (USAF) Major component of the U.S. military organization, with primary responsibility for air warfare, air defense, and military space research. It also provides air services in coordination with the other military branches. U.S. Boeing 707 simulating an actual formation flight. During formation flight, the system works with the Mode S-IFF (identification friend or foe The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. ) data link transponder to identify and distinguish between cooperative member and non-member aircraft. It supports unrestricted formation and rendezvous operations and can be installed on aircraft equipped with the ACSS TCAS 2000 and a Mode S-IFF transponder with a simple software upgrade. The MASS complies with ATC guidelines to work in both military and civil airspace, providing TCAS/ACAS II operations during non-military flights. "This is the next step in military airborne surveillance in the CNS/ATM CNS/ATM Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management) infrastructure," said Rich Baldwin, ACSS vice president of Military Programs. "ACSS is proud to bring this new level of situational awareness to military flight operations." ACSS (Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems), an L-3 Communications and Thales company, is a leader in safety avionics systems. ACSS products include the TCAS 2000 and TCAS 1500 traffic alert and collision avoidance systems, a family of Mode S transponders, the T2CAS, a combined traffic and terrain collision avoidance system, and MASS, an enhanced TCAS system for military operations. More than 8,000 units of ACSS's TCAS products are operating in commercial, corporate and military aircraft. To learn more about ACSS, please visit the company's web site at www.L-com.com/acss. Headquartered in Velizy (France), Thales Avionics, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Thales, is the European leader and world-renowned partner in avionics and cabin electronics and a world leader in professional electronics for civil and defense markets. To learn more about Thales Avionics, please visit the company's web site at www.thales-avionics.com. 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