Raytheon's Amsterdam Advanced Air Traffic Control System passes operational system factory acceptance test.BEDFORD Bedford, town, England Bedford, town (1991 pop. 75,632), county seat of Bedfordshire, central England, on the Ouse River. It is an important industrial center; diesel engines, pumps, turbines, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, and transistors , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 1996--Raytheon Electronic Systems (RES) has announced the successful completion of the factory acceptance test of the operational system of the Amsterdam Advanced Air Traffic Control (ATC ATC Air Traffic Control ATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered ) system. This test marks a major milestone towards the Fall 1996 installation of Amsterdam's Advanced ATC in its new building at Schiphol East. The new system will provide ATC enroute services for the whole of the Dutch flight information region, approach control at Schiphol Airport, and flight data services of the Rotterdam Air Traffic Control tower. The Dutch Air Traffic Control Organization Luchtverkeersbeveiliging (LVB LVB Ludwig Van Beethoven (classical composer) LVB Luchtverkeersbeveiliging LVB Las Vegas Bay (Lake Mead, NV) LVB Livramento, Brazil (Airport Coode) LVB Large Vehicle Bomb ) expects to begin operational service of the new system in the spring of 1998. The Amsterdam Advanced ATC system consists of two major systems: the operational system and the simulation and test system. In addition to standard ATC functions, the new system will provide Dutch air traffic controllers with advanced ATC functionality, such as area conflict detection and planning conflict detection. Amsterdam's advanced ATC system is one of the world's first systems to successfully incorporate "rules" technology into its software to control display presentations and flight data progress management. This technology, which was specified by the LVB, allows air traffic controllers to have greater flexibility to make upgrades to their automatic procedures software without requiring expensive and time-consuming software engineering changes. The system began development in January 1993 and is the centerpiece of the LVB's $256 million overall upgrade of its air traffic control services. During the three and a half year program, Raytheon and team member Indra of Spain worked closely with the Dutch Air Traffic Control Organization Luchtverkeersbeveiliging (LVB) to maintain schedule requirements. For more than two years, LVB engineers have been an integral part of the specification and development team in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The LVB has sent experienced air traffic controllers and systems engineers to the United States during the program to gain hands-on experience with the new system as it was developed. This close cooperation between LVB and Raytheon has also led to an early delivery of a mini-system in February 1996, which was installed in the existing air traffic control facility at Schiphol Airport. The mini-system has enabled the LVB controllers and engineers to understand the system's functionality early in its development by providing advanced integration with live data from radar, weather, and direction finder direction finder, electronic device used to determine the position of a ship or aircraft. In a simple direction finder a radio receiver is equipped with a revolving directional antenna. systems in Schiphol. The Amsterdam program is one of Raytheon's long line of air traffic control successes. Raytheon's state-of-the-art ATC systems and radars have been chosen by numerous countries around the globe, including Norway, The Netherlands, India, Oman, The People's Republic People's Republic n. A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party. of China, 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. , Germany, Switzerland, Jamaica, Brazil, and Australia. Raytheon is also providing display systems for the next generation FAA systems, and is currently installing 47 Terminal Doppler Doppler /Dop·pler/ (dop´ler) see under ultrasonography. color Doppler color flow Doppler imaging. Weather Radar systems in major airports and FAA Technical Centers across the United States. Raytheon Company, headquartered in Lexington, Mass., is a $12 billion international, high technology company which operates in four businesses: commercial and defense electronics, engineering and construction, aircraft, and major appliances A major appliance is usually defined as a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, food preservation, or cleaning, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting. . CONTACT: Raytheon, Bedford Gail Hayes, 617/860-2410 Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. http://www.raytheon.com |
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