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Italian airport systems firm finds growth potential in Asia
Asia is a prime potential market for Selex Systemi Integrati’s turnkey capability in air defense systems, air traffic management and airport communications

Asia is a prime potential market for Selex Systemi Integrati’s turnkey capability in air defense systems, air traffic management and airport communications systems. The Italian group, which set up shop in Singapore in 1972, most recently supplied mobile air traffic control systems to the Singapore Air Force and has established a terminal maneuvering area system for the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) at Changi Airport. Now, it is responding to a CAAS tender for primary L-band and mode-S secondary radars.

Selex has a long pedigree as a radar provider, but in the early 1990s it took a big step forward when it built the new air traffic control center at Milan’s Malpensa Airport. The facility, which comprises some 100 controller consoles and up to 20 radars, controls the whole of Italy’s upper airspace as well as the lower space in the country’s central region.