Raytheon’s funding of the deployment of satellite-based surveillance at the largest terminal ATC facilities in the U.S. is a good example of the type of public/private partnership needed to advance the country’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), according to the U.S. group. Andy Zogg, vice president of Raytheon’s airspace management and homeland security business area, said the company’s initial funding to deploy automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) capability at 11 terminal radar approach control (Tracon) facilities “probably took 18 months” out of the program schedule.
Under the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s terminal automation modernization and replacment (TAMR) Phase 3 program, the so-called IIIE Tracons are being upgraded from 2013 to 2015 with Raytheon’s standard terminal automation replacement system (STARS), which will be able to receive and display ADS-B position reports from aircraft. The Dallas Ft. Worth Tracon will be the first to integrate ADS-B.
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