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July 2, 2009 Raytheon Wins NextGen Research
NASA has selected a team led by Raytheon to develop enhancements to the system-wide modeling and simulation capability in the Airspace Concepts Evaluation System, or ACES. The plug and play models will help NASA, the FAA and other researchers better understand the tools and concepts needed to support the impacts of NextGen on the National Airspace System. Simulations will increase efficiency by evaluating and analyzing new concepts for future air traffic management operations. ACES is NASA's real-time computer simulation tool that analyzes local, regional and nationwide factors that contribute to the dynamics of aircraft operations from gate departures and flight paths to landings and gate arrivals. The result is a flexible environment for researchers to identify and test new NextGen air traffic management concepts. The total contract value of this competitively bid, cost-plus-fixed-fee award is $29.1 million.
Additional Certification for ALERTS
Appareo Systems has received an additional Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the ALERTS Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) system. Transport Canada has granted the STC for the Eurocopter AS350 and has granted earlier STC’s for Bell 206 and 407 aircraft. ALERTS has previously been granted STCs for the same aircraft types in the U.S. by the FAA. ALERTS – Aircraft Logging and Event Recording for Training and Safety – is a comprehensive FOQA and Flight Data Management (FDM) system designed for light and legacy aircraft where more traditional flight data recorders are too large and costly to be viable choices. As a comprehensive system, ALERTS makes an effective FOQA/FDM program available to operators of any size. The STC is a document that is granted by Transport Canada when the applicant has received approval to modify an aircraft from its original design. The STC applies to the airborne portion of the ALERTS System, the GAU 2000. The GAU 2000 is a lightweight unit that gathers flight data with an integrated GPS and a sophisticated inertial sensing suite. Requiring only aircraft power and ground and weighing roughly two pounds, the GAU 2000 can be mounted in nearly any type of aircraft. The gathered flight data is recorded to an SD memory card and an internal crash hardened memory and is later transferred to the software portion of ALERTS, which automatically analyzes the data for any events that are outside of standard operating procedures. These events are then forwarded to the system administrator for further action. Additionally, all recorded flight data is stored in a database that can generate detailed reports on any aspect of the fleet’s performance, further improving safety, pilot training and efficiency.
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