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Lockheed Martin's Automated Radar Terminal System (ARTS) Color Display Completes FAA Acceptance One Month Early
ROCKVILLE, Md., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin announced today
that the new ARTS Color Display (ACD) for terminal air traffic control
completed FAA acceptance one month ahead of schedule, bringing it closer to
the first operational deployment at the New York Terminal Radar Approach
Control (TRACON) this summer.
During rigorous testing at the FAA's William J. Hughes Technical Center,
the ACD demonstrated compliance with all requirements in both the ARTS IIIE
and ARTS IIIA configurations. The ACD program now moves into the Operational
Test and Evaluation (OT&E) phase at the New York TRACON where it will be
teamed with Lockheed Martin's state-of-the-art ARTS IIIE terminal automation
system. OT&E is the FAA's test of operational readiness prior to deployment.
Commenting on the FAA's acceptance, Don Antonucci, president of Lockheed
Martin Air Traffic Management, said, "During formal testing, the ACD was put
through its paces. It performed as advertised and its speed and capabilities
are truly outstanding, demonstrating the unmatched capabilities of the ACD and
ARTS IIIE systems. The introduction of color provides controllers with
significant improvement of recognition of weather, track data, and most
importantly, safety alerts. We at Lockheed Martin take particular pride in
successfully meeting our commitments to the FAA in less than 10 months and
completing acceptance one month ahead of schedule."
The ACD is a state-of-the-art air traffic control workstation
incorporating commercial, open-systems technology. Under a $36.9 million
contract awarded in May 1999, Lockheed Martin is upgrading 10-15 year old
monochrome display technology at the FAA's highest density TRACONs with the
ACD units. Upon successful completion of the OT&E, the new workstations,
which include Motorola processors, Barco Chromatics graphics controllers and
Sony 20x20 high resolution color monitors, are scheduled to be operational at
New York, Washington National, and Dallas/Fort Worth this summer and at the
new Atlanta TRACON when it is commissioned later this year.
In related news, Lockheed Martin also announced that the FAA has exercised
a $3.3 million option to procure an additional 43 ACD workstations for the new
Potomac Consolidated TRACON.
The first operational site to receive the ACD workstations, the New York
TRACON and its ARTS IIIE system services one of the most complex airspaces in
the world, with 56 operational displays, 5 sensors, and an average of 6,500
flights a day. Air traffic control is divided among five areas of operation,
with three major airports, LaGuardia, Kennedy, and Newark, within 17 miles of
each other. The airspace encompasses portions of four states -- New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania -- as well as the Atlantic Ocean.
A leader in airspace management solutions, Lockheed Martin Air Traffic
Management customers include the FAA and international civil aviation
authorities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Korea and the People's Republic of
China. Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management employs approximately 1,300
people at major facilities in Rockville, Maryland, Atlantic City, New Jersey,
Eagan, Minnesota, and Southampton, England, and is a unit of Lockheed Martin
Corporation.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global
enterprise principally engaged in the research, design, development,
manufacture and integration of advanced-technology systems, products and
services. The Corporation's core businesses are systems integration, space,
aeronautics, and technology services.
SOURCE Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management
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