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The AT3 system is an advanced, cost-effective
solution to the challenges facing the ATM community
in the 21st Century — traffic growth outpacing
revenue growth and the drive to increase capacity
and productivity in a cost conscious environment.
The AT3 system, with its modern open architecture
design and high performance characteristics, is
fully adaptable and scalable to any ATM environment,
ranging from a simple tower automation application
to a fully integrated national multi-center system.
Raytheon’s next generation ATM automation system
provides a high performance, cost-effective solution
for India’s rapidly growing air traffic demands.
The system contains the most advanced surveillance
and flight data processing systems available today.
We are extremely pleased that our partnership
with AAI will provide India with the most modern
ATM system in the world.
Raytheon’s AT3 system has the features, functions
and performance which air navigation service providers
require from advanced air traffic management systems.
Functions include multi-sensor tracking, safety
nets, automatic dependent surveillance/controller
pilot data link (ADS/CPDLC), flight data and clearance
processing, monitoring aids (MONA), medium term
conflict detection (MTCD), system supported coordination
(SYSCO), “stripless” human machine interface (HMI)
and much more. The system can support the highest
traffic densities experienced in the world’s busiest
Area Control Centers.
GAGAN — THE WORLD’S MOST
ADVANCED SATELLITE-BASED AIR NAVIGATION SYSTEM
Raytheon is also building the ground stations
for the GPS-Aided Geosynchronous Augmented Navigation
(GAGAN) System, which will provide satellite-based
navigation for civil aviation over Indian airspace
and adjoining areas in South and East Asia. The
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and
AAI are providing the space segment and additional
ground equipment, as well as participating in
the integration and operating the system.
“GAGAN will be the world’s most advanced air
navigation system and further reinforces India’s
leadership in the forefront of air navigation,”
said Andy Zogg, Raytheon Network Centric Systems
vice president of Business Development. “It will
greatly improve safety, reduce congestion and
enhance communications to meet India’s growing
air traffic management needs. The GAGAN solution
addresses the four essential elements of safe
air navigation: accuracy, integrity, availability
and continuity.”
GAGAN is on schedule to go operational in 2013.
Equipment has been installed and the system now
includes seven new reference station sites with
the existing eight Technology Demonstration System
reference station sites, which have been upgraded.
Raytheon and ISRO have completed the development
of algorithms to provide satellite-based navigation
service over the Indian Flight Information Region,
in order to deliver a comprehensive solution for
the Indian climate to ISRO and AAI. After more
than two years of intensive analysis and development,
the joint Raytheon/ISRO GAGAN algorithm team was
able to achieve technical consensus. Technical
consensus brings India one step closer to fielding
the GAGAN system and achieving their performance
based navigation goals.
Raytheon is the first company that has delivered
multiple, satellite-based augmentation systems
that have been certified for safety-of-flight
operations. Raytheon developed the FAA’s Wide
Area Augmentation System and was engaged in the
Japan Civil Aviation Bureau’s Multi-Function Transport
Satellite Augmentation System.
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