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Here is a list of newer Air Traffic Control systems. I hope this is
helpful. The state of the art for TRACONs and RAPCONS is STARS (Standalone TRACON Automation Replacement System). The prime contractor for the STARS program is Raytheon, and it is now being deployed to major TRACONS around the country. (It is already online at the new Boston TRACON and major airports like Philadelphia, etc). This program has been much delayed and reworked, after numerous problems, such as ignoring controllers human interface concerns (early data block windows covered up radar information behind them) and controllers didn't like the standard QWERTY keyboards. (too easy to learn?) for some reason. 10 years later, this is now the TRACON system of the future. ARTCCs have been upgraded as well. (Acronym?) I believe the prime contractor is/was Lockheed Martin and it used a lot of Sun Microsystems hardware. Even before the upgrades were underway, the ASD or 'Ollie" screen came about just to replace the aging and failing green screens from ARTS. The ASD was kind of a bootleg program that was more grassroutes than officially sanctioned. . DSR - (Display System Replacment) - replaces old ARTCC displays with new Sony high resolution color displays. Superimposes NexRad weather on displays, modern strip printers, etc. . ATOP - (advanced technologies and oceanic procedures) Automates manual oceanic airspace practices. Deployed at oceanic ARTCCs, such as New York, Boston, Anchorage, Oakland. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor and calls it Ocean 21 . HOCSR (Host and Oceanic Computer System Replacement). The host computers (at the FAA command center across the street from Dulles airport in Herndon) have had an upgrade program too, it is managed by Lockheed Martin: ASDE-X (Airport Surface Detection Equipment - the X is the latest version) is the next generation ground radar, used in airports with issues with taxiing (usually in bad visibility). At these airports, pilots are asked to leave Mode C on when on the ground. KPVD was one of the first airports to get this, as a result of the near disaster when a US Airways flight was repeatedly and angrily cleared for takeoff by a controller with an attitude (pilot rejected) after a United jet got lost in fog and had reentered the runway. (D-BRITE ) FAA Digital Brite Radar Indicator Tower Equipment Program. Newer version of BRITE screens, which provide satellite towers with a basic radar screen for limited use. I believe this is going away. Small Tower Radar Display (Lockheed Martin) For some airports that didn't have D-BRITE. STARS LITE (STARS Local Integrated Tower Equipment) Radar screens for satellite towers. ARTS IE Newer system for VFR towers that aren't connected to a TRACON. Receive radar information from centers, using ARSR or ASR Radar data. TARDIS (Terminal Automated Radar Display and Information System) This is an interesting one. A sort of bootleg cheaper radar display for satellite towers. It hasn't been certified and there are no plans to do so. The FAA brass wasn't too pleased that TARDIS was spreading (too cheap, quick to be implemented, and it worked!), but influential congress people were demanding that it be deployed towers that didn't have funds to get another radar display. Should be replaced by STARS LITE, which is certified. |
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ARTCCs have been upgraded as well. (Acronym?)
Air Route Traffic Control Centers Jose -- There are more ways to skin a cat than there are cats. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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![]() Jose wrote: ARTCCs have been upgraded as well. (Acronym?) Air Route Traffic Control Centers Heh. I meant for the upgrades, not for ARTCC itself. I think I have that one down ![]() modernization, and being government you need a lot of acronyms to handle that. |
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