The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new 10-year contract to Raytheon Intelligence & Space that will provide a technical refresh for the Wide-Area Augmentation System (WAAS)—a space-based ...

Raytheon Technologies Corp.’s RTX business segment, Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S), recently won a contract to provide technical refresh and Dual Frequency Operation (DFO) upgrades to the FAA's ...

Remember the Microwave Landing System (MLS)? Back in the 1980s, the FAA touted MLS as the successor to the venerable ILS, or instrument landing system, then in widespread use. Well, some 20 years ...

WAAS significantly enhances GPS precision, offering stable vertical guidance for approaches (LPV), which improves safety and performance compared to traditional systems. Upgrading to WAAS can be a ...

The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) monitors and provides corrections and integrity information for GPS signals over North America to enable pilots to fly using augmented GPS data for safety of ...

The Eutelsat 117 West B satellite, also called SatMex 9, is one of three commercial geostationary satellites that constitute the space segment of WAAS. Credit: FAA Concept Fifty years since the ...

RAYTHEON has delivered upgraded Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) GEO 6 navigation payload to the FAA, which is carried on the SES-15 satellite. Steve Costley is responsible for the overall ...

RI&S to upgrade FAA's space-based precision navigation system to support safer air travel MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon (RTX) Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon ...

Avionics manufacturer Rockwell Collins is introducing a GPS receiver with wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) capability to allow business aircraft operators to take advantage of the growing number ...

Thirty years ago, NAVSYS was deep into the development of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). I had the honor of being the chair of the RTCA SC-159 Integrity Working Group, which developed the ...

Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has been awarded a competitive indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a ...

Garmin International has received the first certification of a GPS wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) receiver providing instrument landing system (ILS) -like precision approach capability. The ...