Thu, Oct 27, 2016
Verocel To Provide Up To 50 Computers Under $2.8 Million Deal
The FAA has awarded a $2.8 million contract to Vorcel to deliver up to fifty (50) next-generation safety computers for deployment in the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS).
Verocel was awarded the contract to design, construct and develop the certification evidence for the safety computers, including infrastructure software, against the safety computer item specification in 2012. Verocel has teamed with Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions and Atrenne Computing Solutions to provide the commercial off-the-shelf hardware components that comprise the hardware platform for the WAAS safety computer.
WAAS is an air navigation aid designed to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS), with the goal of improving GPS accuracy, integrity, and availability and is a key component of the FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation (NEXTGEN) system. As of September 2016, there are 3,722 Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV) approach procedures serving 1812 airports, which offer all-weather, precision guidance information to participating aircraft. Over 1000 of these airports are non-instrument landing system airports, meaning that without WAAS, these airports would have no precision guidance capabilities.
"Verocel is proud to be a key part of the WAAS safety computer development and production,” said George Romanski, president of Verocel. "This production win validates our customer’s trust in our ability not only to design and verify safety-critical software and hardware but also to be a trusted lifecycle supplier".
“We are very excited to be able to contribute with Verocel to the production of this critical FAA system upgrade,” said Lynn Bamford, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions division. “Our rugged open architecture VME-183 single board computer modules help to lower the cost of ownership for the WAAS system through the use of COTS technology.”
(Image provided with Verocel news release)
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