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Thu, Jul 17, 2003

ATNAVICS Will Get 'em Home

News of Raytheon's Option for U.S. Army Tactical Air Traffic Control Systems

Raytheon Company has a $16.8 million production option to a previously-awarded U.S. Army Communications - Electronics Command (CECOM) contract for the production of AN/TPN-31 Air Traffic Navigation, Integration and Coordination Systems (ATNAVICS) and AN/FPN-67 Fixed Base Precision Approach Radar (FBPAR) systems.

Deployable by C-130

 ATNAVICS is the only radar ground controlled approach system mounted on tactical mobile vehicles that is transportable in a C-130 aircraft. It provides a rapid air traffic control response for both tactical operations and civil disasters.

A lot of work for those HumVees...

ATNAVICS is a completely self-contained system, mounted on two High Mobility, Multi-purpose, Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs), which provides rapid response air traffic control services at Army airfields and tactical landing sites. The system is comprised of an S-band air surveillance radar, L-band secondary surveillance radar/identification friend or foe, an X-band precision approach radar, and Raytheon's AutoTrac air traffic management system. These systems provide full surveillance to 25 nautical miles and precision approach coverage to 10 nautical miles in all weather conditions.

"Thoroughly tested in the tactical air traffic environment, the ATNAVICS will provide the Army unprecedented levels of performance, safety and reliability well into the 21st century," said Lt. Col. Greg Oelberg, product manager of U.S. Army Air Traffic Control systems.

"A true force multiplier, the ATNAVICS and FBPAR systems provide for expeditious air traffic management by enabling continuous, unimpeded and integrated air traffic services during combined operations within the Army Tactical Airspace Command and Control System and National Airspace System."

"Raytheon's ATNAVICS system will provide the Army with an immediate forward deployed tactical air traffic control capability," said Robert Eckel, vice president of Raytheon's Air Traffic Management Systems business. "This unprecedented mobilized capability for air traffic management will allow for faster deployment, anywhere, anytime."

The AN/TPN-31 is a tactical system, and the AN/FPN-67 is a fixed-base system.

FMI: www.raytheon.com

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