Accipiter Radar Technologies is Awarded Further Contract Under FAA Program to Deliver and Install Avian Radar Networks to Major US Airports
07 January 2008 10:09
In the summer of 2006 Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc (ARTI) was selected under a program run by the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Center of Excellence for Airport Technology (CEAT) to deliver and install two Accipiter® radars at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Following a very successful first year of evaluation, this program has been expanded and ARTI has been awarded a contract for the supply of additional Avian Radar Systems.
The Accipiter Netmaster system will be installed in some of the USA's busiest airports with known bird strike problems, including New York's JFK and Chicago O'Hare International which itself experienced a widely publicized bird strike in March 2007.
Air strikes cost in excess of US$1 billion annually in damage to aircraft and interruptions of air operations worldwide. More importantly, every air strike also has the potential of loss of life. ARTI is able to offer a high-performance Avian Radar solution that addresses this urgent aviation safety issue of Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH).
Prior to the introduction of affordable avian radars, airport wildlife control staff lacked sufficient awareness of bird movements to maximize the safety objective of keeping birds and planes separated. Accipiter® Avian Radars can reliably track individual birds or flocks, present informative displays and provide automated alerts to its users. It is also provides continuous 24/7 recording of bird movement data for use in risk analysis and safety planning. Radar information can be routed over standard networks to users anywhere including to mobile vehicles equipped with wireless network access.
These new installations follow recent extensive testing of Accipiter® at the CEAT in Illinois, and at the FAA Training and Test facility in Oklahoma City.
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