RTX : introduces the Collins Airport Surface Awareness System
May 10, 2024 at 03:44 am IST
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RTX introduces the Collins Airport Surface Awareness System
New solution provides more efficient airfield operations and enhanced safety
May 09, 2024
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (May 07, 2024) - Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, introduces Collins' Airport Surface Awareness System for real-time tracking, monitoring, and recording of both aircraft and ground support equipment at airports.
The ability to track aircraft as well as ground support equipment provides a real-time, holistic view of airport operations that enables airports to enhance operational efficiency and help decrease ground incursions.
"Lack of situational awareness consistently contributes to critical issues at airports, including incidents on the airfield, inefficient aircraft turn management and improper use of ground support equipment," said Rakan Khaled, general manager of Airport Solutions at Collins Aerospace. "This system provides real-time data to airports to solve for those issues."
There are three components developed to improve airport operations by enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs, reducing fuel burn and helping avert airfield incidents:
Aircraft tracking with automatic dependent surveillance uses broadcast and radar feeds from both approaching aircraft and those on the ground for surface monitoring.
Asset tracking enables ground asset optimization through accurate real-time tracking of motorized and non-motorized equipment.
An interactive map application uses geofencing to allow operators to set up location- and speed restrictions for different assets, with alerts warning users to any operational violations.
The Airport Surface Awareness System is integrated with FlightAware Firehose and Foresight services to provide real-time flight and route information, including arrival time and runway and taxi-out predictions for an airport to accurately forecast aircraft turnarounds.
About Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in integrated and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Our 80,000 employees are dedicated to delivering future-focused technologies to advance sustainable and connected aviation, passenger safety and comfort, mission success, space exploration, and more.
About RTX
With more than 185,000 global employees, RTX pushes the limits of technology and science to redefine how we connect and protect our world. Through industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon - we are advancing aviation, engineering integrated defense systems and developing next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help global customers address their most critical challenges. The company, with 2023 sales of $69 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation) is among the world's leading aeronautics and defense groups. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by sector of activity as follows:
- aerial navigation systems (29.3%; Collins Aerospace): manufacturing of electrical, electronical and mechanical systems for aircrafts (compressors, airplane control, etc.), civil and military helicopters, etc.;
- aeronautics (29.2%; Pratt & Whitney): design and manufacturing of civil and military aircraft engines, gas turbines, rocket engines and propulsion systems;
- missile systems, and integrated air and anti-missile defense systems (21.1%; Raytheon Missiles & Defense): design and manufacturing of weapons systems, missiles, munitions, projectiles, radars systems, control and monitoring equipment, communication, information, detection and imaging systems, etc. ;
- aerospace systems (20.4%; Raytheon Intelligence & Space): production of radars, airborne sensors, tactical airborne communications systems, software-defined radio solutions, advanced tactical networking systems, cryptographic systems, real-time sensor networking systems, etc.
Net sales break down by source of revenue between sales of products (76.7%) and services (24.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (86.3%), Europe (5.8%), Asia/Pacific (2.7%), North Africa and Middle East (0.2%) and other (5%).
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