Wed, Apr 21, 2004
WSI To Provide Continuous Weather Data
The Federal Aviation
Authority (FAA), through MITRE Corporation, has signed a deal with
WSI to provide weather information for use in the FAA's East Coast
Evaluation of the Automatic Dependant Surveillance - Broadcast
(ADS-B) system. The ADS-B system provides aircraft position reports
and weather data to aircraft and ground stations equipped with a
Universal Access Transceiver (UAT).
One hundred aircraft are planned to participate in the
evaluation that will be conducted in the area of up to fourteen
broadcast stations situated along the Mid-Atlantic to Southeastern
coast of the United States. The FAA's evaluation period of the
system has been designated to run through the end of December 2004.
WSI is the only commercial provider of in-flight information to
have been selected for the trial.
"The award of the ADS-B
contract to WSI is a testament to our commitment to innovation and
quality weather information services," commented Lynne Wilson,
Executive Vice President of WSI's Aviation and Marine Business
Group.
WSI has cooperated with the government on many aviation safety
and weather service research and development projects over the
years. The company has contracts with the Volpe National
Transportation Systems Center, MITRE Center for Advanced Aviation
Systems Development, MIT Lincoln Labs, FAA Technical Center, NOAA
Forecast Systems Lab, and NASA. "We have supported projects such as
the Lincoln Labs' Mode S Datalink for weather product transmission,
NASA's Aviation Weather Information Network (AWIN), and ATC
metering tools with MITRE CAASD," continued Wilson. "This latest
R&D effort is an integral part of our efforts to deliver
superior services to the Commercial, General and Governmental
segments of the Aviation Industry."
Initially, WSI will provide WSI NOWrad, and textual reports to
the ADS- B East Coast system. The inclusion of additional specific
weather products in the ADS-B system will be dependent upon the
evaluation of the FAA.
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