The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has chosen Raytheon Company to aid the process of enhancing Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) functionality while reducing operational costs.
STARS is used by air traffic controllers nationwide to provide safe and efficient aircraft spacing and sequencing guidance for more than 40,000 departing and arriving aircraft at more than 600 civilian and military airports.
“We want air traffic controllers to have the best tools available to manage the increasingly complex airspace around our airports,” Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, said.
“In partnership with the FAA, our STARS program has been deployed at 11 of the largest Terminal Radar Approach Control facilities that control 80 percent of U.S. air traffic,” Matt Gilligan, vice president of Raytheon IIS, said.
Raytheon has installed the advanced STARS systems at FAA facilities in New York, Dallas / Fort Worth, Denver, northern and southern California, St. Louis, Louisville, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.
Raytheon will continue to work with the FAA’s NextGen modernization initiative as a means of achieving history, creating a single national software and hardware baseline across the country by the middle of 2020.
Raytheon Company officials said the firm specializes in defense, civil government, and cybersecurity solutions.