The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new 10-year contract to Raytheon Intelligence & Space that will provide a technical refresh for the Wide-Area Augmentation System (WAAS)—a space-based ...

Once the subject of criticism, WAAS is on the majority of general aviation aircraft The FAA now has nearly 5,000 WAAS LPV and LP approaches. (Image: The FAA) ...

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Raytheon Technologies Corp.’s RTX business segment, Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S), recently won a contract to provide technical refresh and Dual Frequency Operation (DFO) upgrades to the FAA's ...

Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has been awarded a competitive indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a ...

FAA certified the first cockpit navigation system that includes a wide area augmentation system (WAAS), weeks before the agency makes the WAAS signal operational. The CNX80 avionics suite, ...

originators of the first GPS handheld, announced today its first shipment of upgraded GPS receivers offering accuracy of better than three meters. Selected Magellan handhelds now feature Wide Area ...

The 10-year FAA WAAS contract with Raytheon Intelligence & Space has a total value of $375 million. WAAS delivers a safety-of-life navigation aid for pilots, especially in austere environments such as ...

UPS Aviation Technologies plans to build "the world's first GPS navigation receiver capable of using existing signals from the FAA's wide area augmentation system (WAAS) to enable precision instrument ...

A headline in Loudoun Extra March 16 referred incorrectly to a new landing system at Leesburg Executive Airport . The wide area augmentation system will not replace the airport's current navigational ...