SRA Selected by FAA for Low Cost Ground Surveillance Program

This builds on SRAs long standing relationship with the FAA and leverages the companys domain expertise in surveillance technology. The multiple-award contract has a ceiling value of more than $20 million over five years. One of the FAAs top priorities is to reduce the risk of runway incursions in the NAS while maximizing operational efficiency and ensuring airport capacity. The LCGS program is one of several initiatives aimed at reducing the number and severity of incidents at close to 500 U.S. towered airports where current airport surface detection equipment (i.e. ASDE-3 and ASDE-X) is too expensive to deploy. LCGS would provide an added layer of safety by giving air traffic controllers basic ground surveillance for aircraft and vehicles operating on runways and adjacent taxiways. LCGS would also provide a foundational platform for future runway safety applications and systems. The solution that SRA will deliver to the FAA is derived from a mature commercial off-the-shelf advanced surface movement guidance and control system (COTS A-SMGCS) that is currently operational at large international airports, such as Frankfurt and Munich, which typically rank in the top 20 world airports by number of aircraft movements, said SRA President and CEO Stan Sloane. We are committed to supporting the FAAs mission of reducing the risk of runway incursions in the U.S. by delivering a highly advanced, yet cost-effective solution for airports in the national airspace system. SRAs LCGS solution, which has an intuitive and configurable ATC computer-human interface (CHI), is easily scalable and adaptable to accommodate varying airport sizes and runway configurations in a range of visibility and weather conditions. SRAs solution provides the FAA and airport authorities with a platform that can cost-effectively expand to meet their future requirements, such as the need to integrate ADS-B information, airfield lighting control systems, traffic information systembroadcast (TIS-B) and multiltateration surveillance technologies. Deploying an LCGS solution to multiple, unique airports in a timely manner, at an affordable cost and with low risk, requires an experienced systems integration team that can combine proven COTS components to meet the FAAs critical program requirements and has also delivered an operationally proven integrated system at the most complex airports, said Bernard Asare, SRAs director for the Americas region. SRA has the skills and experience. With the expertise to understand available airport surveillance technologies, we proposed an LCGS solution consisting of HITTs A3000 ATC display and surveillance data fusion system integrated with Termas SCANTER X-Band surface movement radar (SMR).