Lockheed Martin offers to showcase latest navigation system

New Delhi: With Indian airspace getting crowded due to the boom in aviation sector, Lockheed Martin -- the US maker of the famous F-16 fighter jets -- has offered to operate its latest navigation system in Mumbai on experimental basis to showcase its technological prowess in the country.
"We are offering an adaptation of Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) system for implementation in Mumbai in the next six months," Judy Marks, President of Lockheed Martin's Transportation and Security Solution Division, told PTI in an interview here.
The satellite-based ATOP became operational only in March at Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center in Alaska. It provides safe separation of aircraft in oceans and other areas that are outside radar coverage or radio communication.
The system also detects conflicts between aircraft, provides satellite data link communication and information to air traffic controllers (ATCs), providing them the flexibility to provide direct fuel-efficient air tracks over long oceanic routes as well as large land mass.
29/04/07 PTI/The Hindu

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