No audio available for this content. WAAS makes airports without ground-based navigation available to pilots. (Photo: Raytheon) WAAS monitors and evaluates all GPS signals over North America to enable ...

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 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has targeted September 2003 as the first stop in its evolution to satellite navigation, but the agency's acquisition and research chief said Tuesday that it's time ...

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 ...

The Eutelsat 117 West B satellite, also called SatMex 9, is one of three commercial geostationary satellites that constitute the space segment of WAAS. Credit: FAA Concept Fifty years since the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Navigation system promises to improve approach guidance down to as low as 250ft UPS Aviation Technologies (UPSAT) has received the first certification for a wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) GPS ...