The FAA’s Golden GPS Ring Captured by ITT Corporation

The initial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) $207 million, three-year contract for the development and deployment of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system has been awarded to ITT Corporation. This program is tasked with improving the safety and efficiency of the growing demands of air transportation. ITT is going to be responsible for the overall system integration and engineering. There are also options for system operation and maintenance after deployment through September of 2025. If all of the options are exercised, the contract value could be $1.86 billion.




The President of ITT Defense stated, "The ITT Team is proud to have been selected by the FAA as its partner in the establishment of this technology that will form the basis for the transformation of the air transportation system under the FAA’s NextGen vision. ITT and its premier team of industry partners are committed to working with the FAA to ensure this NextGen cornerstone program delivers its full potential for enhanced National Airspace System safety, efficiency and capacity."



Partners include: AT&T, Aerospace Engineering, Aviation Communications and Surveillance Systems (ACSS), Comsearch, MCS of Tampa, NCR Corporation, Pragmatics, PriceWaterhouseCooopers, SAIC, Sandia Aerospace, Sunhillo, Thales North America, Washington Consulting Group and WSI.



The system benefits include more accurate and more rapidly updated positioning data through the use of GPS to determine the actual position of aircraft; a more cost effective surveillance network; a possible future data link to deliver safety information to aircraft; future air-to-air exchange of position data for improved situational awareness for pilots—White Plains, New York