LONDON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems will provide surface movement radar and air traffic monitor systems for Britain's airports under a NATS contract.
The agreement is for systems for London Heathrow Airport's virtual contingency facility and instrument landing systems for regional airports around the country.
The VCF has been developed and put into service by NATS Services and is the world's first full safety certified remote airport contingency control room that can keep flights moving through Heathrow airport in the event of a serious problem at the airport's main control tower.
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems is providing the NOVA 9000 advanced-surface movement guidance and control system equipment and NOVA 9000 air traffic monitors. It will also supply NATS Services with the NORMARC 7000B ILS CAT III for Newcastle, Luton and Leeds Bradford airports.
"These contracts consolidate the strong position we have in the U.K. air traffic management market," said Eldar Hauge, managing director of Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems in Norway. "Our surveillance technology and control systems will enhance the operations by the VCF helping air traffic controllers to monitor and control flights even when they are unable to see aircraft departing, arriving or moving around the airfield, and our state-of-the-art instrument landing system will ensure safe and precise landings, even under the most difficult visibility conditions."
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, with facilities in Peterborough, England, and in Oslo and Horten, Norway, supplies communication, navigation and surveillance systems for air-space operations worldwide.
