tornado
20-06-2008, 10:38
The US Federal Aviation Administration has begun operational flight testing of three ITT-provided automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations in the Miami area, the first working segment of the government’s next generation nationwide surveillance system outside of remote parts of Alaska. ITT won a $1.8 billion contract from the FAA in August 2007 to deploy the ground infrastructure for ADS-B, a network that will ultimately include 794 ground stations when complete in 2013. The limited service area around Miami is a prelude to a fully operational southern Florida network planned
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