ATC
ITT Wins Nexcom Contract
The FAA has awarded an initial $20.5 million contract to ITT Industries aerospace/communications division to provide the agency with multimode VHF digital

The FAA has awarded an initial $20.5 million contract to ITT Industries aerospace/communications division to provide the agency with multimode VHF digital air-to-ground radios as part of its next-generation air/ground communications system (Nexcom). If all options are exercised, it could be worth as much as $580 million.

According to the FAA, the first building block of Nexcom will replace air traffic controllers’ aging analog radios with digital radios in phases. When completed, the entirely digital system will improve the agency’s ability to meet expanding ATC communication demands. ITT Industries, of Fort Wayne, Ind., is partnered with Park Air Systems of the UK, Federal Data Corp. of Bethesda, Md., and Operational Technologies Services of Vienna, Va.

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