RAYTHEON BIDS TO SUPPLY EQUIPMENT TO ISRO, AAI

Bangalore

US defence contractor, Raytheon Co., has bid to supply equipment for the final phase of India’s satellite based navigation system for aiding civil aviation, being built by Indian Space Research Organisation, or Isro, and Airports Authority of India (AAI).

Isro and AAI, to aid civil aviation traffic movement across the country, are jointly building the Global positioning satellite-aided geosynchronous augmented navigation system or Gagan.

Raytheon has tied up with local firms Accord Software and Systems, Pvt. Ltd and Elcome Technologies Pvt. Ltd for designing global positioning system devices and logistical and on-site support, and Naverus Inc., of Kent, Washington, for performance-based navigation route design, procedure flight validation and other related services. Raytheon had supplied radars in the initial test phase of the Gagan programme.