Along with making the proper Position Grid, Variation and Datum, settings in your Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, you cannot get the best accuracy unless you also make the proper Wide Area ...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting 5 Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) navigation payload, developed by Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services business, ...

Raytheon Company has launched its GEO 6 satellite payload into orbit for its 12-year mission. It is the latest payload to support the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Wide Area Augmentation ...

WACO, Texas, March 15 /PRNewswire/ — FreeFlight Systems, a global provider of high quality critical avionics, announced their 1203 WAAS GPS receiver has been selected by the FAA as part of the ...

Garmin International has received the first certification of a GPS wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) receiver providing instrument landing system (ILS) -like precision approach capability. The ...

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UPS Aviation Technologies (UPS AT) plans to develop a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver capable of using existing signals from the US Federal Aviation Administration's Wide Area Augmentation ...

A recentlyinstalled FAA navigation system called the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)is making life much easier for general-aviation pilots in the United States, particularly when trying to land ...

Aeroflex has added the ability to simulate WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) LPV (Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance) approach procedures to its GPSG-1000 portable GPS simulator to ...

Credit: JIM CLEPLAK/MITRE CORP. The FAA's newly commissioned GPS Wide Area Augmentation System was a major step in expanding satellite navigation capabilities. A similar boost could come from the ...

MILITARY WAAS: Although the Air Force is considering developing a military version of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), the difficulties involved with maintaining secure ground stations around ...

The FAA has awarded Leidos a task order to develop the seventh-generation geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellite used for the FAA wide area augmentation system (WAAS). The task order has a ...