Raytheon air traffic system for Royal Netherlands Air Force

Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL) has just secured a contract to supply the Military Approach and Surveillance System (MASS) for the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

The contract, valued at £ 4lmillion, is a turnkey programme calling for five Primary Radars, five Secondary Radars, a Centralised Automation System and all of the necessary civil works including a communications infrastructure. The programme is scheduled to be completed within three years.

RSL is the prime contractor and will be supplying its Secondary Surveillance Radar from its Harlow, UK, facility. This is the first contract in which the company's latest-generation of European Mode-S technology will be utilised in a military system. The Primary Radar will be supplied by Raytheon Systems Canada Limited and the Air Traffic Management system will come from Raytheon Company's C31 business in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

The MASS programme calls for the replacement of an existing military air traffic control system with the primary and secondary radars being installed at Woensdrecht, Soesterberg, Twenthe, Volkel and Leeuwarden. Raytheon's AutoTrac ATM system will be located at Nieuw Milligen.

Mick Reeve, ATC Business Executive at RSL, said, "We were delighted to win the contract for this important turnkey programme which demonstrates once again Raytheon's leading capability in air traffic management systems. This new military system is the second major ATM capability within The Netherlands to be supplied by Raytheon following the commissioning of the civil Amsterdam Advanced Air Traffic Control System at Schiphol International Airport."

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