Harris Corporation Awarded Contract by FAA
for Alaska Flight Services System
Harris Corporation has been awarded a
10-year contract, with an expected value of
$98 million, by the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) to upgrade and manage
the system that provides real-time weather
data and flight-planning capabilities for
Alaska’s general aviation community. The
contract includes three base years and seven
one-year options.
Under the Operational and Supportability
Implementation System (OASIS) II program, Harris
will provide integrated flight planning and
real-time weather briefing capabilities to FAA
Flight Service specialists. OASIS also supports
Notice to Airmen messages – which alert pilots to
potential hazards and provides up-to-date radar and
satellite imagery. OASIS II will be the first
consumer of System Wide Information Management in
National Airspace System (NAS). As a part of the
contract Harris also will provide system test and
maintenance support services.
Harris was awarded the original OASIS contract in
1997, and it is currently operational at 18 sites in
Alaska and four support sites in the continental
U.S.
“OASIS is critical to ensuring the safety of
general aviation aircraft operating in Alaska’s
challenging weather conditions and remote
mountainous terrain,” said John O’Sullivan, vice
president, NextGen Initiatives, Harris Government
Communications Systems. “As a managed service, OASIS
ensures low-risk, cost-effective modernization of
the FAA’s technology infrastructure in Alaska and
leverages the experience we have gained from other
managed services programs.”
Harris has a long history of developing and
integrating system solutions for the FAA in support
of the NAS. The company is the prime contractor for
the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI)
program, which provides critical voice, data and
video communications for NAS operations and mission
support functions. FTI securely connects more than
4,300 national and international FAA and DOD
facilities, manages over 26,000 services, and
supports more than 50,000 users. Other FAA programs
developed by Harris include:
The Weather and
Radar Processor, which provides weather
processing dissemination and display
capabilities to air traffic controllers in the
en-route air traffic control environment;
Data Communications
Integrated Services, which provides
air-to-ground digital data link networks to
connect FAA air traffic control sites and data
communications-equipped aircraft;
The NAS Voice
System, which provides a secure, IP-based voice
network for critical communications between air
traffic controllers, pilots and ground personnel
nationwide; and
The Alaskan
Satellite Telecommunications Infrastructure
program, which provides voice and data
communications between the Alaskan Air Route
Traffic Control Center in Anchorage and 64
regional FAA sites.
