Raytheon Canada Limited - Richmond,BC Division
Raytheon Canadas Richmond, BC facility ( RCL-RF) has been in existence since 1989. With nearly 150 people, the facility is comprised of 2 buildings and is one of the largest high tech employers in British Columbia.
Raytheon places considerable importance on the quality of its products and services and the Richmond, BC operation is not only ISO 9001certified (with migration planned to the AS9100 - Aeronautical Standard), but also has the Software Engineering Institutes (SEI)certification for CMM at level 3 and CMMI level 2.
RCL-RF has proven project experience with offsite developers - cross continent, cross time zones, and experience with customers world-wide.
Core activity at the Richmond site is the design, development
and integration of large scale , software-intensive systems, largely for air traffic management (ATM). Products include the Canadian
Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS), the Military Automated Air
Traffic System (MAATS), developed and supported from Richmond.
The Richmond site also offers the TracView system which is an
air traffic control display subsystem used to provide an integrated
display of track, flight plan, map, sensor, and message data to
the controller. It is an off-the-shelf airspace management solution
designed to meet the needs of towers, approach facilities and
small- to mid-size area control centers. Raytheon's TracView
software is capable of handling more than 150 simultaneous
system tracks and capable of accepting target data from more
than 4 primary radars. The TracView software is composed of
commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) products.
In addition, the Richmond facility offers a next generation air traffic
control simulation product line. The FIRSTplus product line expands
the concepts contained in the FIRST air traffic control simulator
product line, and supports radar, visual, and procedural
training for area, approach, tower and ground environments.
The FIRST product line is presently in use at over 50 sites around the world.
RCL-RF is also focused on applying its expertise gained through these programs to provide technical services in the areas of:
Project Management, Operations Concept Development. Product Life Cycle ( R&D to Warranty), Domain Expertise ( see Technology profile), Tools and programming services, as well as Training and Integrated Logistics Support.
The Raytheon, Richmond, BC division is also focusing its resources on Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. This includes Integrated Security solutions for Borders, Airports, Ports and Large events.
Raytheon Canada Limited - Richmond, BC is a subsidiary of Raytheon Company . Raytheon Company is one of the largest Defense and Aerospace Systems Suppliers with 2004 revenues over $25B and 80,000 employees worldwide
Company Details
Year Established:
1989
Total Sales ($CDN):
$10,000,000 - $25,000,000
Number of Employees:
150
Company Information
David Wang
Title:
General Manager
Area of Responsibility:
Research/Development/Engineering
Telephone:
(604) 279-5635
Fax:
(604) 279-5868
Products
Defense - Other
Caats Canadian Automated Air Traffic System
Products: Canadian Automated Air Traffic System (CAATS)
CAATS is a complete Air Traffic Management (ATM) system
providing controllers gate-to-gate management services, and has
been designed as a product to be easily adapted to any ATM
environment. It implements the latest technology and can provide
the controller with a paper-free environment. CAATS is the
advanced air traffic automation system which replaced NAV
CANADAs systems and equipment with advanced software,
hardware and communications technologies. It will be installed
in the seven area control centers across Canada.
CAATS offers a complete system solution containing all the
functions for Air Traffic Management and support, including the
roles of air traffic controller, system manager, data manager,
supervisor and operations support. CAATS handles both ICAO and
domestic IFR flight plans and supports VFR profile management
and many other features, such as late arrival warnings.
Interfaces are integrated to support flight information exchange
and both atmospheric and aeronautical data acquisition and
application.
CAATS provides a rich toolset for controlling IFR aircraft both
in and out of radar coverage. Controllers can quickly enter and
modify detailed IFR flight clearances. This distinctive feature,
in turn, supports system functions of automatic flight data
posting, conformance monitoring, hand-off warnings, adapted
automatic hand-off and acceptance and flight data distribution.
The four-dimensional profile is highly accurate and is built
from clearance and wind data using adapted aircraft performance
models and adapted route information. CAATS includes a
conflict prediction capability that evaluates IFR clearances
against separation rules. Conflict probe allows a controller
to what-if a clearance before committing that clearance. The
controller can convert planned clearances to current clearances
and forward them to flight service stations or towers as
required.
With CAATS, master sectors can be consolidated or deconsolidated
as traffic levels vary. Sectors can be dynamically configured
to use multiple adjacent workstation display screens for one or
more controllers. User and sector preferences combine to
facilitate easy setup of the many adaptable display objects.
The controller workstation can display any combination of
situation and tabular data. The situation display comprises an
integration of surveillance, weather and flight data (clearance
details, position of non-radar flights, etc.) over an adaptable
multi-layer color map. The display is highly interactive,
allowing the controller to immediately access and modify flight
data, obtain current status data on map objects such as
airports, airways, NAVAIDs, restricted areas and special use
airspace.
With an eye to maintaining its competitive edge by staying at
the forefront of ATM system providers, Raytheon also directs its
resources toward researching new technologies that take
advantage of the capability to exchange data directly between
aircraft and ground-based systems.
Maats Military Automated Air Traffic System
Military Automated Air Traffic System (MAATS)
Raytheons Richmond Facility has developed a major
upgrade to Canadas military ATC facilities. The new Military
Automated Air Traffic System (MAATS), provides the countrys
Department of National Defence (DND) with a level of ATC
modernization equivalent to that which is available to
the civilian sector.
The MAATS solution is based on Raytheons CAATS product. CAATS,
the Canadian Automated Air Traffic System, is to be
deployed to the countrys 7 civilian Area Control Centers, 23 of
the busiest towers, and the national training and support
centers. CAATS will establish a new infrastructure of advanced
flight data processing and automated collaboration amongst
distributed ATC facilities.
The MAATS program will supply DND with a variety of control and
support configurations. All MAATS facilities will be integrated
into a unified CAATS/MAATS communications and distributed
management infrastructure, meaning that all systems will be
capable of seamlessly sharing flight, control, and system
information.
Two new Military Terminal Control Centers will be constructed at
Edmonton and Montreal to handle terminal control around 7
military bases. Several types of tower facilities will be
supplied, comprising 7 Sensor Site towers with integrated
radar capability, 2 Stand-Alone Tower Facilities without radar
capability, and a set of 11 Tactical Air Traffic Systems. The
latter configuration will package all tower control
functionality within a single workstation. Six will be utilized
as mobile towers, capable of being rapidly deployed to any
temporary location within Canada. The remaining 5 will be
available to fixed locations, for application as Flight Advisory
terminals.
In addition to ATC systems, MAATS will provide support segments
at the militarys Search and Rescue (SAR) organizations, and at
the NORAD base in North Bay. In each of these applications,
interactive linkage will be provided to applicable flight
information available from the CAATS/MAATS systems.
MAATS incorporates many automation enhancements into the
infrastructure of the Control Centers and Control Towers. A
modern and computerized system of Voice Communications will
integrate radio and telephone communications into the military
facilities, and will also ensure compatibility with civilian ATC
operations. In addition, tower facilities will benefit from
automated monitoring of equipment in the airport environment,
including runway lighting, navigational equipment, and weather
conditions.
Development of the Sensor Site towers is of particular interest
to ATC automation system. For this configuration, Raytheon
will integrate radar processing derived from Raytheons
Guardian ATC product into the CAATS/MAATS architecture. This
implementation will marry a modern multi-variable Radar Data
Processor (RDP) with the very advanced Flight Data Processor
(FDP) functionality of CAATS.
This combination of processing power, in concert with the
flexible adaptability of the CAATS/MAATS architecture, will
provide Raytheon and DND with a highly sophisticated and capable
product.
Firstplus Atc Simulation System
FIRSTplus Tower Simulator
New standards in Control Tower training systems are being set
today by Raytheons FIRSTplus Tower Simulator. The FIRSTplus
product line expands the concepts contained in Raytheons FIRST
air traffic control simulator product line, and supports radar,
visual, and procedural air traffic control training for area,
approach, tower and ground environments. The FIRST product line
is presently in use at over 50 sites around the world.
Raytheons FIRSTplus product line is the first in the simulator
market to offer a completely definable human-machine interface
(HMI) for students, instructors, pilots and system managers in
both civil and military air traffic control applications. This
allows the trainee and pseudo pilot to easily adapt and
configure their displays to reflect their personal preferences.
Platform independence and open, flexible architecture are key
design features. Voice recognition and synthesis is a fully
integrated feature of the FIRSTplus system. System modes include
self-training, data preparation and single or multi-sector
training. The FIRSTplus system offers the flexibility to
incorporate different airspaces, sectors and exercises executing
simultaneously to support training, experimentation, evaluation
or advanced programs.
The philosophy behind the FIRSTplus Tower Simulator is to build
on its proven capabilities by integrating the latest simulation
technologies to deliver the maximum performance and cost
benefits.
FIRSTplus provides new levels of power, tools, facilities and
capacity for students, instructors, pilots and system managers
in both civil and military air traffic control applications.
Tracview
The TracView ATM ( Air Traffic Management) System is an advanced,
cost effective solution to today's growing ATC needs. By
combining the best features of Raytheon's large, custom designed
air traffic management systems with an off-the-shelf approach to
air traffic management, TracView provides an
efficient solution for small to medium sized ATM facilities.
The system's flexible open design is adaptable to a wide variety
of operational environments. The redundant configurations of
TracView ensure extreme reliability and high system availability
, eliminating all single points of failure. These features make
TracView an excellent choice as a backup system for primary ATM
systems at large ATM facilities. With over 40 years of experience
in creating ATM solutions and deliveries to more than 45
countries worldwide, Raytheon offers TracView customers a proven
solution, as well as a tradition of excellent product maintenance
and support.
Services
Architect And Engineering Services - Not Related To Construction
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of services available.
Other Engineering Studies
General Science And Technology
Defense Systems
Raytheon Canada Limited - Richmond , BC is a subsidiary of Raytheon Company one of the largest Defense and Aerospace Systems suppliers.
Other Research And Development
Adp Software
Automated Information System Design And Integration Services
Engineering And Technical Services (incl. Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Electronic Engineering)
Communication Training Devices
Space
Transportation - General
Transportation - Modal
Operation Training Devices
Aeronautic/Space Studies
Advanced Engineering Services
Raytheon Canada provides a wide variety of Advanced Engineering
Services through their Richmond Facility. The Facility comprises
teams of highly experienced engineers and supporting technical
staff, including industry-recognized professionals.
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Integrated Security Solutions
Raytheon Canada Limited - Richmond, BC Division provides Integrated Security Solutions for Homeland Security and Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Applications. This includes solutions for Borders, Airports, Ports and Large events (Olympics)
Computer Systems Integration
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Computer Systems Design
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