The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an FAA initiative designed to augment GPS signals, providing enhanced vertical guidance, accuracy, and integrity to enable precision approaches (like ...

WAAS significantly enhances GPS precision, offering stable vertical guidance for approaches (LPV), which improves safety and performance compared to traditional systems. Upgrading to WAAS can be a ...

Raytheon Technologies Corp.’s RTX business segment, Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S), recently won a contract to provide technical refresh and Dual Frequency Operation (DFO) upgrades to the FAA's ...

L -3 Avionics Systems introduced its new LandMark Terrain Awareness & Warning System (TAWS) with a WAAS-GPS sensor on Oct. 11 at the National Business Aviation Association convention. The Model 8100 ...

The Eutelsat 117 West B satellite, also called SatMex 9, is one of three commercial geostationary satellites that constitute the space segment of WAAS. Credit: FAA Concept Fifty years since the ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new 10-year contract to Raytheon Intelligence & Space that will provide a technical refresh for the Wide-Area Augmentation System (WAAS)—a space-based ...

Navigation system promises to improve approach guidance down to as low as 250ft UPS Aviation Technologies (UPSAT) has received the first certification for a wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) GPS ...

An official evaluation of Advanced RAIM (ARAIM), a GPS technique used in aviation receivers for safer landings and take-offs, is being conducted by the William J. Hughes Technical Center (WJHTC) of ...

With pre-owned inventory near a 10-year low and GPS jamming in the news, backup navigation like VOR is becoming a buyer differentiator.