A national team led by Lockheed
Martin has been selected by the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) to provide ground stations and broadcast services that will support
satellite navigation signals for aviation use in the Wide Area Augmentation
System (WAAS). The award, with an initial amount of $34 million, has a
potential value of $597 million, if contract options for additional satellite
services are exercised.

The FAA’s two-year Geostationary Communications and Control Segment (GCCS)
program also includes options that would lengthen the contract. These include
options to lease satellite communications services on 10-year terms. Lockheed
Martin Air Traffic Management is the large system integrator for the program
and will integrate elements of the GCCS system. Lockheed Martin is joined on
this program by teammates the Boeing Co., and Raytheon.

“GCCS will enable WAAS realization and help make satellite-based
navigation for aviation a reality,” said Don Antonucci, president, Lockheed
Martin Air Traffic Management. “Our National Team will apply its collective
expertise in helping the FAA realize its goal of improved safety and
reliability for aviation users. GCCS supports our goals of broadening our
business beyond traditional air traffic automation.”

WAAS is a GPS-based navigation and landing system for aviation use that
will provide precision guidance to aircraft at thousands of airports and
airstrips where there is currently no precision landing capability. WAAS
improves the accuracy and ensures the integrity of navigation information from
GPS satellites. The WAAS broadcast message improves GPS signal accuracy from
100 meters to approximately seven meters.

GCCS will help provide the initial flight navigation capability for
precision approaches to runways through the full operational capability of
WAAS that will come later.

Lockheed Martin and its teammates will provide ground uplink stations that
collect Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation data that has been
corrected and enhanced for accuracy, and also the technology to broadcast the
data as signals to geostationary communications satellites. The satellites
send the augmented GPS navigation signals to in-flight aircraft equipped to
receive them. The FAA can exercise options for additional leased satellite
communications services.

Teammates Boeing and Raytheon provide expertise in areas of uplink
communications and navigation services, respectively.

Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management has had a contract for broadcast
services, the WAAS GEO program, since 2001 to provide satellite communications
uplink services from multiple sites.

Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management has four decades of experience in
delivering advanced aviation management solutions to customers worldwide, and
focuses on systems integration, engineering design, development, test,
delivery and support of Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (CNS/ATM)
systems. With its solid record of on-schedule, on-budget performance, the
company has earned the prestigious Air Traffic Control Association’s Industry
Award in four of the last six years. A registered ISO 9001 company, Air
Traffic Management employs approximately 1,300 people at major facilities in
Rockville, Atlantic City, N.J., Eagan, Minn., and Southampton, England.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global enterprise
principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and
integration of advanced-technology systems, products and services. The
Corporation’s core businesses are systems integration, space, aeronautics, and
technology services.

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