Defence’s participation in the Airservices Australia-led OneSky program to acquire a joint civil and military air traffic management system has been placed onto the government’s Projects of Concern list. As a consequence, the project, which aims to replace the currently separate civil and Defence air traffic management systems under a single program, and is known to Defence
Airservices Australia says the benefits of its ‘Accelerate’ restructuring program will allow it to deliver real cost reductions to its aviation industry customers across the next five years. The government-owned air navigation service provider and aviation firefighting operator released its latest five-year corporate plan on Tuesday, detailing its forecasted financial performance through to the end
Airservices Australia board chair Sir Angus Houston has told a Senate committee that the air navigation service provider is “99 per cent ready to go” to sign contracts for the new OneSky air traffic management system. Since February 2015 Airservices has been negotiating with Thales as its preferred supplier for the OneSky project for a
An Australian project to develop a space-based augmentation system (SBAS) that promises navigational accuracy to less than 10 centimetres is “well underway”, according to Lockheed Martin, one of three industry participants in a two-year Australian Government-led trial. “We are undertaking a two-year testbed that will dramatically improve the accuracy of navigation systems. That program started in February,
Pilots will be able to view live conditions at six more locations around the country after Airservices expanded its weather camera portal that was initially launched in May 2017. Airservices says the six new sites that have come online are Albany, Coffs Harbour, Esperance, Kalgoorlie, Mount Gambier and Wagga Wagga. This content is available exclusively
Sir Angus Houston will remain as chair of the Airservices board until at least June 2018 after the federal government extended his term by one year. The former Chief of Defence Force and Chief of Air Force was appointed to the Airservices board in December 2011 and was made chairman in June the following year.