The FAA has selected a vendor to replace hundreds of analog air traffic control (ATC) communications switchboards with digital voice switches as it continues to modernize the nation’s ATC system.
Rohde & Schwarz USA, the American subsidiary of the German electronics manufacturer, said April 21 that it won a contract worth almost $5 billion to replace up to 462 antiquated voice switches—many of them decades old—with modern systems designed to allow controllers to more quickly and easily toggle between radio channels.
