SELEX Sistemi Integrati awarded contracts in Ukraine for civil
systems
5 August 2010 –
On the occasion of the European Football Championship, which will
take place in Ukraine in 2012, SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a
Finmeccanica company, signed two contracts worth a total value of
€15m with the Ukrainian National company for Air traffic Control
(UkSATSE).
The first
contract, worth €10m, refers to the systems upgrading of the Kiev
Airport, the Ukrainian main hub. SELEX Sistemi Integrati will
upgrade and increase both the hardware and software performances of
the air traffic control centre of Kiev, named “Strela”, which was
realized by the company in the middle nineties.
The “Strela”
control centre performs en route and approach air traffic control
and is the most important integrated air traffic control system in
the country. It is made of 20 controller working positions equipped
with the high resolution CDS2000 screens for the best display of
the radar surveillance information.
For the central
data processing, the control centre can rely on systems for radar
data elaboration, flight planning, data record and reproduction,
alert for potential medium and short term collision, besides
equipments’ monitoring and control.
The “Strela”
upgrading will introduce advanced, state-of-the-art flight
functionalities, guaranteeing increased performances for flight
security and operational efficiency. It represents a further proof
of UkSATSE’s trust towards SELEX Sistemi Integrati.
The second
contract SELEX Sistemi Integrati signed through its German
subsidiary SELEX Systems Integration GmbH, has a value of about
€5m. Under this agreement, the company will provide three
meteorological Meteor radars (featuring a range of about 400 Km)
for the regions of Lvov, Karkov e Simferopol.
In 2008, the
German company signed a contract for the meteorological radar
coverage of the Kiev region. The new contract represents an
important reference for the future extension of the meteorological
radar coverage all over the Ukrainian areas.
Through these
new contracts SELEX Sistemi Integrati confirms its commercial
presence in Ukraine, where, in the past, the company had already
sold five primary and secondary air traffic control radar systems.
The recent agreements represent a further confirmation of SELEX
Sistemi Integrati’s capability to be a lifelong partner for the
development and implementation of a nationwide complex ATC
system.