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Efforts Renew to Understand Dangers of Mountain Flying Raytheon, New Celebrating 20 Years Incorporating Airport◀ Security Report April 3, 2006 Vol. 20 No. 14 Washington, D.C. www.aviationtoday.com Efforts Renew to Understand Dangers of Mountain Flying More On The European Blacklist .................3 Signifi cant Regulatory Activity .....................4 A research project Aviation Safety in California’s Sierra Accidents and Incidents ................................8 Nevada mountains is attempting a major table of contents leap forward in unraveling the mysteries surrounding one the biggest atmospheric hazards in modern avia- Raytheon, New York Offi cials Plan tion — a wind phenomenon known as a “mountain New Level of System Integration rotor.” Both rotors and a related phenomenon, moun- A planned perim- tain waves, regularly form on a mountain’s lee side, or Aviation Security eter security system for on the side opposite the direction from which strong four airports in the New winds typically blow. Just such a site is in Owens Val- York area will help solve ley, Calif., which is between the Sierra Nevada and one of today’s biggest aviation security gaps — the the city of Fresno. There, from March 1 to April 30, a sharing of real-time information across airports. series of airborne and ground-based readings are be- Both the Port Authority of New York and New ing taken for the “terrain-induced rotor experiment” Jersey (PANYNJ) and the Raytheon Company (T-REX), says the lead researcher, Vanda Grubišić, [RTN], which is preparing to install its “Perimeter of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) based in Las Intrusion Detection System” (PIDS) at New York’s Vegas and Reno, Nevada. Primary funding is com- John F. Kennedy Int’l Airport (NYC) and LaGuardia ing from the National Science Foundation in Wash- (LGA), as well as in New Jersey at Newark Liberty ington, D.C. Int’l and Teeterboro (TEB), say the new system will Around the world, there are 60 principle research- be the fi rst of its kind in the nation. This is because it ers and another 40 interns and technical staff who will integrate data from several types of sensors and are starting to analyze the new data, Grubišić adds. funnel the data to the same control center. For the scientifi c community, it’s a chance to revisit Whether new security systems are about pe- these atmospheric phenomena whose existence have rimeters, access control, or something else new and been known for a long time. But now, researchers are wonderful, data often are not coordinated with other coming back to them with the latest technology and systems at the same airport, or with other airports or research methods, and the chance over the next three transportation hubs in the same region. years to develop numerical models from the T-REX For the PANYNJ, PIDS is expected to alert secu- data. rity offi cials to suspicious goings-on that happen si- “Despite numerous investigations during the last multaneously or appear to be starting a trend across 70 years concerning lee waves, the structure and dy- facilities. Also, if one operator goes off to the rest namics of rotors remains largely unknown,” René room or is having lunch, and his/her workstation is Heise, a meteorologist in Germany with the Moun- initially alarmed, there will be a time-out feature that tain Wave Project (MWP), tells Air Safety Week. forwards the alarm to a different workstation after a Mountain waves, which in form are something set time interval. like the waves at a sea shore, result from oncoming Then again, if it’s a good idea to link four airports air coming against a mountain’s face that is then in the same metro area, it also makes sense someday (See Rotors on p. 6) (See Raytheon on p. 2) © 2006 Access Intelligence, LLC. Federal copyright law prohibits unauthorized reproduction by any means and imposes fi nes of up to $100,000 for violations. Page 2 AIR SAFETY WEEK, April 3, 2006 Raytheon (Cont’d from p. 1) such as the firms’ experience and pricing. In the end, the authority “concluded that Raytheon had the best to link facilities regionally and nationally. But with the value solution for their specific and unique needs.” vagaries inherent in today’s funding streams, it’s not Raytheon is planning at least five types of sensors likely that neighboring airports would be able to co- for the Port Authority’s airports, including three kinds ordinate their renovations in this way. This is probably of cameras, ground-based radar and smart fencing, an area where the Transportation Security Administra- says Raytheon’s Rich Dinka, who is a director for its tion (TSA) would have to take the lead. airspace management and homeland security division. A TSA spokeswoman says that while the agency is Over at command and control, which PANYNJ interested in regional communications linkages, but is says will be at a police facility separate from any of not yet testing such a system. the four airports, Dinka explains that operators will Another perimeter security system under con- be alarmed when a possible intrusion is detected and struction for the Houston Airport Authority at two of will then see different types of data coming in on two its facilities, George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) and screens. On the left screen, there will be tabular data on William P. Hobby (HOU), and being installed by Hon- the intruder’s whereabouts and characteristics; while eywell International [HON] (Air Safety Week, Jan. 23, the right-hand screen will display video. The system p. 1), appears to share some data-integration charac- also will alarm according to pre-defined operator rules teristics with Raytheon’s New York project. and priorities, and will differentiate as to the type of One big difference between the Houston and New alarm, such as from perimeter intrusions, worker ac- York projects, however, seems to be the two systems’ cess control alerts, loss of communications, low power, price tags, according to airport security consultant and system tampering. Bob Poole of the Reason Foundation. At $140 million, Raytheon already has site surveys underway Raytheon’s estimate for the Port Authority is signifi- at all four airports, Dinka tells Air Safety Week. Con- cantly greater than the $3.5 million the Houston sys- struction will begin this summer, and individual air- tem is expected to cost. ports will come on line in phases. By early 2008, there “It may well be that the risk of a terrorist attack on should be a fully operational, four-airport system. New York airports is greater than that of an attack on Raytheon’s partners in the PANYNJ project in- the Houston airports,” Poole says. “But the New York clude 4D Security Solutions (advanced sensors, among contract has all the earmarks of elaborate high-tech other things), Intergraph [INGR] (command and con- bells and whistles —‘Gee, that’s neat, let’s do it because trol and dispatch systems); Mass Electric Construction we can’—rather than a business-like approach to get- Co. (general and electrical contractor); AMSEC (com- ting the most bang for the buck. 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