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January 12, 2010
PRESS RELEASE
Great Progress in Bird Radar since US Airways Flight 1549
Niagara, ONTARIO - Great strides towards wide-scale integration of bird radars
to help mitigate bird strikes are being made as the aviation community marks the US Airways Flight 1549 ditching in the Hudson River
one year ago.
To provide information on this progress, Accipiter Radar
announces the publication of a resource bulletin entitled "On the Radar" available at www.accipiterradar.com/bulletinboard.html.
The first issue focuses on significant advances made by the U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Defense (DoD) and other stakeholders this past year to accelerate the integration of
avian radars into civil and military airport operations in North America.
Recognizing the increasing bird hazards around airports and recent
advances in commercially available avian radar systems, both the FAA and the DoD launched the largest assessment programs of their kind in
mid-2006 and early 2007, respectively. Notwithstanding the significant differences in civil and military airport operations necessitating
deployments at both types of airports, these agencies have been collaborating extensively to leverage resources and accelerate outcomes.
As a result, extensive validation efforts to measure radar system performance and confirm the validity of target
information have been substantially completed, paving the way for an emphasis on operations in remaining integration efforts. Initial
guidance to airports from the FAA on how to acquire and integrate these radar tools into existing operations is expected in the not too
distant future.
Accipiter Radar is a North American company with operations in Canada (Accipiter Radar
Technologies Inc.) and the United States (Accipiter Radar Corporation). Accipiter offers the world's most advanced
3D, 360 deg, commercially-available, tracking surveillance radars using affordable PC-based processing to the
Homeland Security and Aviation Safety markets worldwide. The Accipiter® product family encompasses complete
wide-area radar surveillance solutions including target data acquisition, storage, management, analysis, distribution,
integration, fusion and visualization. Accipiter has won the business of the world's most demanding customers
including the RCMP, DND, the U.S. DoD, Dept. of Homeland Security, and Federal Aviation Administration, every
branch of the military and law enforcement agencies and corporations on both sides of the U.S. / Canada border.
For further information please contact:
Niagara, Ontario, Canada: Tel:905-228-6888 Fax:905-892-2249
Orchard Park, New York, USA: Tel:716-508-4432 Fax:888-393-6421