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ACCIPITER / SICOM IN THE MEDIA

Reducing Bird Strikes - New Radar Networks Can Help Make Skies Safer.
	January 14, 2010 - FAA Wildlife Hazard Mitigation Program Fact Sheet Following the US Airways Flight 1549 bird strike and emergency landing in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, public interest in the FAA’s wildlife mitigation efforts significantly increased. The FAA remains committed to its long-standing goal of reducing wildlife hazards at or near U.S. airports. To reach that goal, the FAA regularly partners with academia, military, other government agencies, and the aviation industry to conduct research and outreach in this area. This Fact Sheet provides an overview of on-going wildlife mitigation efforts by the FAA including the assessment of bird strike prevention technology such as avian radar.
Reducing Bird Strikes - New Radar Networks Can Help Make Skies Safer.
	Summer 2009 - Journal of Air Traffic Control From the respected Journal of Air Traffic Control, this is an excellent article providing a comprehensive overview of bird strike prevention and how avian radar technology mitigates this growing challenge at airports. It includes the current operational status of avian radar, an explanation of X versus S band antenna coverage and a glimpse at the future of avian radar networks.
Affordable multi-mission radar surveillance networks for marine and port security.
	June 2009 - Journal of Ocean Technology, Maritime & Port Security This article explores Accipiter® security networks, including affordable ground-based, integrated, digital marine radars providing continuous situational awareness. Radar surveillance of critical infrastructure sites, often near waterways or marine exclusion zones, provides authorities with the information needed to prevent, respond to and control security threats.
Jane's Airport Review examines the development of Avian Radars.
	June 2009 - Jane's Airport Review Despite dire media accounts of the threat of bird strikes following the January 2009 ditching of a US Airways A320 in New York's Hudson River, aircraft have been colliding with birds since the earliest days of powered flight. Aviation authorities can, therefore, only attempt to minimise, rather than completely prevent, the risk of aircraft and birds colliding. Recent developments in radar are showing great promise.
Accipiter® Radar proud to have been Premium Executive Sponsor for 2009 inaugural forum.
	May 8th, 2009 - Accipiter Radar The Miracle on the Hudson has increased awareness of Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) and leaves aviation and wildlife mitigation experts looking for solutions. Hundreds of professionals in these fields gathered May 6 and 7th in Chicago, Illinois for the Bird Strike Prevention Conference. The inaugural conference offered those in all fields an opportunity to gather information, exchange ideas and attend presentations by experts on bird strike hazard prevention. Accipiter Radar was the Premiere Executive Sponsor of the conference and hosted the forum luncheon. Dr. Tim J. Nohara, Accipiter President and CEO shared a brief summary of Avian Radar and how innovative technology developed by Accipiter Radar helps reduce BASH.
Accipiter collaborates with government, academia, industry and airport community to battle bird strikes.
	April 2009 - Aviation International News The danger of bird strikes is nothing new to aviation. The “Miracle on the Hudson“ has renewed awareness of this ever present hazard and the solutions available to mitigate the problem. Collaboration between government (FAA), academia (University of Illinois's Center of Excellence for Airport Technology), industry (Accipiter) and the airport community (SeaTac) assesses how avian radar can help make flight safer.
Accipiter Featured as a Successful Entrepreneurial Niagara Company
	February 2009 - www.NiagaraCanada.com Accipiter is proud to have been chosen by Niagara Economic Development Corporation as one of Niagara's leading technology companies. The Niagara Region has served us well for more than a decade with its central North American location, proximity to leading educational institutions, access to skilled workforce and central transporation hub. We have been fortunate to have local government leaders who have been interested, involved and instrumental in our success. Add to that the natural beauty of the Niagara Peninsula, and its recreational, leisure and cultural lifestyle; it is an ideal location for families and business.
Sea-Tac Airport uses Accipiter Radars to Prevent Bird Strikes.
	February 11, 2009 - CNN.COM Steve Osmek, wildlife biologist at Sea-Tac Airport credits Accipiter radars as being the airport's most valuable tool for detecting and tracking birds. In three separate locations, avian radar terminals track the birds within six miles of the airport and up to 3,000 feet. This information is helpful in determining whether the species of bird might be a sparrow as opposed to a Canada goose - an important distinction from a jet engine's perspective.
Sea-Tac Airport Comprehensive Wildlife Management programs uses Accipiter Radars.
	February 01, 2009 - PortSeattle.org Sea-Tac Airport has a comprehensive wildlife management program that makes the airport area less attractive for certain wildlife species, thus ensuring a safe environment for aviation and passengers. In August 2007, Sea-Tac became the world's first airport to use avian radar in a long-term monitoring effort to detect potentially hazardous bird activity on and near an airport. Sea-Tac now uses three Accipiter® radars continuously.
NYC Airports Take New Steps to Fight Bird Hazards in the aftermath of US Airways Flight 1549.
	January 22, 2009 - Bloomberg.com Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirms that Accipiter Avian Radars will go to JFK Airport for FAA evaluation, with expansion to LaGuardia and New Jersey's Newark Liberty Int. Airport upon successful evaluation. (PDF - 180 KB)
Battling Bird Strikes
	January 26, 2009 - Flight International (as seen on FlightGlobal.com) Journalist Kieran Daly takes an international look at bird strikes and related technology following the recent ditching of a US Airways Airbus A320 in New York's Hudson river. North American and European avian radar efforts are surveyed in the context of civil airports. At the present time, only Accipiter Avian Radars are deployed by the FAA at several, major, U.S. airports. The article features an interview with Dr. Tim J. Nohara, Accipiter's president, where the benefits of using high-resolution avian radars are discussed.
Sea-Tac Works to Keep Birds, Planes from Colliding
	January 17, 2009 - The Seattle Times Steve Osmek, the wildlife program manager at Sea-Tac, demonstrates various bird hazard management techniques to reporters one day after a suspected bird strike brought down a US Airways jet in New York. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has been using Accipiter's Avian Radars to continuously track birds in its airspace since March 2007 as part of FAA's avian radar evaluation program.
Related NECN.com Article & Webcast
	January 17, 2009 - NECN.COM Steve Osmek, the wildlife program manager at Sea-Tac, demonstrates various bird hazard management techniques to reporters one day after a suspected bird strike brought down a US Airways jet in New York. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has been using Accipiter's Avian Radars to continuously track birds in its airspace since March 2007 as part of FAA's avian radar evaluation program.
Accipiter® (eBirdRad) Bird Radar Prevents Collisions at Navy's Air Base
	December 05, 2007 - Medill Reports, Washington For several years now, Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. and its parent company have been research and development partners with the U.S. Navy, and USDA and heavily involved in the eBirdRad project, in particular. We are proud that Accipiter® avian radars have been selected as the radar system of choice in providing essential bird monitoring information to those who require it, which will help to reduce the occasions for birdstrikes. (PDF - 281 KB)
Accipiter® Security Radars providing Superior Surveillance
	Autumn 2007 - Frontline Security Magazine Radar surveillance systems have long been proven to be effective security tools in military applications. The Accipiter® line of security radars, however, now makes it affordable enough to be use by homeland security and law enforcement agencies that have tight budgets. (PDF - 214 KB)
Integrating Accipiter® Avian Radars into Navy Operations
	Summer 2007 - Currents - The U.S. Navy's Environmental Magazine Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. has been chosen to participate in the Environmental Security and Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). A new project is underway, utilizing Accipiter® Avian Radar technology to demonstrate that avian radar systems can provide natural resources managers and airport aviation safety personnel with improved tools for automatically monitoring the abundance and behaviour of resident and migratory birds in and around military airfields and ranges. (PDF - 275 KB)
SEATAC tests Accipter® Avian Radar.
	Summer 2007 - Embry Riddell Aeronautical University - Airport Wildlife Mitigation The Accipiter® multi-sensor avian radar system was chosen for an FAA-funded multi-year, radar study being conducted at Seatac Airport in Washington State. This study will apply scientific rigor to the development and testing of short-ranged radar hardware and its supporting bird detection algorithms. (PDF - 718 KB)
Whitbey Island successfully tests new Accipter® Avian Radar.
	May 03, 2007 - Navy Newstand Read how the Accipiter® Avian Radar System (eBirdrad) has been implemented at NAS Whitbey Island as part of a multiagency project that includes members of the military, Marine and Navy BASH programs, USDAWSP, FAA, academic community and civilians. The performance of this "cutting-edge technology" has been described as "amazing". Special emphasis has been placed on ground-truthing all targets that this radar system detects and tracks in real time. (PDF - 15 KB)
Accipter® Security Radar - An IRAP Success Story.
	November 21, 2006 - National Research Council Canada Read how the Accipiter® Security Radar System can be used to monitor marine traffic and offer sophisticated perimeter security to protect critical infrastructure and other valuable resources, unattended, 24/7. (PDF - 24 KB)
Accipter® Avian Radar for Airport Wildlife Managment.
	December 01, 2005 - TC Airport Wildlife Management Bulletin no.36 Read how Sicom's Accipiter® Avian Radar System can be used to assist wildlife management programs at airports by detecting and tracking the movement of birds 24/7. (PDF - 836 KB)
On Guard - Sicom's radar system can help safeguard our border.
	November 09, 2005 - Pelham News Read how Sicom's Accipiter® Radar System can be used to safeguard our border. Sicom's technology was successfully demonstrated at a Marine Sensor Integration Experiment conducted by Defence Research & Development Canada off the coast of Cape Breton, NS. (PDF - 2,535 KB)
Radar prevents flight line from going to the birds.
	October 13, 2005 - Windsock, MCAS Cherry Point Read how Sicom's Accipiter® Radar System is being used to detect, track and study birds at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point for the purpose of protecting human life, wildlife and aircraft during takeoff and landing. (PDF - 785 KB)
Keeping Souvenir Hunters at Bay
	July 28, 2004 - St. Catharines Standard Read how Sicom's Accipiter® Radar System is being used for marine surveillance to protect from scavengers the Hamilton and Scourge historic vessels of the War of 1812. (PDF - 198 KB)
Canada Aids Enemy Ships - from 1813
	July 26, 2004 - National Post The City of Hamilton is set to unveil its use of Sicom's Accipiter® Radar System to protect the final resting place of the Hamilton and the Scourge, two armed schooners that sank nearly 200 years ago in a sudden storm during the War of 1812. (PDF - 376 KB)
Sicom Develops Security Radar Technology
	November/December 2003 - Canadian Electronics Journal Read how Sicom's Accipiter® Security Radar System is an affordable radar system that is being used for homeland security surveillance applications to provide enhanced awareness of potential threats to critical infrastructure and international border security. (PDF - 751 KB)
The Haida's Last Mission
	August 27, 2003 - St. Catharines Standard Read how Sicom is using the final journey of the HMCS Haida to its final resting place, to track and test its proprietary Accipiter® Security Radar system, that is a low-cost system designed for various homeland security applications. (PDF - 141 KB)