{"id":76919,"date":"2014-07-15T22:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/raytheon-upgrades-air-force-with-space-based-ads-b\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:57:24","slug":"raytheon-upgrades-air-force-with-space-based-ads-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/raytheon-upgrades-air-force-with-space-based-ads-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon Upgrades Air Force With Space-Based ADS-B"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-15-2014] The U.S. <b>Air Force <\/b>is working with <b>Raytheon <\/b>to transition from ground-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) to satellite ADS-B. Larger Air Force aircraft such as bombers, cargo planes and refueling tankers have begun receiving new transponder capabilities that broadcast location and other data while flying over civil airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn ADS-B transponder continuously transmits information, including direction, speed and altitude,\u201d said Scott Whatmough, vice president of Raytheon\u2019s Space and Airborne Systems\u2019 Integrated Communication Systems. \u201cThe purpose behind this latest technology is to increase safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the switch from ground to space, the ADS-B upgrade incorporates thousands of Raytheon\u2019s Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) systems, which provide time-critical identification of friendly forces using secure messages. The U.S. government is requiring ADS-B technology on all aircraft flying in the United States by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-15-2014] The U.S. Air Force is working with Raytheon to transition from ground-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) to satellite ADS-B. Larger Air Force aircraft such as bombers, cargo planes and refueling tankers have begun receiving new transponder capabilities that broadcast location and other data while flying over civil airspace. \u201cAn ADS-B transponder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}