Indra awarded implementation of air traffic management and communications system in Colombia

Indra was awarded the implementation of the air traffic management system of Cali and Villavicencio's control centres in Colombia as well as providing them with IP communications systems for euros 2 M. For Indra, this contract is another step forward in the modernisation of the Colombian air space management and control systems, where the company has been working for the last 10 years along with the civil aeronautics of Colombia, who is responsible for the country's air traffic security.

Indra will implement the 2100 Aircon system in these two centres. This system was thoroughly developed with Indra’s proprietary technology for approach and route control thanks to flight information automatic processing. The system can tell in advance of conflicts that may occur among the routes of different aircrafts as well as areas where traffic congestion might take place. These features will help increase the amount of flights to be managed by these airports, which are located in an important area of transit between north and south of the continent.

The 2100 Aircon system has another advantage; it is widely implemented in Latin America. All Central American countries and the Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services (COCESNA), the organisation that coordinates navigation within the area, use it. This favours a uniform data exchange between control centres and aircrafts facilitating traffic management and coordination among countries.

Indra will also provide Cali and Villavicencio’s centres with a 2100 VOIP communications system that integrates voice and data, thus guaranteeing robust communications between the control centre, the airport and reception points of radar information.

The modernisation of these systems adds to the renewal of the systems pertaining to Bogota airport, in the country’s capital and Rionegro airport in Medellín, the country’s most important ones. The 2000 Aircon systems in these airports are undergoing adaptation to the new 2100 Aircon features.

Indra has also renewed the control centre systems in Leticia, in the Amazonia and has provided Civil Aeronautics of Colombia with surveillance and control systems as well as with a simulation centre at the controllers’ school in Bogotá.

Indra is the premier Information Technology Company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked among the two first European companies in its sector according to stock market capitalisation, and it is one of the three Spanish companies with more investment in R&D. In 2007, revenues will exceed € 2.100M, of which a third comes from the international market. The company employs more than 23.000 professionals and has clients in more than 80 countries.