Airservices Australia Wants to Revamp Towers with New Technology

Airservices Australia is releasing a tender for new communications and equipment that would be required as part of a control tower technology upgrade program, codenamed Project Mercury, which could involve as many as 26 airports.

Preliminary tender documents released by Airservices, and made public by Australian IT, indicate that the modernization program would be carried out in three phases: The first would involve building new control towers at Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Rockhampton; the second would install new hardware and software in these new towers before doing the same at the remaining sites; and the third would assess the possibility for refurbishing and refitting towers at other sites operated by Airservices.

The project will also include a new ADMS (aeronautical data management system) database.

Airservices says suppliers will only be guaranteed contracts to provide equipment and technical service at the four new towers being built under the program's first phase. Furthermore, the contractor will be required to provide training to controllers and maintenance staff.

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