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ATNS TO LAUNCH 16TH ICT
AND SCIENCE LABORATORY and commercial matters. Airports Company South Africa Chief new solution offers customers the high-
Secondly developing and maintaining Executive Offi cer Mpumi Mpofu said, est levels of safety and security without
Parktown, Johannesburg – The industry standards and procedures “We are very proud to see the improve- sacrifi cing features and performance.
Air Traffi c and Navigation Services as well as services and solutions for ment in the results of learners because “Hensoldt has been a valued partner
limited unveiled its milestone 16th both physical fl ows and electronic this ultimately affects their prospects, of CoreAVI for many years,” said Dan
sponsored ICT and Science laboratory data interchange relating to airmail, particularly for careers that require a Joncas, chief sales and marketing
at Akademia High School in Brandfort aligning existing services and solu- good grounding in Science, Technology, offi cer at CoreAVI.
outside of Bloemfontein, Free State. tions, along with developing new ones Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) “We’re looking forward to once again
The donation forms part of a fi ve-year to ensure harmonized compatibility as well as Accounting. These subjects supporting Hensoldt in bringing to
Back to School CSI initiative which and effi cient application of resources, play a critical part in providing the skills market a new hardware and software
has seen ATNS sponsor laboratories fi nding technology-based standards necessary for the aviation industry and platform that provides its customers with
across the country to schools from and solutions for piece level tracking a modern, thriving economy.” the most advanced safety critical GPU
impoverished communities. in airmail, addressing volumetric compute and graphics capabilities that
The laboratory at Akademia High challenges, through initiatives such HENSOLDT SELECTS NEW today’s avionics systems require.”
School was unveiled by ATNS as Air Packet Box, and allocation AVIONICS COMPUTING SYSTEM CoreAVI has a long-standing partner-
board member and chairman of the and booking procedures for airmail, ship with Hensoldt as they supported
board’s social and ethics committee developing regional on board Nuremberg, Germany – Hensoldt previous generations of Hensoldt’s
Major-General Nhlanhla Ngema. The initiatives and global campaigns on has selected CoreAVI’s COTS-D mission computers with AMD’s E4690
event was attended by delegates from airmail process optimization and hardware IP and graphics and GPU, safety critical OpenGL SC
the department of basic education, standardization and lastly improving compute software to provide a new graphics drivers, as well as successful
ATNS, Akademia high school principal, the involvement of ground handlers generation of safety certifi ed mission completion of DO-254 and DO-178C
teachers and learners. and other industry stakeholders on computers and display systems. certifi cation. Q
ATNS has adopted the promotion of matters concerning airmail. The system will be certifi ed to DO- LUFTHANSA NETWORK
mathematics and physical science 254/ED-80 and DO-178C/ED-12C
as its fl agship initiative and aims to MATRIC PASS RATES SOAR Design Assurance Level A and will AIRLINES HARMONIZE
increase the pool of learners that use the AMD E9171 GPU, AMD’s
ATNS could employ and train as air latest graphics processor that is Raunheim, Germany - Lufthansa
traffi c controllers. Bedfordview, South Africa – An provided by CoreAVI to the avionics Systems have won the contract
to implement its NetLine/Ops ++
ATNS also sponsors winter school educational support programme and high reliability markets. operations management system
projects for grade 10 to 12 learners, supported by Airports Company Hensoldt’s scalable and most as a strategic IT partner to the
teacher development training pro- South Africa that aims to improve advanced display and compute sys- Lufthansa Group.
the overall quality of education
grammes in mathematics and science tems will address the need for both
in conjunction with the DBE. shows how supporting learners, technology refresh requirements as The airline IT specialist came
their teachers and governing bodies out on top against the competition
at disadvantaged high schools can well as deployments for new safety in a multi-stage bidding process.
AIRLINES AND POST OFFICES signifi cantly improve matric pass critical avionics programmes. Now that the multi-year agree-
rates in the space of just a few years. Hensoldt’s new feature-rich avionics ment has been signed for the use
With some benefi ciary schools on computing system offers the scalable of NetLine/Ops ++, the migration
Geneva, Switzerland – The Interna- the programme starting out with power and high performance to meet will soon begin.
tional Air Transport Association (IATA) pass rates of below 30% three the needs of a wide range of safety
To start with, six group airlines
and the International Post Corporation years ago, today the situation is very critical avionics applications. - Lufthansa, Lufthansa CityLine,
(IPC) have signed a Memorandum of different, with the fi ve benefi ciary Purpose-built for graphics and Lufthansa Cargo, Swiss, Austrian
Understanding to re-inforce co-oper- schools achieving average matric compute capabilities with support Airlines and Edelweiss - will ben-
ation between the two organisations. pass rates of 70%. Three of the top for both OpenGL SC 2 and Vulkan,
The aim is to promote the development performing schools achieved matric this highly fl exible solution will offer efi t from extensive functionalities
and expansion of safe, secure, acces- pass rates of over 80% in 2019, with enhanced video with 4K display and harmonised processes that re-
duce costs and ultimately improve
sible and high-quality airmail and air one achieving a 100% pass rate. capabilities and will enable parallel the passenger experience.
cargo services to help their respective processing to host both compute
members provide quality solutions In addition, Airports Company and video applications concurrently. “I was especially delighted that
aligned to consumer needs. South Africa has now launched a Having one partner provide the full Lufthansa Systems' product im-
community bursary scheme, with 19
IATA and IPC intend to work top-performing learners receiving system solution - from the GPU, to pressed us in the bidding process
not only in terms of its functionality
together on seven specifi c areas bursaries to study in the fi elds of IT, safety critical software, to certifi cation
including improving the security, Engineering, Commerce and Law packages - is key to speeding and but also because of its cost-effi -
handover, carriage, delivery and at the Universities of Johannesburg, easing Hensoldt’s integration efforts, ciency,” said Bardo Werum, the
Lufthansa Group’s head of IT do-
settlement of airmail between Witwatersrand, Stellenbosch, Nelson and this collaboration between the two main hub airlines operations and
postal operators and air carriers Mandela Bay and Free State. companies is designed to ensure this
including e-commerce, economic passenger service systems. Q

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