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In this Update issue

Terma recently secured a contract with Danish

Services Provider, Naviair, to deliver its TERADS

emergency system.

Terma is also to deliver information support system,

ATC*ISS for the prestigious customer, National Air

Traffic Services, NATS, UK.

Terma’s 2K TruePixel LCD air traffic monitor, TP2800,

is nominated for Jane’s Airport Review Industry

Award at the ATC Maastricht 2006 exhibition.

Contents

Naviair selects Terma’s TERADS Emergency System / 2-3

Acknowledgement of the ATC*ISS system / 4

Terma to provide Riga Airport with State-of-the-art ATIS/Volmet Capabilities / 5

Terma ATC*ISS for London Heathrow’s New Tower, NATS / 6-7

The start of a new era in ATM data display / 8-9

Multiple Surface Movement Radars in A-SMGCS / 10-11

We Provide Mission Customized Solutions / 12

TERMA UPDATE . FEBRUARY 2006

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Naviair Selects Terma’s TERADS Emergency System

After a tender process, Terma has

been contracted by the Danish

Services Provider, Naviair, to deliver

its TERADS emergency system.

The system supports Naviair’s

implementation of DATMAS - Danish

Air Traffic Management System,

and takes over when the existing,

Copenhagen Air Traffic Control

Automated System, CATCAS, is closed

down.

Terma will deliver TERADS by the

end of 2006, and throughout 2007,

TERADS will run in parallel with

DATMAS during the shadow operation

period until DATMAS is certified and

declared fully operational by 2008.

after that, TERADS will remain as an

emergency system to DATMAS.

The TERADS emergency system will

secure the ATC controllers’ situational

awareness, including the ability to

clear the airspace at any given time

in case of an operational emergency

situation.

The system will support a total of

63 work stations at the airports of

Copenhagen, Billund, and Roskilde.

Once implemented as an emergency

system, TERADS continuously

supports and backs up the Air Traffic

Management, ATM, unlike most

competing emergency systems that

require a start-up time from idle mode.

The decision by Naviair to select

TERADS for its emergency system

builds first and foremost on the

system’s structural simplicity and

low complexity. These characteristics

secure stable operation, trouble-free

Terma’s TERADS emergency system continously supports and backs up the

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TERADS was developed by Norway’s CAA, Avinor, to support the helicopter operations servicing Norway’s off-shore oil rigs.

Two years ago, Terma acquired TERADS and obtained the global sales and marketing rights, excluding Norway.

Since then, Terma has refined and developed TERADS as a modular system named TERADS Tower, TERADS Backup, and TERADS RADS.

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TERADS EMERGENCY SYSTEMS

and immediate user control with little

demand for additional training, and

the user-friendly Human Machine

Interface (HMI) of TERADS provides

easy customization of fonts and colors

to match the existing environment.

While basically simple and robust,

TERADS is supported by Terma’s

roadmap for future product

development based on inputs from

and demands among existing users of

the system.

Terma offers its TERADS users to join

a dedicated user group that sets the

milestones for continuous updates

and modifications. These are then

made available to all members of the

user group whenever a new version

is released, but can of course also be

acquired by non-user group members

at an extra cost.

TERADS is built on a stand-alone PC

platform, using Windows NT or XP

operative systems. The extensive use

of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS)

components secures low maintenance

costs, high reliability, and easy

implementation within customer

environments.

TERADS has been certified for

operational use by the Norwegian

authorities, and the documentation

from this process secures easy

operational certification by any Civil

Aviation Authority, CAA.

Terma has been contracted by the Danish Air Navigation Services Provider, Naviair, to deliver the TERADS emergency system


INDUSTRY AWARD

At the ATC Maastricht 2005

exhibition, Terma Air Traffic

Management (ATM) received Jane’s

Airport Review’s Industry Award for

our ATC*ISS system.

Terma Air Traffic Management is proud

to be selected as winner of the Industry

Award category in Jane’s Airport Review

magazine among five internationally

recognized companies, including Thales,

ERA, Rannoch Corporation and Micro

Nav. The judges selected the nominees

based on extensive research into their

contributions toward safer skies and

capacity enhancements within the

airspace management industry.

Terma’s ATC Information support system,

ATC*ISS delivers information about

weather, procedures, etc. to the air traffic

controller. Thereby, the efficiency of the

air traffic controller is enhanced, and the

situational awareness is improved. Terma

ATM primarily supplies the system to

control centers, but the system is also

applicable in control towers. The system

has, among others, been sold to the

civilian aviation administrations in

Denmark, Norway, Germany, and the

Netherlands.

In a recently updated version, ATC*ISS

now displays air traffic load data from

the European Organization for the Safety

of Air Navigation, EUROCONTROL. The

data are available for individual air traffic

controllers from Naviair at the

Copenhagen Kastrup control center. The

data from EUROCONTROL’s Central Flow

Management Unit (CFMU) allows for the

management of air traffic flow.

For Naviair, the implementation of the

CFMU interface with its existing

information display system supports

optimal staff planning. The airspace

sector leaders at Naviair, for instance,

are able to foresee the traffic load in the

next 20 minutes and allocate the

appropriate number of controllers to

manage the traffic accordingly. Each

controller can also have direct access to

the CFMU from his or her desktop.

Naviair is a state enterprise under the

Danish Ministry of Transport with a

charter to supply air traffic control

services, i.e. to control and guide

airplanes safely and with least possible

delay through the Danish airspace.

According to EUROCONTROL, the

primary objective of managing the flow

of traffic is to assist Air Traffic Control

(ATC) by avoiding overloads and to

provide a smooth flow of traffic.

Consequently, this adds to air traffic

safety.

The ATC*ISS system at Naviair interprets

traffic load tables for all Danish airspace

sectors generated from a single CFMU

terminal and arranges the data in an

online menu on the controller

workstation display. Upon selecting a

sector, the traffic load is presented in

easy-to-read graphical format allowing

the controllers an overview of the

expected traffic load and possible sector

splits, e.g. in the immediate future. The

information system only displays a

configurable amount of information at a

time and is automatically scrolled with

time as new information is received from

the CFMU terminal.

This year, we are nominated with our 2K

TruePixel® LCD air traffic monitor,

TP2800. We hope to repeat the success

by wining Jane’s Airport Review’s

Industry Award for the TP2800 designed

for the most safety-critical environment

in the world.

Acknowledgement of the ATC*ISS system

Carsten R. Nielsen, General Manager for Terma ATM, receiving Jane’s Airport Review’s Industry Award for Terma’s ATC*ISS system at the ATC Maastricht 2005 exhibition

This year, Terma’s 2K TruePixel® LCD air traffic monitor is nominated by Jane’s Airport Review’s Industry Award.


ATIS FLEX SYSTEM

Terma to provide Riga Airport withState-of-the-art ATIS/Volmet Capabilities

By the end of March, 2006, Terma

ATM will install its advanced ATIS

Flex system at Riga Airport, Latvia,

as part of the CASCADE project.

The system will then go live in April,

and be declared operational by early

2007 after comprehensive tests and

certification.

With ATIS Flex, Riga Airport will be

able to provide digital and voice ATIS

(Automated Terminal Information

Service) and VOLMET (Aeronautical

Broadcast Service) messages to

cockpit crews on approaching,

departing, and en-route aircraft,

greatly relieving ATC controllers of the

need for manual handling of request,

and enhancing safety in the same

process.

The air traffic controllers will gain

improved working conditions, being

relieved of the burden of continuously

providing latest available Mission Error

Table, MET, and runway data manually,

whereas pilots will enjoy a distinct

high-quality broadcast of ATIS

information whenever they need it.

The implementation of Terma’s ATIS

Flex is an integral part of the CASCADE

(CNS/ATM* Applications Staged

Implementation and Conventional

Airspace Development) project with

the U.S. provider DORS International

Inc. as its principal supplier.

A salient feature of Terma’s ATIS Flex

platform is its flexibility that allows

users to define themselves the

interfaces for easy integration within

existing infrastructure. The flexibility

also ensures convenient customization

of fonts and other features by the

system’s Human Machine Interface,

HMI.

The new platform of this ATIS Flex

system for use at Riga Airport includes

departure clearance and allows for up

to 16 optional services. The HMI is

programmed in Linux, while

applications are based on JavaScript.

ATIS Flex allows for simultaneous

operation in two broadcast languages

and also provides a generation of a

wide range of statistics that are

essential as management tools.

Basic to Terma’s product philosophy is

the extensive use of Commercials Off-

The-Shelf, COTS, that secures low

maintenance costs, a high rate of

reliability, and easy implementation

within customer environments.

Over the next three years,

implementation of the systems and

technologies comprised by the

CASCADE project will bring Latvia’s Air

Traffic Control into full compliance

with the most advanced international

aviation requirements by the

International Civil Aviation

Organization, ICAO and the European

Organization for the Safety of Air

Navigation, EUROCONTROl.

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With Courtesy of NATS

When the new, 87-meter-high control

tower at London Heathrow becomes

operational from 2006, it will be

equipped with Terma’s information

support system, ATC*ISS Tower.

The ATC*ISS System will replace the

existing system in the current 50-year-

old tower at London Heathrow, but the

cut-over will require only little effort by

the ATC controllers; ATC*ISS uses the

same convenient Human Machine

Interface, HMI, as the familiar system,

and will thus require little extra training

before implementation.

Despite the scale of operations at

London Heathrow, the world’s busiest

international airport with 67 million

passengers in 2005, the ATC controllers

in the tower opposite the new Terminal

5 will benefit from software similar to

that of many control centers around the

world – only the data are more real-

time, reflecting the need for high data

update capacity as required by tower

operations.

One of the salient features of ATC*ISS,

as with all products by Terma, is the

high ratio of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf

(COTS) components. Compared to

competitors, Terma is a dedicated user

of COTS components which warrant a

high up-time, a low failure rate, modest

maintenance costs, and over-all

systems reliability and safety. This was

also appreciated by NATS (National Air

Traffic Services) as one crucial

parameter in the decision-making

process.

With a high proportion of verified and

tested COTS components, ATC*ISS

minimizes any risk for malfunctions or

problems in implementation and

integration, which translates into safety

and efficiency. The use of COTS also

entails minimum lead-times from

procurement to implementation.

ATC*ISS builds on an open UNIX-based

client/server systems architecture, and

is easily integrated with existing data

sources and other systems, and with a

user-friendly HMI, the system is readily

customized. This also reduces the

workload to a minimum for the ATC

controller who can then devote full

attention to monitoring the traffic on

the basis of a firm situational overview.

By uniting all existing sources of data

required by the air traffic controller in

an integrated presentation on his work

station, ATC*ISS greatly reduces the

need for equipment within the tower

environment. It also contributes to a

calm and controlled atmosphere and

Terma ATC*ISS for London Heathrow's New Tower

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The ATC*ISS is now in service

with more than 1,000 daily users

at both military and civilian

airports in eight countries


ATC*ISS SYSTEM

ensures that only the latest valid data are

presented to the controller at all times.

Conceived in the early 1990s, and since

being continuously updated and expanded,

the ATC*ISS is now in service with more

than 1,000 daily users at both military and

civilian airports in eight countries, having

proved its value as a cost-efficient and

safety-enhancing ATC tool.

At the ATC Maastricht 2005 exhibition,

Terma received Jane’s Airport Review’s

Industry Award for its Information Support

System, ATC*ISS. The nominees were

selected based on extensive research into

their contributions toward safer skies and

capacity enhancements within the

airspace management industry.

In a recently updated version, ATC*ISS

now displays air traffic load data from the

European Organization for the Safety of Air

Navigation, EUROCONTROL.

The new 87-meter-high control tower at London Heathrow will be equipped with

Terma’s information support system ATC*ISS Tower

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The start of a new era in ATM data display: TP2800 – the Prime LCD Monitor of the 21st CenturyAround the world, many ATC centers

and organizations are still equipped

with the Sony DDM2800 series of

CRT 2K monitors for air traffic

management. But we have reached

the end of an era: the production of

the Sony monitor has ceased, and

users will now increasingly be

looking for a replacement as their

equipment draws closer to the end of

its design life.

The solution, however, is already at

hand. The global provider of ATM

solutions, systems and equipment,

Terma, has introduced a new high-

resolution Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)

for air traffic management. The new

product, TP2800 series 2K display, was

first presented at last year’s ATC

Maastricht exhibition and drew

immediate response. Since then it has

been test-run at several institutions.

Among the first customers to

implement TP2800 as the direct “one-

to-one” replacement of the out-going

Sony DDM2800 are the German Air

Force, and the Civil Aviation Authority,

CAA, in the UAE.

With a 2048 x 2048 pixel TFT LCD

panel by Sharp Corporation of Japan,

this monitor offers superior color

evenness, luminance and sharpness as

well as remarkable viewing comfort.

Electrically and mechanically, the

monitor is fully compatible with the

Sony DDM range of 2K x 2K color

displays.

One-to-one solution

The new display is carefully designed

to yield a quick and trouble-free

replacement of outdated Sony analog

DDM2800 monitors, thereby extending

the service life of any system using

Sony (or compatible) 2K x 2K displays.

Terma can even offer a disposal service

to remove the old Sony DDMs for safe

disposal in accordance with the proper

statutory and environmental

requirements. In addition, your

investment in the 2K x 2K LCD module/

panel can be preserved over the years

as electronics technology advances,

because all major parts of the TP2800

display product are integrated to open

standards and easy to upgrade.

All TP2800 components are

Commercial-Off-The-Shelf items, which

secures spares availability, long-term

support, and cost-efficient operations.

The unit consists of only four Field

Replaceable Units (FRU): LCD panel,

backlight unit, controller board and

external power supply. This, and the

absence of any moving parts, such as

fans, provides a high Mean Time

Between Failure, MTBF, and a low

Mean Time To Repair, MTTR, value.

The TP2800 series monitor comes in

two main versions:

TP2800RA (analog version) TP2800RB

(digital/analog version with Dual DVI

which is DDWG EDDi compliant)

Safety First

Designed for the most safety-critical

environment in the world, air traffic

management, the TP2800 could

rightfully claim to be the world’s safest

monitor. The hardware has been

designed to fail in obvious failure

modes allowing its user to immediately

realize when the displayed information

on the screen is not to be trusted.

Stringent simplicity has been the

supreme design criterion behind the

TP2800, contributing to its safety

record.

Conforming to the safety

recommendation of the leading Civil

Aviation Authority Safety Regulation

Group, the TP2800 displays no menus

or dialogs on-screen. Instead, set-up,

control, and calibration of the display

are executed on a separate laptop or

PDA.

“Seeing is Believing”

Terma has put the utmost efforts into

securing a mission critical system

where maintainability and reliability

rank second only to safety. This

translates into benefits, including an

extended MTBF period exceeding

40,000 hours, a single PCB design

granting fast and easy repairing, use

of standard external power supplies for

high reliability and low costs, and a

low number of FRU to further reduce

fault finding time.

But “seeing is believing” – this goes for

new ATM equipment, too. Therefore,

several CAAs and/or ASNPs around the

world have already completed testing

and evaluating the TP2800, or are in

the process of doing so.


TP2800 LDC MONITOR

The RA (Replacement Analog) version of the TP2800 is designed to be directly mounted in the console after removal of the Sony DDM unit.

Safety Case Study

Terma can provide a safety case study (HAZOP analysis) for the customer when integrating the TP2800 into the customer organization, based on the recommendations by UK Ministry of Defence: “Safety Management Requirements for Defence Systems” [00-56] and “HAZOP Studies on System Containing Programmable Electronics” [00-58].

The safety case study also follows the recommendations in the “Use of Safety Management Systems by ATM Service Providers” [ESARR 3], and “Risk Assessment and Mitigation in ATM” [ESARR 4].


Terma’s SCANTER 2001 Surface Movement Radar,

SMR, in Toulouse Airport

Multiple Surface Movement Radars in A-SMGCS The continued focus on situational

awareness in airports and the cost

inflicted by close-downs of important

transport hubs due to poor visibility,

have made the use of multiple

Surface Movement Radars, SMR,

an ever more urgent demand when

updating or implementing A-SMGCS

(Advanced-Surface Movement

Guidance and Control Systems).

Terma’s SCANTER 2001 has proven its

value as an SMR with more than 60

systems in operation all over the world.

This fact, combined with the radars’

high reliability, good performance and

ability to retain radar coverage even

in heavy rain, has set the standards

for the SMRs in A-SMGCS. Especially

the reasonable price and impressive

resolution compared with the Ku-

band radars have pushed the X-band

SCANTER 2001 forward in the market,

a position that has been sustained

by the use of the High Gain Circularly

Polarized antennas.

The excellent performance combined

with the attractive price will make

airports less sensitive to poor visibility

and severe weather conditions by

installing several SMRs. As it is very

often hard to find a single radar

position where all maneuver areas and

runways are equally well covered, it

results in far better coverage of the

entire airport. Another issue handled

by introducing multi-sensor coverage

in critical areas, is false tracks caused

by a multi-path phenomena due to the

nature of radar radiation. Consequently,

an increasing number of major airports

introduce double radar coverage of the

complete maneuver area, which often

includes more than two SMRs.

Although Terma is acting as a sub-

supplier to the main contractor who

delivers the complete A-SMGCS, our

technical skills and wide experience

is applied during all phases of an

A-SMGCS project, ranging from

participation in site surveys concerning

advice for radar positioning, coverage

calculations, and setting demands

for infrastructure required during the

planning and tendering phase. By

initiating the contact at this very early

state, Terma facilitates that the radar

sensors are used to the best of their


SURFACE MOVEMENT RADARS

ability, thus minimizing the overall

project risks.

Terma's radars are manufactured

from start to finish at our own

manufacturing facilities. Our extended

quality control ensures that the product

fulfils the high-precision requirements

in airports. Furthermore, the fact that

Terma is able to maintain a reasonable

high volume of high-performance,

high-quality radars, means that the

SMR can be offered at an affordable

price.

In the project implementation phase,

Terma manages all radar-related

activities in connection with the

Factory Acceptance, installation and

commissioning of the radar sensor.

Installation is carried out by our own

specially trained field engineers,

ensuring a quick and reliable system

turn-on and final commissioning.

This further enables us to provide an

extended warranty period of three

years.

The commissioning and setting-to-work

of an SMR is a very important phase.

During this phase, the local parameters

are loaded and adjusted in order to

make the radar work optimally on

the specific site and under the local

conditions. In most instances, training

of technical personnel is carried out

immediately after setting-to-work and

on location which ensures that the

end-users' service teams are trained on

their own equipment and in a real-life

environment.

Terma recommends airports to choose

the redundant Terma SCANTER 2001

SMR solutions, ensuring a very high

reliability of the SMR. Combined with

an easy and efficient diagnostic tool

through extensive BITE, Built-in Test

Equipment, and a quick replacement of

line replaceable units, the radar system

is very easy to maintain. Further, Terma

has an efficient logistics organization

providing a short turnaround time.

In this way, the defective parts are

replaced and returned within the

shortest possible time. Terma offers a

maintenance contract to cover any kind

of service needed keeping the radar

working at its optimum through its

entire life. The special service package

may include an annual health check

and other activities.

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TERMA IN BRIEF

Terma develops and markets high-tech solutions, systems,

and products for civilian and military applications.

Terma A/S is headquartered at Lystrup near Århus,

Denmark. Terma is a 100 percent Danish owned company.

Terma’s high-tech solutions and products are developed and

designed for use in extreme mission critical environments and

situations, where human lives and valuable material assets

are at stake.

Terma’s business areas cover:

· Aerostructures for aircraft

· Airborne systems, including

– Self-protection systems for aircraft

– Audio systems solutions

– Reconnaissance systems for fighter aircraft

– Electronics manufacturing

· Integrated systems, including

– Self-protection systems for naval vessels

– Command and control systems for navy, army, and air force applications

· Radar surveillance systems

· Solutions, services, and products for space applications

· Air traffic management systems

· Technical support services.

In Denmark, Terma facilities are located at Lystrup, Grenaa,

and Herlev (Copenhagen).

Terma’s international locations include Leiden, the

Netherlands; Besozzo, Italy; Darmstadt near Frankfurt,

Germany; Washington, DC, and Warner Robins, GA, USA.

Terma A/S was established in 1949. For many years, Terma

has worked closely with defense forces, public authorities,

and international organizations around the world. Through

these relationships, Terma has gained in-depth knowledge of

and insight into our customers’ working environment and an

equally deep understanding of their situations and needs.

Terma is fully owned by the Thomas B. Thrige Foundation.

We Provide Mission Customized Solutions

Terma A/SVasekær 122730 HerlevDenmarkT +45 8743 6000F +45 8743 6001

TERMA UPDATE . FEBRUARY 2006 Editor Kasper Rasmussen, [email protected]

Terma A/SHovmarken 48520 LystrupDenmarkT +45 8743 6000F +45 8743 6001

www.terma.com

USD million 2004/05 2003/04 2002/03 2001/02 2000/01

Sales 202 183 161 170 151

Sales share abroad 163 147 134 99 92

Profit for the year before tax 14 12 10 10 7

Equity Capital, year-end 57 53 52 42 40

Assets, total 167 189 177 156 157

Order intake 189 145 211 179 173

Order book, year-end 228 241 279 228 219

Number of full-time employees– Average for the year 1,034 1,010 945 855 850

Financial Highlights

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