Conference provides more questions than answers on funding for ATC modernization
While speakers at the Air Traffic Control Association’s annual convention in Washington in October discussed a wide range of ATC technologies, both current
While speakers at the Air Traffic Control Association’s annual convention in Washington in October discussed a wide range of ATC technologies, both current and future, several presentations touched on a common underlying theme: where will the money come from?
Funding, of course, has always been vital to ATC improvements, but only at the past few association conventions has it gained increasing attention among industry and government attendees. The old days of the 1980s and 1990s, when program funding appeared to be almost a given, are long gone and with them the FAA’s frequently delayed and often grossly over-budget major projects that regularly drew the ire of Congress.
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