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ITT takes leading role in devising next-gen ATM
You could be forgiven for thinking that the best part of a generation has been expended in talking up the promised benefits of the U.S.

You could be forgiven for thinking that the best part of a generation has been expended in talking up the promised benefits of the U.S. NextGen air traffic management system. But, like its counterpart Single European Sky program over here, NextGen is now becoming a reality and the ITT group is a big part of this reality. In May, along with Boeing and General Dynamics, it shared in a $4.4 billion contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to start making the NextGen infrastructure come alive.

ITT’s share of the Systems Engineering 2020 program will be worth $1.4 billion over the next 10 years. “SE2020 is not so much a building program as a systems engineering effort,” explained Mike Wilson, president of ITT Information Systems. “We are going to help the government to tackle some of the technical puzzles and to validate the new technologies and procedures.”