ATC
FAA Advances NextGen Data Comm, Voice System Acquisitions
At the Air Traffic Control Association conference in October, Wade Stanfield, a Thales ATM operations specialist, explained the ground automation system Thales will provide for airline data comm trials. (Photo: Bill Carey)
At the Air Traffic Control Association conference in October, Wade Stanfield, a Thales ATM operations specialist, explained the ground automation system Thales will provide for airline data comm trials. (Photo: Bill Carey)

The FAA launched the second and third major acquisitions of the NextGen ATC modernization effort, naming Harris both to replace existing point-to-point voice switches with a networked system and to build a nationwide air/ground data communications (data comm) network.