At recent public hearings in Washington, D.C., and Albuquerque, N.M., DOD and DOT representatives reviewed the departments’ policies toward the provision of radionavigation services to the U.S. civil user community between now and 2020. The hearings were held to solicit user comments on those policies before publication of this year’s federal radionavigation plan (FRP), which will be available by year-end.
The FRP is produced jointly by the DOD and DOT, and provides a current “snapshot” of how the two departments and their agencies, such as the FAA, Coast Guard, the National Highway Administration and others view the nation’s future navigation needs, and how they intend to meet these needs. In bureaucratic language, the annual FRP is a “living document,” reflecting expected developments in navigation technology, coupled with official perceptions of the likely decline in use of earlier systems and their projected termination dates.
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