The future of aviation requires a more seamless, more efficient, greener global airspace system. As part of this effort, the USA and the European Union signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) on civil aviation research and development in 2011. Achieving interoperability will be the primary focus of this cooperative effort. The industry needs to ensure that the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) and Europe's Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) programmes will work in harmony Ground and airborne equipment may differ by vendor or operationally, but everything must become functionally interoperable. If they aren't, airlines would have to buy one piece of aircraft equipment for an air traffic operation in the USA and buy something different for the same operation by the same aircraft in Europe. That is not acceptable to aircraft operators or for the provision of air navigation services.
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