Air Traffic Control Restructuring

摘要

It seems that about every 10 years, Congress gets energized about restructuring air traffic control. We are now in the midst of this decade's efforts, and there is evident momentum. We may not succeed, though. If we fail this time, no doubt the efforts will be repeated again a decade from now, at which time our current NextGen implementations will then be running technology that is more than 20 years old. We can always start the "next NextGen," but we might not be able to regain the global technical leadership in ATC that will have been forfeited if we do not seize the current opportunity.