Military must work fast to make its aircraft avionics compatible with NextGen air traffic management system

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The U.S. military has started to investigate how its aircraft could participate in the future air traffic management system known as NextGen, yet defense officials have a long way to go before they can even formulate requirements for NextGen-compatible avionics, much less actually deploy this kind of equipment in its aircraft, experts say.rnThe military has established a NextGen office in the Pentagon, yet is still far behindrncivil developments at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), says Bill Hershey, principal engineer at the MITRE Corp. in Dayton, Ohio. Hershey made his comments in June at the Avionics USA conference and trade show in San Diego.