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The FAA Improves Response Time and Regulatory Processes
White Paper The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for ensuring the safety of US air travelers. Its responsibilities including incident response, civil air regulations, safety research, and the air traffic control system. [18 Dec 2007]
Team Tools Help Developers Upgrade Mission-Critical Aviation Software
White Paper Airways New Zealand provides important products and services for its home country's aviation system as well as for customers abroad. A client request to update and add features to a key software product called the Staff Utilization Management... [01 Apr 2007]
A Life-Cycle Cost Estimating Methodology for Nasa-Developed Air Traffic Control Decision Support Tools
White Paper There is no one standard methodology and technique that is used by NASA or by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for LCC estimation of prospective Decision Support Tools. This paper describes the development of a Life-Cycle Cost (LCC... [26 Apr 2006]
San Francisco airport secured by 'all seeing CCTV'
News But it is far from a simple question of stopping terrorists - it's more an issue of ensuring the airport operates in a secure manner every day, according to Paul Foster, aviation security manager at San Francisco International airport. [24 Apr 2006]
5 years ago... UK air traffic controllers claim Y2K success
News The aviation authority claims that the systems used to patrol the airspace used by 5,000 flights daily are fully millennium compliant. It said testing work on its systems was completed on nearly 700 operational air traffic control and 170 non... [30 Mar 2004]
Federal Aviation Air Traffic Control Takes Off with Oracle & Dell
White Paper Few jobs require more pinpoint accuracy in the face of schedule-driven complexity and immense amounts of data than commercial air traffic control. The goal is nothing less than a cleanly efficient, highly scalable central clearinghouse for an... [24 Feb 2004]
Integrating the Flight Management System with Air Traffic Control Functions
White Paper Any civil aviation system in the world can independently develop its proprietary ATM functions and incorporate the capabilities of the FMS by communicating in the language of POs. This paper develops the concept, specifies a basic set of POs, and... [24 Feb 2004]
An Object Oriented Analysis of Air Traffic Control
White Paper The Integration and Interaction Laboratory (I-Lab) project is a development program undertaken by the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development of The MITRE Corporation and sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Operations... [14 Aug 2003]
Confusion at 20,000 feet: Typeface to blame
News The controversial font reportedly caused controllers to make the errors, but the Civil Aviation Authority, National Air Traffic Services and the air traffic controllers union all claim passenger safety has not been compromised. [23 May 2002]
NATS gets cash reprieve
News The banks are concerned that their massive combined loan to NATS will wash down the plug hole and have been conferring with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the government about protecting their interests. [20 Feb 2002]
Air traffic control quashes bankruptcy rumours
News However, a spokeswoman from Barclays Capital said: "We are talking to NATS, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the government about sorting out a solution. National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has denied it is facing bankruptcy due to banks... [19 Feb 2002]
Duck and cover: Airlines take over NATS
News Two unions representing aviation workers have warned that the billion pound debt behind today's privatisation of the air traffic control system will endanger passenger safety. Ian Findley, aviation officer with IPMS, said: "There is pressure on the... [30 Jul 2001]
Hackers raise air safety fears
News A congressional report to be published today by the Government Accounting Office concludes that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not performed adequate background checks on engineers employed to perform security checks on systems, nor... [27 Sep 2000]
FAA glitches delay US flights
News Twice last week computer problems in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) traffic control centre caused flight delays in parts of the north-east area of the US; the FAA said the problem has been fixed and it is not believed to have been related... [10 Jan 2000]
Aviation industry holds summit on 'network in the sky'
News Experts from the UK's National Air Traffic Services and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will provide the initial details on trials of the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN). The international aviation industry is gathering... [22 Sep 1999]
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