Air Traffic Control

Advanced Automation System Problems Need To Be Addressed Gao ID: T-RCED-93-15 March 10, 1993

The Advanced Automation System, a central component in the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) program to modernize the nation's air traffic control system, involves substantial software development, changes how air traffic controllers use their equipment, and requires FAA to convert from old to new equipment while maintaining the highest safety standards for the traveling public. Given the substantial complexity and cost of the system, GAO believes that FAA management must exercise closer supervision of IBM's progress and address schedule and technical problems in a more timely manner. Recently announced management initiatives must be carried through. Furthermore, in light of problems plaguing the project during the past five years and likely changes in FAA's consolidation plan, GAO believes that FAA should decide whether the current plan for each segment of the system is the most appropriate way to meet the needs of the air traffic control system.



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