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- From: at507@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim M. Bowden)
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- Subject: IBM - Air Traffic Control - GAO Rpt - FYI
- Date: 13 Dec 1992 05:03:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- available from General Accounting Office POB 6015 Gaithersburg, MD 20877
- First copy is free, thereafter its $2.00
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- Air Traffic Control: Advanced Automation System Still Vulnerable to
- Cost and Schedule Problems. GAO/RCED-92-264, Sep 18. 16 pages.
- During the past decade, substantial cost growth and schedule delays
- have beset the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Advanced
- Automation System, a $5-billion project to replace and enhance the
- work stations and computer systems used by air traffic controllers.
- FAA originally estimated in 1983 that the automation system would cost
- $2.5 billion and be completed in 1996. Since then, completion costs have
- doubled and the schedule has slipped by six years because FAA under-
- estimated the effort required to develop and implement the system. The
- upshot is that air traffic controllers continue to use 20-year-old
- equipment, a situation that reduces the margin of safety in the air
- traffic control system. Delays in implementing the automation system
- have also deferred benefits for users of the air traffic control system,
- such as savings in fuel cost for airlines arising from better routing
- capabilities. Although FAA has taken positive steps to improve the
- automation system, such as developing a demonstration facility to gain
- an early assessment of controllers' and technicians' concerns, the
- project still remains vulnerable to further cost increases and schedule
- delays.
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- All typos are my error. The first project - is being done by
- IBM and CSC in Rockville, MD using Rational development machines (
- about 20 I believe) using the Ada programming language.
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