FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space

Re:FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space by eksu on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:58PM (#12534218)

What needs to be modernized?

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Re:FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space by DannyBee on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:04PM (#12534256)

ATC.

https://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/default/files/WEB_ATC_Mod_4-14...

Basically, FAA's nextgen project has been some big dig level crap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig for those not familiar)

They've been trying to figure this out for almost 3 decades (though publicly, the current incarnation only started to have a joint planning office in 2003, and so they try to pretend that's when they started).

They currently don't expect to finish until 2030. AFAIK it'll have been ~50 years for a technology modernization project.

(I actually don't know all the details, so if someone wants to come along and say "it's not that bad", great!)

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Re:FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space by arma26 on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:29PM (#12534429)

DEFCON 20: Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXv1j3GbgLk

Good watch if you wanna see how naively designed the whole thing is.

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