IBM - Air Traffic Control - GAO Rpt - FYI

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available from General Accounting Office POB 6015 Gaithersburg, MD 20877
First copy is free, thereafter its $2.00
   
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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