From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 13 Dec 92 05:03:44 GMT From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!at507@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jim M. Bowden) Subject: IBM - Air Traffic Control - GAO Rpt - FYI Message-ID: <1geg7hINN60f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> List-Id: 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. ---- 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. jim => Dayton iijq500@indyvax.iupui.edu