Advanced Automation System: Implications of Problems and Recent Changes
(Testimony, 04/13/94, GAO/T-RCED-94-188).

The Advanced Automation System, one component of the Federal Aviation
Administration's (FAA) $36 billion effort to modernize the nation's air
traffic control system, is intended to replace computer hardware and
software, including workstations used by controllers at tower control
facilities.  The automation should help FAA cope with predicted
increases in air traffic and provide operational benefits to users, such
as more fuel-efficient routes. FAA's development of the system has been
plagued from the start by major schedule delays and cost increases.
Although FAA and IBM, the prime contractor, have been trying to overcome
these problems, the problems continue and major changes have been made
to the system.  This testimony highlights (1) the problems confronting
the system, (2) their causes, and (3) the implications of the problems
and changes affecting the system.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-94-188
     TITLE:  Advanced Automation System: Implications of Problems and 
             Recent Changes
      DATE:  04/13/94
   SUBJECT:  Transportation safety
             Safety standards
             Air traffic control systems
             Navigation aids
             Traffic regulation
             Radar equipment
             Air traffic controllers
             Computer software
IDENTIFIER:  FAA En Route Air Traffic Control System
             FAA Advanced Automation System
             FAA Tower Control Computer Complex
             FAA Terminal Advanced Automation System
             FAA Area Control Computer Complex
             FAA Strategic Automation Plan
             FAA Initial Sector Suite System
             
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