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Air Traffic Control: FAA's Transition of Communications System to Digital Technology

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 26, 1991
Report No. IMTEC-91-77FS
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Summary:

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recognizes that it needs to eventually convert its communications network to a predominantly digital architecture because of the obsolescence of analog technology. In August 1991, FAA began installing equipment on the Radio Communications Link system to enable the transmission of digital data over digital communications lines, while maintaining the current analog-based system. To plan for the transition to digital architecture, FAA began two contractor studies to (1) design a future all-digital architecture for FAA's communications system and (2) determine when to fully convert the agency's interfacility communications system, including the Radio Communications link, to digital technology.

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