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Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA's Modernization Program

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 3, 1992
Report No. RCED-92-136BR
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Summary:

This briefing report provides information on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control modernization program, which is acquiring radars, computers, and communications networks to make air travel more safe and efficient. Facilities and equipment appropriations, the main source of funding for air traffic control modernization, have risen ten fold, from about $260 million in fiscal year 1982 to almost $2.4 billion 10 years later. FAA is seeking $2.7 billion in its fiscal year 1993 budget request, a 13-percent increase over the fiscal year 1992 appropriation. To assist Congress in its review of the fiscal year 1993 facilities and equipment budget and its continuing oversight of the Aviation System Capital Investment Plan, which is what the air traffic control modernization effort is now called, GAO provides cost and schedule information on the plan as a whole as well as on specific projects.

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