The Senate Appropriations Committee recently voted to give the FAA additional funds for key air traffic control technologies, but expressed concern about the agency’s progress rolling out those systems, according to a report at NextGov.com, which notes that when marking up the 2011 Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill, the committe approved an increase in funding for several programs critical to the rollout of NextGen, FAA’s ambitious plan to replace the existing radar-based air traffic control system with a satellite-based network by 2020.
The bill provides an additional $12 million for the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system, which uses GPS-based technology to transmit a plane’s location to towers and to other aircraft.
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