System Engineering and Integration Contract for Implementation of the National Airspace System Plan. Volume 1. Sections 1.0-4.0, 6.0.
Abstract
When the National Airspace System (NAS) Plan for Facilities, Equipment, and Associated Development was released by the FAA in December 1981, the agency was facing a problem of potentially crisis proportions--that of meeting increasing airspace system demand with dated and deteriorating facilities. At that time, the FAA already had some viable ongoing modernization projects in various stages of planning and development. It was, however, overdue to the extent that airspace system facilities were already being stressed toward capacity, and demanded labor-intensive efforts to sustain aging equipment operation. Consequently, NAS modernization is now faced with over a decade of design, development, replacement, and upgrade activities aggravated by an urgency of completion and an intolerance to error or compromise to safety. The purpose of our audit was to verify the overall goals and objectives of the NAS Plan from the standpoint of technical validity and feasibility, system safety, user benefits, methods, costs, and schedule. In essence, the audit was intended to task and answer the following questions: are the goals and objectives appropriate to satisfy the requirements of both users and operators of the NAS through the year 2000 and beyond; are the planned modernization projects not only technically feasible but valid to satisfy the NAS goals and objectives; will system safety be enhanced through implementation of the modernization projects and uncompromised during the transition to them.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA145763
Entities
Organizations
- Martin Marietta