Infrastructure in the News: February 28, 2013
BAF IN THE NEWS:
New York Times: A Pep Talk on Energy Innovation
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/a-pep-talk-on-energy-innovation/
In what might prove to be his last public appearance as energy secretary, Steven Chu delivered a pep talk of sorts on Wednesday to hundreds of entrepreneurs, researchers and others at the ARPA-E conference on energy innovation in suburban Maryland.
NATIONAL NEWS:
New York Times: A.F.L.-C.I.O. Backs Keystone Oil Pipeline, if Indirectly
ORLANDO — The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the nation’s largest federation of unions, has issued an apparent endorsement of the Keystone XL oil pipeline — apparent because it enthusiastically called for expanding the nation’s pipeline system, without specifically mentioning Keystone. And while some union leaders said the federation’s stance stopped short of an official endorsement, the nation’s building trades unions — eager for the thousands of jobs the pipeline would create — issued a statement saying the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s stance was a clear endorsement of the Keystone pipeline.
New York Times: Handling Luggage Problems, From Damage to Delays
The airlines have been bragging about their improved handling of checked luggage recently, based on Department of Transportation data showing that only 3 out of every 1,000 passengers reported a bag lost, delayed, damaged or pilfered in 2012. Although that’s the lowest level of mishandled baggage since the government started collecting reports in 1987, this statistic doesn’t tell the full story.
New York Times: Waze’s Maps Now Change as Roads Close
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/wazes-maps-now-change-as-roads-close/
Even the best map is out of date the minute it is printed. But a new feature from Waze, a mobile app built on information gathered from its users’ phones, will be able to change the app’s maps in real time, reflecting temporary road closings as they happen. Waze’s app automatically gathers information from drivers’ phones about traffic speed, then reroutes other drivers accordingly.
New York Times: National Parks to Get Grants
http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/national-parks-to-get-grants/
National parks, forests and wildlife refuges are to receive $12.5 million in grants to improve access to them while supporting greener travel, according to Ray LaHood, the transportation secretary. One example is a $1,735,000 grant to expand the Rocky Mountain Greenway, a pedestrian and bicycle trail system that will connect the Denver metropolitan area’s trail systems, three national wildlife refuges in the region and Rocky Mountain National Park, above.
Washington Post: Boeing CEO explains 787 battery fix plan to Japanese regulators, airlines
TOKYO — Boeing CEO Ray Conner met with Japan’s transport minister and other officials in Tokyo on Thursday to explain his company’s proposal for resolving problems with the 787 Dreamliner’s lithium-ion batteries that have kept the aircraft grounded for over a month. Conner met with Akihiro Ota, who heads the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and with the director general of the Civil Aviation Bureau, to explain the proposed solution to the problem of the batteries overheating.
Washington Post: AP: Spending cuts could force busy airports to operate fewer runways, FAA chief tells Congress
WASHINGTON — The government has no choice but to furlough air traffic controllers in the event of automatic spending cuts, raising the specter of widespread flight delays and runway closures, the Federal Aviation Administration chief told skeptical Republicans Wednesday. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that one of two control towers at Chicago’s O’Hare international Airport might have to be closed because there will not be enough controllers to meet minimum staffing levels.
Washington Post: Aviation officials, employees bracing for sequester
The looming budget cuts known as the sequester could have a huge impact on air travel, several officials and aviation workers warned Wednesday. This isn’t breaking news, of course. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood appeared at the White House last week to warn about how the sequester could lead to major delays and other assorted havoc.
Washington Post: In first Senate speech, Kaine says Congress should follow example of Va. deal
Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) delivered his maiden floor speech Wednesday, warning his colleagues of the dangers of looming budget cuts and suggesting Congress could follow the dealmaking example just set by Virginia’s General Assembly. Kaine’s address was a rite of passage for every freshman senator but, as he referenced several times, the circumstances were less than ideal; Kaine took to the floor just two days before the sequester is due to hit, triggering automatic reductions in defense and domestic spending.
DC Streets Blog: Rockefeller, Lautenberg Re-Introduce Infrastructure Bank Bill in Senate
These two men are serious about creating an infrastructure bank before they leave office. Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) — both titans of the Commerce Committee, both retiring in 2015 — yesterday re-introduced legislation to create such a bank. Their previous bill died at the end of the last Congressional session.
DC Streets Blog: Could LaHood Stick Around to Oversee the Sequester Crisis?
http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/02/27/could-lahood-stick-around-to-oversee-the-sequester-crisis/
It’s been almost a month since Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced his resignation — and longer than that since he tipped off the president that he was planning his exit — but no replacement has been named yet. They haven’t named an acting secretary and let him go, as happened in the Labor Department when Hilda Solis left.
Washington Post: Do light-rail systems help cut down on traffic? Perhaps not.
If you’re in charge of a city plagued by snarling traffic and endless congestion, one idea is to build a light-rail system for public transportation. More people will ride the trains, leaving fewer cars on the road. Less congestion, less air pollution. What’s not to like? At least, that’s the theory — and cities like Seattle have often tried to sell light-rail expansions on precisely these grounds.
Fast Lane: Guest blogger FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff: Making America a magnet for jobs and manufacturing
If you’re in charge of a city plagued by snarling traffic and endless congestion, one idea is to build a light-rail system for public transportation. More people will ride the trains, leaving fewer cars on the road. Less congestion, less air pollution. What’s not to like? At least, that’s the theory — and cities like Seattle have often tried to sell light-rail expansions on precisely these grounds.
Reuters: Energy policy shifting as abundance replaces scarcity: Obama adviser
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-obama-energy-idUSBRE91R06H20130228
(Reuters) - As U.S. oil and natural gas production booms, the Obama administration's energy policy has been "fluid" by necessity to adapt to the huge economic opportunities and climate challenges posed by growth, the top White House energy and climate adviser said on Wednesday.
STATE NEWS:
Washington Post: Metro’s deputy general manager resigning
The No. 2 executive at Metro said Wednesday that he is leaving the transit agency after a six-year stint. David Kubicek, the deputy general manager for operations, is resigning effective March 18. It will be the second high-level departure for the agency in coming weeks, and it’s unclear what Kubicek, 45, plans to do next.
Washington Post: AP: Wilmington port officials ask legislature for $20M but still favor privatization option
DOVER, Del. — The state board that oversees the Port of Wilmington asked Delaware lawmakers Wednesday for $20 million in the coming fiscal year for capital projects. However, the head of the Diamond State Port Corporation also told lawmakers that the administration of Gov. Jack Markell doesn’t back the funding request.
The Republic: AP: Delaware governor to address economy, schools in meeting with Wilmington Rotary Club
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/31e01bb5af654b13ad1d8ab25c7a9716/DE--Markell-Issues
WILMINGTON, Delaware — Gov. Jack Markell is talking about how to create jobs, improve Delaware's economy and strengthen public schools. Those were among the topics the governor planned to touch on Thursday at a luncheon speech to the Wilmington Rotary Club.
90.9 WBUR: Climate Change Series: The Role Of Transportation
http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2013/02/27/climate-change-series-the-role-of-transportation
The transportation of people and goods from one place to another creates about one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions. Of that, 80 percent comes from cars and trucks. What are the prospects for reducing those emissions? How is global climate change already affecting existing transportation systems?
Transportation Nation: Washington State Admits Bridge Problems Result Of Design Flaw
(Derek Wang – Seattle, KUOW) Washington Secretary of Transportation Paula Hammond said Tuesday that cracks in the pontoons for the state Route 520 floating bridge project were largely the result of a flawed design by the state. The pontoons are the floating part of the 520 bridge across Lake Washington, the longest floating bridge in the world.
The Berkshire Eagle (Associated Press Reprint): Governor Devel Patrick renews push for infrastructure, education upgrades
BOSTON -- Acknowledging resistance to proposed tax changes that would raise nearly $2 billion in new revenue, Gov. Deval Patrick on Wednesday launched a new push to sell lawmakers on his plan to significantly boost funding for transportation and education.
Politico: Morning Transportation
By Burgess Everett and Adam Snider Featuring Scott Wong
2/28/13
SENATE-QUESTER: The upper chamber will vote today on Democratic and Republican alternatives to the sequester today, but both versions are expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed, our colleague David Rogers reports. The GOP plan — pioneered by Pat Toomey — would let President Barack Obama come up with alternative cuts by March 15. Democrats have a mix of taxes and other spending cuts in their version. The Rogers report: http://politi.co/YBqeGF
MEMBERS TALK SEQUESTER — Lipinski: MT chatted with a bipartisan trio of T&I pols to gauge their sequester-fever — and they all said the cuts will likely happen. Dan Lipinski, who was at the T&I hearing with FAA Administrator Michael Huerta (more on that below), said it was clear that nothing is set in stone. “It’s hard to know what exactly the impact will be. Certainly there will be some impact,” he told MT. “It was pretty clear from the administrator’s testimony that the final decisions have not yet been made on what exactly the FAA is going to do. They’re going to have to make some cutbacks but we still don’t know exactly what they’re going to be.”
Nick Rahall: The top T&I Democrat said that sequestration “has terrible consequences, and it’s a terrible way to run our country.” Then he whipped out a line he’s been using back in West Virginia as well: “It’s like sliding on ice, you don’t hit the brakes all the sudden or you’re going to spin further out of control. You’ve got to apply the brakes gradually.”
Richard Hanna: “It feels like it’s going to happen. Other than that I have no comment on it,” he said. But MT pressed ahead and asked about the allegations that the administration is overblowing the effects, to which he replied: “I think that depends on your perspective. If you’re the person who gets laid off, then you’re not overblowing it. This is serious stuff and it was avoidable and unnecessary, so whatever damage comes is completely self-created.” In short, according to the sophomore lawmaker: “There’s no good side to this.”
ALL SEQUESTER ALL THE TIME: House Republicans remain skeptical that the sequester poses a major threat to air travel, even after Huerta appeared in person to lay out the reasons the Obama administration says it can’t blunt the impact of the cuts. Sam Graves may have best summed up GOP frustration with the administration's days of alarms that the automatic cuts will mean canceled flights, long security lines and dozens of control tower shutdowns … and a return to 2008 spending levels. “I don’t mean to belabor this, but you’re not going back that far. The sky isn’t falling,” Graves said. “I don’t understand why it is the administration continues to take this attitude that the world is absolutely falling apart because of this.”
Huerta pushback: House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster and Aviation head Frank LoBiondo also remained unconvinced that FAA can’t avoid air traffic controller furloughs by making other cuts elsewhere. But Huerta pushed back. “We don’t agree with that. And here is why: I mentioned that there's been a lot of discussion about the contracts and consultants line items,” Huerta said. “A very large portion of that is tied up in core systems.”
Worse than a shutdown: Here’s something that might alarm veterans of FAA budget battles. Huerta said the sequester’s impacts on aviation are worse than the 2011 partial shutdown. Why? “It’s because it hits every major program project or account of FAA. In 2011, remember, it only hit the facilities and equipment account and the [Airport Improvement Program] account,” he told reporters following the hearing. “We had the ability to exempt essential personnel.” That was tough for Lipinski to stomach. “It’s amazing to me that the sequester would actually be worse for the flying public than a government shutdown,” Lipinski said. Burgess for Pros: http://politico.pro/13lhme4
Help is on the way: Huerta says he’s going to get some help at the top of the agency soon. “We’re well along the way to selecting a deputy administrator, and that person will be the chief NextGen officer,” Huerta said.
MT BONUS COVERAGE — Bucshon says Huerta’s ‘no dummy’: Rep. Larry Bucshon tried his darndest to get Huerta to bite on a question surrounding cost overruns on the NextGen program during the hearing, citing numbers that show $4 billion in overruns that Huerta said he wasn’t familiar with. “They’re already $4 billion over in all the NextGen stuff without furloughing anybody or closing towers. I think it’s politics, I really do.” MT said that Bucshon seemed frustrated that Huerta dodged on that question. “He knows that if he answers the question, it totally debunks the argument he’s trying to make. He knows that; he’s no dummy. He knows that if he says well, yeah, we’re $4 billion over and he agrees to that, then he knows this whole argument the administration is trying to make about closing towers and furloughing people is bunk.” Bucshon said he suspects that Huerta was briefed by the White House before the hearing. Check him out trying to pin down the administrator at the hearing: http://bit.ly/Wjp9Hz
‘RECKLESS’ CUTS: NATCA President Paul Rinaldi said that the sequester’s lack of differentiation between essential and nonessential personnel is “reckless.” Speaking at the AeroClub luncheon just two days before the automatic cuts kick in, Rinaldi said the FAA has little flexibility to move money to avoid cuts to air traffic controllers, a view House Republicans don’t hold. “They have very limited, if any, discretion on what they can cut,” Rinaldi said. “There just simply is not that much fat in the FAA operations budget to cut.” The cuts could be “permanent and almost impossible to reverse,” Rinaldi added. He also said that the impacts will be felt on April 7 because FAA must give 30 days’ notice for employee furloughs, and those notices will not be sent until after the spending cuts have taken effect.
Report on the report: NATCA’s long-awaited report found the FAA’s operations, including air traffic controllers, will see a cut of $493 million over the rest of the fiscal year, while facilities and equipment would take a hit of $142 million and research would be slashed $8.6 million. When those cuts, which will result in furloughs, “are fully implemented in April, the FAA’s estimates could turn out to be conservative,” according to the report. Read it here: http://bit.ly/ZAjucU
And then: Not long after Rinaldi’s speech, NATCA sent out some specifics on what would happen at some of the country’s biggest and busiest airports. The data includes current flight numbers along with the reductions from sequestration. Check it out: http://bit.ly/XH0bMX
POWER OF THE PURSE: Republicans are worried a sequester aversion could cede the legislative branch’s constitutional power of the purse to Obama, our colleagues Jake Sherman and Jonathan Allen report. MT has heard similar complaints about the TIGER program from some GOP members. http://politi.co/15k6f3i
LEST WE FORGET: Aviation is taking the vast majority of the transpo-quester coverage, but the cuts spell problems on the maritime side, as well, T&I coast guard subcommittee top Dem John Garamendi reminds us. http://1.usa.gov/VbKQHH
MT SEMI-SCOOP — That’ll cost ya: ATA will say today that FMCSA’s recent rejection of its request to put off new hours of service rules is “a costly error” — to the tune of $320 million between now and July 1. “At a time of rising diesel prices, increased equipment and labor costs, the decision by the head of FMCSA to reject a reasonable request for a brief delay in enforcing this rule is unbelievable,” President and CEO Bill Graves will say in a statement today. Check out the release (http://bit.ly/YG1a3t) and a letter from ATA to FMCSA (http://bit.ly/Wipqu7).
PRIMARY MY T&I MEMBER: The Club for Growth has a new website — www.primarymycongressman.com — that targets what it dubs RINOs. Two of the nine members listed so far — Reps. Rick Crawford and Larry Bucshon — are T&I members and have last year’s transportation bill vote scored against them. Crawford’s section notes that he “also opposed limiting spending in the Highway bill to just gas tax receipts, despite the fact that the Highway trust fund has needed repeated bailouts to cover its bloated spending budget.”
LaHOOD URGES LOBBYING: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is calling on AASHTO members to lobby lawmakers to avert the sequester, even though transportation projects funded by the Highway Trust Fund would not be impacted by the budget cuts. “As you go up to Capitol Hill in the next day or so, even though you may not be impacted by sequester, your colleagues in other transportation venues are,” LaHood said at AASHTO’s 2013 Washington Briefing. “We’re all in this together. And even though you’re not feeling a pinch or a cut or a reduction, there are a lot of other modes of transportation that are.”
Still buddies: Scott asked LaHood about Sen. John McCain and other Republicans accusing him of fear-mongering and saying “shame on Ray LaHood” on the Sunday shows. LaHood didn’t bite: “There is nobody I respect more than Sen. McCain. He is somebody that I’ve respected and will continue to respect. I count him as a friend. I think he is as frustrated as the rest of us are about where we’re at” in solving the sequester. Asked if he had any advice for his DOT successor, LaHood replied: “Get along with Congress.”
IT’S BACK — Dreamliner news: Rep. Rick Larsen joked to MT on Tuesday that people have forgotten all about the Dreamliner as the sequester looms, but he sure hasn’t. Larsen asked Huerta about “conflicting” media reports about Boeing getting the go-ahead to do more test flights. Huerta said it’s not true: “We haven’t received an application for further test flights,” Huerta said. Huerta also drew some parallels to the 1996 TWA explosion when pressed on identifying a “root cause” for the Dreamliner battery fires. “That was caused by a spark in the fuel tank. To this day, there is no root cause that has been identified in an engineering sense,” Huerta said. “Ultimately, what the industry came around to, and what we ultimately required, was an ignition system to ensure that you can't have an explosive environment. So effectively, we never identified a root cause, but we mitigated the whole universe of things so that it couldn’t blow up,” he said. Read more from Burgess, including a rough outline of the solution Boeing submitted to Huerta: http://politico.pro/VOg5Yz
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CABOOSE — Headwarming Metro: There sure can be some hotheads on the Metro during rush hour. But now you can keep your head hot with the Metro on it. Michael Perkins has knit some hats featuring the familiar rail map — including the Rush Plus changes and the Silver Line extension — and he was kind enough to provide a pattern to Greater Greater Washington. Give it a look: http://bit.ly/15Rr1sc
- Teamsters, safety groups also write to oppose hiking truck weight and size limits. Letter:http://bit.ly/Y3L0iU
- Inspector general begins FRA audit of 2008 passenger rail law. http://1.usa.gov/YFV7vz
- House THUD Chairman Tom Latham wrote supporters to tell them that he won’t be running for Tom Harkin’s Senate seat in 2014. His message: http://bit.ly/YFy8Ri
Politico Pro: FAA's sequester talk leaves GOP unmoved
By Burgess Everett
2/27/13
House Republicans remain skeptical that the sequester poses a major threat to air travel, even after the Federal Aviation Administration’s chief appeared in person Wednesday to lay out the reasons the Obama administration says it can’t blunt the impact of the cuts.
Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) may have best summed up GOP frustration with the administration's days of alarms that the automatic cuts will mean canceled flights, long security lines and dozens of control tower shutdowns.
The senior Transportation and Infrastructure Committee member asked FAA Administrator Michael Huerta what year of spending levels the sequester’s cuts would send the FAA back to. Huerta told him 2008, which didn’t sound so bad to Graves. He said the administration’s messaging and insistence that controllers will be furloughed “baffles” him.
“I don’t mean to belabor this, but you’re not going back that far. The sky isn’t falling,” Graves said. “I don’t understand why it is the administration continues to take this attitude that the world is absolutely falling apart because of this.”
House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.) also remained unconvinced.
Shuster asked why Huerta could not find enough savings out of the Air Traffic Organization’s $7.4 billion budget to soften the sequester’s more than $600 million in cuts on the FAA. Shuster has suggested that the FAA could look at travel and contracting expenses, and he asked plainly if Huerta thought he could rejigger FAA accounts to evade cuts to the front lines.
Huerta said no and expanded on his disagreement with the chairman when talking to reporters following the hearing.
“We don’t agree with that. And here is why: I mentioned that there's been a lot of discussion about the contracts and consultants line items,” Huerta said. “A very large portion of that is tied up in core systems.”
Huerta explained to the committee that two of the three largest contracting accounts are for technology that is the “backbone” of communication among controllers, as well as money spent to contract out towers. Of the 238 towers that could close, 189 are run by contractors. That means the very contracts the GOP wants FAA to consider cutting carry out some of the same core functions the Republicans want the agency to preserve.
That means there just isn’t a lot of wiggle room, Huerta said, adding that the FAA is still working with the goal to “minimize” the sequester cuts on the traveling public.
One approach being whispered about in the halls of the Capitol is whether legislation can be passed that halves the sequester cuts by also raising some revenue. If the more than $600 million in FAA cuts is halved, asked Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), would that be enough to stop air-traffic controller furloughs?
“Right now, our planning is at the $600 million level. We haven’t seen an alternative to that,” Huerta said.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) suggested that maybe FAA should cut its program to integrate drones into the airspace. Huerta took an “IOU” and said he would follow up on how much money is spent on that effort, but Massie was trying to make a point. The committee freshman said he gets “hundreds” of calls from constituents, and none of them are from people urging him to make sure drones get airborne as quickly as possible.
Potential cuts at his Northern Kentucky airport, however, are a different matter.
“None of the constituents in my district have called me and said we need to integrate unmanned aircraft today, but they all care about passenger air travel,” Massie said.
One thing members were all trying to dig into is precisely how many flights would be cut and where.
Huerta said that “it’s a little early to tell” how many flights will be canceled by airlines should sequestration take effect. But Huerta said he’s met with airlines, which suggested that international flights that depart or arrive in the middle of the night could be affected should overnight facility closures take effect, as could quicker connections that airlines try to schedule by “banking” flights together during peak periods.
“They need to consider the trade-off of frequency versus reliability,” Huerta said.
The message from the administrator seemed particularly shocking to Democratic veterans of the epic saga regarding the FAA’s funding, which hit a low point in 2011 during a two-week partial shutdown. Huerta said the sequester cuts to aviation are actually worse than the effects of that high-profile partisan impasse.
“It’s because it hits every major program project or account of FAA. In 2011, remember, it only hit the facilities and equipment account and the [Airport Improvement Program] account,” he told reporters following the hearing. “We had the ability to exempt essential personnel.”
Not so with the sequester, which was tough for Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) to stomach.
“It’s amazing to me that the sequester would actually be worse for the flying public than a government shutdown,” Lipinski observed.
At Chicago’s massive O’Hare Airport, one of the two towers might have to be shut down during bad weather as a part of the sequester, Huerta said. That means that even with the FAA’s wide-net approach of shuttering low-traffic air-traffic control facilities, major airports in Chicago, Atlanta and New York all might see slowdowns in air traffic anyway.
And the small facility approach isn’t making everyone happy. House Transportation ranking member Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) said he fears that rural airports — like those in his state — are going to get the shaft.
“The needs of rural America could be put aside as the FAA struggles to keep up with demand,” Rahall lamented.
Politico Pro: Murkowski still may block Jewell over road dispute
By Andrew Restuccia
2/27/13
After meeting with Sally Jewell on Wednesday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she's still prepared to hold up Jewell's nomination as Interior secretary if outgoing Secretary Ken Salazar doesn’t green-light a 10-mile rural road in southwestern Alaska.
Murkowski said she and Jewell had a “direct” discussion about the Alaska Republican's frustration with the department's stance on the road, which would connect the Aleutian village of King Cove to an all-weather airport.
“This is an issue that I will not back down from,” Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told reporters at a news conference
Murkowski has previously said she's considering blocking Jewell’s nomination over the decision earlier this month by Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service to deny permission for the road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Murkowski argues that the road is needed to provide access to medical care for hundreds of people.
“I do not want to put a hold on your nomination, but you need to realize how important this is,” Murkowski said she told Jewell during the 90-minute meeting Wednesday morning.
Murkowski was joined at the news conference by King Cove residents, who will meet with Salazar on Thursday. They hope to persuade Salazar to approve the road.
“It is my hope that the secretary will do the right thing and it’s moot. If it’s not moot, we’re going to look at next steps,” Murkowski said. “I’ve said I’ll use every tool in the toolbox. A hold on the nomination is absolutely a tool. You don’t want to threaten, but it sure has taken a lot to get the attention of the administration.”
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Michael Huerta, Federal Aviation Administrator, October 3, 2012 Get The Facts
“Technology is driving a transformation in how we control and manage air traffic. This transformation to NextGen will be dominated by interdependence, and it will come about because of collaboration. ….NextGen runs on a philosophy that’s different from the way we have been handling air traffic for the last 50 years.”
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