Expediting an Improved Performance
Based NAS: The Rationale for Accelerating Avionics Equipage
December 2005
Kent V. Hollinger, The MITRE Corporation
Marc Narkus-Kramer, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
Over the years, the FAA has introduced many new technologies into the
National Airspace System (NAS) that have offered safety, capacity and/or efficiency
improvements. However, since a number of users were often not equipped to take advantage
of the new technologies, the older existing systems were continued in parallel.
This has resulted in a NAS with several redundant and often obsolete systems still in operation.
The operation of these multiple systems has caused FAA costs to grow at an ever increasing
rate and has denied the full expected benefits to the users. Additionally, mixed
aircraft equipage often results in tailoring operations to the least capable user, thus preventing
operations that can reduce controller costs and provide user benefits.
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