Air Traffic Control (ATF): Good Progress on Interim Replacement for Outage-Plagued System, But Risks Can Be Further Reduced

Download or read book Air Traffic Control (ATF): Good Progress on Interim Replacement for Outage-Plagued System, But Risks Can Be Further Reduced written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last year, certain Air Traffic Control centers have experienced a series of major outages, some of which were caused by the Display Channel Complex (DCC) -- a mainframe computer system that processes radar and other data into displayable images on controllers' screens. This report determines: the portion of the outages experienced at the 5 DCC-equipped en route centers that were attributable to DCC; whether DCC was meeting its system availability requirement; and FAA's projections of future DCC outages and availability. Charts and tables.