Air Transport Association Testifies That FAA Reauthorization Must Include Acceleration of System Modernization Through ‘NowGen’

PRNewswire -- The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, today testified before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that reauthorization of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs and funding must ensure that air traffic control (ATC) modernization be done early - in the next several years rather than over the next decade - through a suite of key technologies and procedures being called NowGen.