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FAA Suspends Controller for Watching Movie on Duty

WASHINGTON - An air traffic controller has been suspended for watching a movie when he was supposed to be monitoring aircraft, deepening the Federal Aviation Administration's embarrassment following at least five cases of controllers sleeping on the job. In the latest incident, the controller was watching a movie on a DVD...

FAA Gives Tired Air Traffic Controllers an Extra Hour to Rest

WASHINGTON - The government said Sunday it is giving air traffic controllers an extra hour off between shifts so they don't doze off at work, a problem that stretches back decades. But officials rejected the remedy that sleep experts say would make a real difference: on-the-job napping. "On my watch, controllers will not...

Top Afghan, Pakistan Officials Hold Talks in Kabul

WASHINGTON -- The solution to air traffic controllers dozing on the job will require changes beyond the Federal Aviation Administration's step of adding a second air traffic controller to overnight shifts at more than two dozen airports around the country, aviation safety experts say. Larger safety issues involving the...

FAA Tries to Quell Sleeping Controller Controversy

WASHINGTON -- Publicly fuming, the FAA chief collected Thursday the resignation of the head of the U.S. air traffic system, doubled controller staffing at more than two dozen airports and ordered a sweeping review of the entire system that ensures planes fly safely, as the government sought to reassure the public that air...

FAA Adds Staff After Controllers Caught Sleeping

RENO, Nev. - Federal officials are adding a second overnight air traffic controller at more than two dozen airports around the country, reacting swiftly after a sleeping controller in Reno forced a medical flight to land unaided. The arrival at 2 a.m. Wednesday at Reno-Tahoe International Airport followed several other...

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05/31/12 Plan to update air traffic-control system faces delay Source: Los Banos Enterprise - Los Banos CA A Federal Aviation Administration plan to consolidate hundreds of outdated facilities isn't ready two weeks before a deadline set by Congress, potentially delaying a $40 billion program to modernize the nation's World War II-era air traffic-control system.
05/31/12 Exelis To Provide NextGen Flight Data to ERAU for... Source: AIN Online Under a new agreement, ITT Exelis will provide its real-time integrated NextGen flight-tracking data to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for academic research and analysis at its Daytona Beach, Fla. campus.
05/31/12 Tampa Airports Brace for GOP Convention-bound Traffic Source: AIN Online Private aircraft flying to the Tampa, Fla. area during the Republican National Convention, to be held August 26 to 30, can expect to be confronted with security restrictions similar to a Super Bowl TFR , including a 10-mile-radius "no fly zone" and the need to use gateway airports in nearby Sarasota and Orlando for security screening for flights inbound to Tampa International Airport.
05/30/12 Embry-Riddle to access ITT Exelis flight-tracking data... Source: StockWatch Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) have entered into a licensing agreement for Exelis to provide its real-time, integrated Next Generation flight-tracking data for the university's academic research and analysis.
05/29/12 Probe graft in Army Source: The Pioneer The controversy regarding the procurement of Tatra trucks for the Army has been in the news for some time.