The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.
As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
The American Jobs Act includes an immediate investment in employing construction workers to restore 150 miles of runway at American airports and put in place a next-generation air-traffic control system to reduce travel time and delays.
For the JAGM contract, Lockheed provides a 27-month technology development program that includes design, test and demonstration of joint air-to-ground missile system that significantly enhances warfighters operational flexibility and combat effectiveness.
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According to Allen and his partners, this air-launch-to-orbit system is far less expensive and far more flexible than traditional ground launches, which are still used by some private companies for satellite launches.
Murphy says the original design plans were recently discovered, showing how the property was rigged with 200-kilowatt generators, massive air-intake tunnels and a custom ventilation system to be used in the face of disaster.
The Patriot is an advanced surface-to-air missile system intended to defend against aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.
And Syria's army has not so far managed to buy the air-defence system from Russia that it would like.
One Pentagon official said that since early January, a team including 200 industry experts and scientists had worked furiously to modify the Aegis air-defense missile system so it could shoot down the satellite.
To this end, Aerovironment is working on a system of miniature gyroscopes and air-flow detectors to measure Black Widow's speed and rate of turn.
It carried its own air-conditioning system, to prevent batteries from getting too cold or too hot.
And Congress is torn over a bill that would help fund a satellite-based air traffic control system to ease aerial bottlenecks.
Any restaurant using the mid-air messaging system is unlikely to be happy with it being co-opted by patrons complaining about poor service.
To cope with air pollution in China, artist Matt Hope produced a "Breathing Bike, " that consists of a fighter pilot's breathing mask attached to a pedal-powered air filtration system.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Delta Air Lines announced plans Thursday to reduce its system capacity by 10 percent as compared to 2008, due to declining revenues.
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As the battle over funding the Federal Aviation Administration and upgrading the nation's air-traffic control system comes to a head, anyone with anything to do with airlines is scrambling to get aboard.
Last year , at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, computer scientist Andrei Costin discussed weaknesses he said he found in a new U.S. air-traffic security system set to roll out next year.
Better, maybe (surely?), to put more money into updating the air-traffic-control system.
The resources required of the air-traffic control and airport system to fly a chief executive in his jet are the same required to fly a 767 full of passengers.
Britain, France and Italy, having recently decided, after years of dithering, not to build a frigate together, still hope to produce a joint sea-based air-defence system which would have some capacity against missiles.
This will require immediately expanding the number of Navy ships with the Aegis fleet air defense system that are equipped to intercept ship-launched ballistic missiles.
By sucking 55-degree heat out of the ground and concentrating it, the heat pump is able to deliver 110-degree heat into the warm air ducts of a central heating system.
The model that Mr Smith cooked up at Yale, based on a hub-and-spoke system of overnight air delivery, has since expanded to encompass a broad portfolio of businesses contributing to efficient supply chains.
Smith says that by subcontracting some of the work abroad--for example, the intake manifold in a car's air system--these contractors can add 20 points to that gross margin, and that's after paying Smith his fee of 5% to 7% of the foreign invoices.
To ensure good air quality inside, it has both an air-exchange system and a geothermal system that have filtration.
Depending on the results of both checks, the system would assign a risk score to air travelers -- acceptable, unknown, or unacceptable.
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Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.
He said he was determined to "face up to the necessity of reform", an example of which is the part-privatisation of the National Air Traffic Control System (Nats) to be debated by the Commons on Tuesday.
However, with the number of US passengers set to rise to one billion per year by 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is planning a move to a new satellite-based system, called Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen.
What's more, the Patuxent River is only 75 yds. away, and the fish--with an air sac in its digestive system that allows it to absorb oxygen, and the ability to flop its way across small stretches of muddy land--could soon wriggle into the nation's waterways.
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