Harris makes communications products such as satellite and other wireless networks, transcommunication equipment, air control systems, and mobile radio network systems.
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Aviation experts contend that even if intruders were able to access a control tower and disrupt operations, the nation's air traffic control system is designed with multiple back-ups so that other facilities could pick up control of the affected air space.
Like many projects in air-travel modernization, there's a chicken-and-egg question: Should airlines spend money on equipment before air-traffic control agencies prove they can work with it, or should air-traffic control service providers spend first and then wait for airlines to catch up?
Air traffic control suggested Dobbins Air Force Base, about 20 miles (32 km) east, as a possible landing site, but it was beyond reach.
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How in the world can our air traffic control system survive if air controllers are working ten percent fewer hours?
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Air force personnel control civilian air traffic, and a general oversees the main intelligence agency.
Among the most dramatic of Bush's proposals is a fee that the Federal Aviation Administration would charge airlines to help pay for new air traffic control services, which are becoming strained by an increasing volume of air traffic.
The statement points out that many FAA air traffic control facilities are inside airport security areas.
Any flight outside of these very tight parameters requires permission from the air traffic control.
He was speaking after talks with Eurocontrol, which co-ordinates air traffic control in 38 nations.
By the runway, a brand new air traffic control tower needed to be built.
Air traffic control grants the request, and I point the airplane's nose over Lake Erie.
Usually smooth on the radio, I boot my first call to air traffic control.
Suddenly I have an inspiration: Ask air traffic control (ATC) to be diverted to Minneapolis.
It's airlines versus corporate jets in a Capitol Hill dogfight over the air traffic control system.
Air traffic was growing, and the air traffic control (ATC) system couldn't handle the swelling volume.
"It's like air traffic control on water, " says Geir Karlsen, BP's expert on such operations.
Contract controllers are a widely used but little-known part of the FAA's air traffic control system.
Hackers and security researchers have warned for years of vulnerabilities in next-generation air traffic control protocols.
Holding a controller in each hand, players throw punches into the air to control the on-screen action.
The Bureau of Labor, in its occupational projections, advises young people against careers in air traffic control.
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It is hard to imagine the air traffic control system functioning with its budget cut by 15 percent.
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Even with ADS-B, jets will be restricted to narrow lanes to reduce the complexity of air traffic control.
Air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.net captured Tuesday's incident as the the wide body was on the taxiway.
Contact with Flight KQ507 was lost by air traffic control shortly after take-off at 0005 local time (0105 GMT).
"Weather is the great equalizer in the air traffic control system, " Church said.
Airports and air traffic control are able to run more efficiently as more planes arrive and depart on schedule.
One of the FAA's major projects during the next five years is to revamp the air traffic control system.
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