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In 1981, the FAA began a program to modernize the air traffic control (ATC) system by replacing aging equipment & accommodating predicted growth in air traffic. It has had difficulty for more than two decades in meeting cost, schedule, & performance targets. The performance-based Air Traffic Org. (ATO) was created in 2004 to improve the management of the modernization effort. In Oct. 2004, a panel discussed the factors that have affected FAA's ability to acquire new ATC systems. They identified steps that FAA's ATO could take in the short term to address these factors, as well as longer term steps that could be taken to improve the modernization program's chances of success & help the ATO achieve its mission.
This report is an investigation of the feasibility of using minicomputers in a distributed processing configuration for the Flight Service Station modernization program. It is based on studies of existing distributed processing configurations, many of which were visited by members of the MITRE/FAA distributed processing study team; on information supplied by vendors; and on an analysis of two sample configurations taking into account available data concerning Flight Service Station (FSS) functions. Distributed Processing, as applied to the FSS modernization program, is analyzed with respect to cost, degree of risk, and expected level of performance. Recommendations are given based upon analysis, research, and visits to existing distributed processing installations. (Author).