
The FAA has been functioning for roughly more than six years (since 2005) on 23 short-term extensions to the agency's 2004 funding. Projects, including the NextGenair transportation system, have been slow to progress as a direct result of a failure by the U.S. Congress to commit to funding the FAA.
Read the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 online at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt381/pdf/CRPT-112hrpt381.pdf
Members of the avionics industry are speaking out en masse in celebration of the U.S. Senate’s FAA funding decision.