Air Traffic Control: Good Progress on Interim Replacement for Outage-Plagued System, but Risks Can Be Further Reduced

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Year: 1996
Pages: 37
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0788140736

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Randolph C. Hite, Keith A. Rhodes & Heather W. McIntyre. During the last year, certain Air Traffic Control centers have experienced a series of major outages, some of which were caused by the Display Channel Complex (DCC) -- a mainframe computer system that processes radar & other data into displayable images on controllers’ screens. This report determines: the portion of the outages experienced at the 5 DCC-equipped en route centers that were attributable to DCC; whether DCC was meeting its system availability requirement; & FAA’s projections of future DCC outages & availability. Charts & tables.

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