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Article: ERAM Delivered of Lockheed Martin.(en route automation modernization)
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- Very Light Jet Report
- Article date:
- October 15, 2007
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared it is on budget and ahead of schedule with a system that will increase capacity by enabling air traffic controllers to track more aircraft at high altitudes. Lockheed Martin, contractor for the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) equipment, delivered the system to the FAA six months ahead of schedule - meeting a major milestone in the FAA's flight plan.
ERAM will be operationally tested at the FAA's William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City before deployment at Salt Lake City in 2008. It will then be added to all 20 Air Route Traffic Control Centers and the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City by ...