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At 7:15am this morning I got a call at home... I'm due to brief senior management at 1:30pm today on our proposed R&D plans with the FAA for giant, geographically distributed back-end data servers that would run the US air traffic control system, starting in 2008 or so.

And I hadn't started the pitch yet...

It's about half done now... time to get rolling again. 57 miles, a half tank of gas,and I need sunglasses...

Current Mood: determined
Current Music: The Go-Go's - We Got The Beat

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brian1789.livejournal.com

(smile) thanks... but it is hardly heroic. The eventual system would be built by the FAA in 2008-10 and would cost >US$3B. This is just a proposed R&D program that would hopefully solve the air-traffic-specific data and computing problems (those that we can't assume that industry will have addressed by then).