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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: O. H. Rundell who wrote (5328)	4/7/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

FAA: NEW AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEM TOO SLOW TO USE A new $2.2 billion computer system that's supposed to modernize the nation's aging air traffic control network is so slow in tests that tasks take at least twice as long as on the old equipment. Until it is fixed, the computer system is unsuitable for use at the nation's busiest facilities where it is needed most, Federal Aviation Administration officials say. In FAA tests last month, the system, called STARS, was two to three times slower in displaying aircraft radar positions and responding to air traffic controllers' commands, according to a report obtained by USA TODAY ... FAA Administrator Jane Garvey is expected to announce the future of STARS this month, but the test results make delays more likely ... The upgrade is one of the biggest modernization projects under way in the nation's air traffic control system ... usatoday.com USA TODAY - April 7, 1999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAA CONFIDENT OF Y2K REPAIRS, SAYS 88% DONE WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it was confident its air traffic computers will work correctly at the end of the year, with Year 2000 work already completed on 88 percent of systems ... A critical test of repaired air traffic control computers working together will take place next weekend in the skies over Colorado. Long said he was confident FAA's fixes would hold up in the test and help win public trust. ''We've been saying this for a year. This is our chance to prove it,'' he told reporters. dailynews.yahoo.com Cheryl