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new equipment, procedures, atc training, corporate culture and on and on.hange means the same old ways of doing business will not work looking forward. change requires strong faa leadership. change requires moving towards a more nimble corporate model that is able and willing to make tough decisions in a timely manner and then execute on them. our panel today will look at nextgen, the good, the bad and the ugly. we'll discuss where we've been, how we got there, where we need to go and the impacts on various segments of our industry and the lessons we've learned along the way. let me give you a little reference point for the reason i chose the word potholes in the title. i grew up upstate, up near new york city. and whenever we would have to drive anywhere, we would basically have to have a bucket full of coins to go through all the toll booths, right? it was a tedious process going from toll booth to toll booth to toll both. throw on top of that an accident or traffic delay and it was a tedious thing. now i can get in my car here in washington, d.c., have a

and it really -- the mandate had been a driver, a strong driver of the atc modernization side. so we look at -- there's currently -- it's embarrassing to admit that we have 98 facilities that still currently use monochromatic radar screens. and so we send our young -- our best and brightest individuals through universities, these incredible labs that have 360-degree, equivalent to a motion-based high category simulator, and then deploy them to a facility and say, by the way, here's your black-and-white tv. it is a monumental lift to force in one second updates that adsb will provide into the automation systems. it is way harder than we thought it would be. we're certainly on pace to not only meet that, but be well ahead of it. and the result of that will bear fruit in many different areas. one example would be the tension, the constant tension between radar surveillance and route structure. could we put routes closer together. we have to think about 1 million-pound plane flying at -- we don't want to get too close. one-second updates and what we call fusion now, where you look

it really -- the mandate has been a driver, a strong driver of the atc modernization side. we look at -- there's currently -- it's embarrassing to admit that we have 98 facilities that still currently use monochromatic radar screens. so we send our young -- our best and brightest individuals through universities and these incredible labs that have 360-degree -- the equivalent to a high category simulator. and then we deploy them to a facility that says here is your black and white tv. so it is a monumental lift to force in one second updates that it will provide into the atc automation systems. it's way harder than we thought it would be. we are on pace to not only meet that but be well ahead of it. and the result of that will bare fruit in many different areas. example would be the constant tension between radar surveillance and root structure. can we put roots closer together? you think about a million pound airplane flying at 500 knots. you don't want to get too close. you could be. one second updates and what we call fusion now where you start to look at areas of terrai

. >> and it had been four hours since atc had last spoken with the cockpit.ainful to think about. that four hours later, no one's looking yet. >> as precious hours pass, time is running out. while flight 370 flies further and further over one of the world's largest oceans. >>> coming up, what happened onboard flight 370? >> we do not know what the perpetrator are, we will never know the reasons why, but definitely there's a human hand involved. [light instrumental music] ♪ female announcer: recycle your old fridge and get $50. schedule your free pickup at: >>> in the pitch black darkness, an hour after its last radio contact, the malaysian military spots a plane where no plane should be in the middle of the night. they don't yet know if it is mh-370. >> if you see a primary unidentified return flying toward your country at 500-plus knots, that should raise concerns very quickly. >> but it didn't seem to. by now, the 7777 is believed to be hundreds of miles off its original course. >> we don't know what's normal for their military. i think a big part of the pr

. >> and it had been four hours since atc had last spoken with the cockpit. >> that just is so painfulo think about, that four hours later, no one is looking at it. >> as precious hours pass, time is running out. while flight 370 flies further and further over one of the world's largest oceans. coming up, what happened on board flight 370? >> we do not know who the perpetrator are. we will never know the reasons why. but definitely there is a human hand involved. you need to see this. show 'em the curve. ♪ do you know what this means? the greater the curvature, the bigger the difference. [sci-fi tractor beam sound] ...sucked me right in... it's beautiful. gotta admit one thing... ...can't beat the view. ♪ introducing the world's first curved ultra high definition television from samsung. it's a fresh approach on education-- superintendent of public instruction tom torlakson's blueprint for great schools. torlakson's blueprint outlines how investing in our schools will reduce class sizes, bring back music and art, and provide a well-rounded education. and torlakson's plan calls for more

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nel had 27 years of front line, atc experience.el is also the focus point for how we bring equipment policies and procedures and execute on them in the line of business under the air traffic organization at the faa. we're tremendously blessed to have all of these folks here and it's a great prej ivilege to wo with all of them. we're making sure that we control our solutions. i'm going to have a seat and go join everybody in the opening comments. while you're listening to the speakers provide their opening comments, please, listen very carefully. if you have questions, please start writing them down so we can continue this confers moving forward. >> marla? >> thanks so much, john. i'm with the center for transportation which is a transportation policy. one of the most effective things that we're able to do as a research institution is identify larger transparencies. and as an introconvener, bring together key state holders and industry leaders to discuss best possible avenues forward. we ask you what you thought your biggest challen