FAA slips WAAS schedule 14 months; software module cited

FAA Administrator Jane Garvey said yesterday that the agency is delaying the original July 1999 commissioning date for the $3 billion Wide Area Augmentation System until September 2000 because a critical software module will not be ready. The program had a difficult start several years ago but had...

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