WAAS Phase One Is 14 Months Behind Schedule, FAA Says

FAA is delaying the commissioning date for the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) from July 1999 until September 2000 because a critical software module will not be ready, Administrator Jane Garvey said yesterday. The program, estimated to cost $3 billion through its life cycle, had been running...

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