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| Appropriations Request | |
| Posted: April 3, 2009 | |
Federal Aviation Administration |
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| Amount Requested: $3 million |
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| The FAA has established goals for the improvement of airport surface safety, including increasing situational awareness on the airport surface. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)’s top priority transportation Safety Improvements include giving immediate warnings of probable collisions/incursions directly to flight crews in the cockpit. To that end, the funding requested will support a national pilot program at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick to determine the effectiveness of automatic Geographic Information System (GIS) control of airport ground vehicle annunciator lighting. This effort will minimize the cost to taxpayers because no airport construction or site modifications will be required. All equipment is installed on the surface vehicles in such a manner as to be able to return the vehicle to pre-test configuration with no remaining effects or modifications necessary. The Rhode Island Airport Corporation is supportive of this request. | |
| Recipient's address: 800 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20591 | |