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Firms see big bucks in upgrade of US ATC system
Billions of dollars in government and private contracts ride on conversion to satellite-based GPS; modernisation efforts will create opportunities for several American firms
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Mon, Jun 12, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Seattle
INSIDE the control tower at John F Kennedy International Airport, air traffic controllers can track planes travelling hundreds of miles away.
But when it's time for a controller to hand off responsibility for watching a flight, the technology becomes decidedly last century: details are printed on a slip of paper and passed to a co-worker.
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