Tripping Over STARS

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As AVweb reported earlier, deployment of the controversial Standard Terminal Automated Replacement System (STARS) has been pared back to seven installations this year from a scheduled 18 because of budget constraints. The FAA is putting the best possible spin on the delay. “It’s not that we’re cutting back the deployment,” FAA spokeswoman Rebecca Trexler told Federal Computer Week. “We’re spreading it out over more years than we had hoped.” John Carr, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, was somewhat less delicate. “It will be obsolete by the time the last systems are deployed,” he told a meeting of the Aviation Safety Alliance last week.

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