Air traffic management plans advanced

The FAA and Boeing recently introduced separate plans for improving the nation's air traffic management system. The Aerospace Congress & Exhibition, hosted by The Boeing Co., will address those proposals along with many other technical and non-technical issues affecting the global aerospace industry.

If we don't make improvements to the air traffic management system, what's the point in developing more and better airplanes? As someone who's in the business of developing more and better airplanes, David Swain poses that question not because he doesn't know the answer, but because he is trying to generate a consensus for change within the industry.

Change will be an underlying theme at the September 10-13 Aerospace Congress & Exhibition (ACE), for which Swain, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technology at Boeing, is serving as Executive Chair. Sure to be the subject of much discussion at the conference will be separate air traffic management proposals released in June by Boeing and the FAA.