Moving Air Traffic Along

The new TFMS network at FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ, became operational June 18. Originally located at the Volpe Center in Cambridge, MA, the system tracks, anticipates and manages the flow of air traffic throughout U.S. airspace, integrating real-time weather and flight data from multiple sources. The new system provides the architecture needed to take the FAA into the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The TFMS uses a state-of-the-art, open-architecture platform that increases development bandwidth, facilitates integration with other domains, and improves TFM performance and capacity.