FAA/NCOIC Team on NextGen

The FAA and the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) have entered into an agreement to advance the Enterprise Architecture of NextGen, the FAA's national airspace system (NAS) transformation program. NCOIC's FAA contract has a potential value of approximately $10 million and spans five years.  NCOIC will analyze and evaluate NextGen's enterprise architecture views, products, plans, net-centric patterns and operational concepts. Working collaboratively, its members will develop "voice of industry" recommendations about applying net-centric standards to the NextGen procurement, as a way to achieve interoperability in the NAS and, potentially, the skies beyond U.S. borders. The agreement with NCOIC supports a forum for peer review, through which industry can provide its expertise to FAA throughout NextGen's lifecycle, from research through disposition.