New ATC Command Center

Management of the nation’s air traffic control system will move to a permanent home in a state-of-the-art facility near Warrenton, VA in 2011, when a new Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Control System Command Center is completed. The existing command center near Washington Dulles International will close when its lease expires in 2011. The 63,000-square-foot building that will house the FAA’s new command center will share its site with the FAA’s Potomac TRACON, a consolidated approach and departure control facility serving Washington, Baltimore and Richmond-area airports. About 300 controllers, managers and support staff members will move from the existing facility to the command center.