PPT Slide
Background Status Quo Deficiencies
- Tactical systems do not satisfy warfighter needs
- Limited deployment capability, manpower intensive
- Poor reliability, approaching end of equipment life
- Erosion of Joint Service interoperability
- AF has reduced PAR use in favor of ILS
- Army and Navy primarily use PAR
- Navy has unique shipboard systems
- Civil Aviation moving to new technology
- PAR is prohibited by federal regulation for revenue air carrier use
- Federal Radionavigation Plan calls for FAA phase-out of ILS in favor of Augmented GPS
- Time consuming and weather dependent flight inspection required
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