ATC
FAA constructing new ‘nerve center’
Federal and local officials broke ground early last month for a new Air Traffic Control System Command Center colocated with the FAA’s Potomac Tracon south

Federal and local officials broke ground early last month for a new Air Traffic Control System Command Center colocated with the FAA’s Potomac Tracon southwest of Dulles International Airport (IAD).

Placing the command center adjacent to Potomac Tracon enables the FAA to use utilities and infrastructure put in place when the Tracon was built several years ago on land that once was the home of the Vint Hill Farm military base. The existing command center on leased land next to IAD will close when its lease expires in 2011.

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