The FAA can only maintain the Host Computer hardware through 2012<\/strong>, after which operational availability and maintainability will be at risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo it’s likely that the FAA has support for the current HOST computer system through 2012 or 2013.<\/p>\n
However, keep in mind if that’s true then ERAM must be up and running at all the center facilities across the country by that time at the very latest.\u00a0 That gives them less than three years.\u00a0 After that the FAA doesn’t have a plan.<\/p>\n
And you can sense their panic starting to build.<\/p>\n
Right now they’re still testing ERAM in a relatively controlled and sterile environment, at facilities with lower traffic densities and other controls in place.<\/p>\n
Although that makes sense to start, it’s essentially a “rigged” test.<\/p>\n
It also has the potential to lead to FAA managers gaining a false sense of confidence in the system.\u00a0 And given that confidence, it’s likely that those same managers will thereby believe that ERAM is ready for wider deployment.<\/p>\n
At the end of ZLC’s 8 day ERAM test, I’m sure that given the FAA’s past history, if no one got killed, they will claim everything went swimmingly, regardless of how many problems they actually had.<\/p>\n
Already last year the controllers helping with some of the ERAM testing reported getting pressure from the contractor to downgrade the severity of the bugs in the system.<\/p>\n
In less than three years the FAA has to have ERAM running at all the 20 centers in the country, so they need all the help they can get.<\/p>\n
The clock is definitely ticking on ERAM.\u00a0 Just like on a big bomb…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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