NextGen Programs and Resources

NextGen Overview

The links provide more information about the NextGen vision.

• NAS Animated Storyboard
• NextGen Flight 101: The Passenger Experience
• Trajectory Based Operations

Key Programs

The links below, grouped by air traffic management functional areas, provide additional information about technologies that enable the NextGen transformation.

Communications

• Data Communications

Navigation

• Metroplex
• Performance Based Navigation
• Wide Area Augmentation System

Surveillance

• Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast
• Equip ADS-B

Automation

• Terminal Flight Data Manager
• Time Based Flow Management
• Traffic Flow Management System

Information Management

• System Wide Information Management

Weather

• Integrated Terminal Weather System
• NextGen Weather

Non-traditional NAS Operations

• Advanced Air Mobility
• Remote Towers
• Space Data Integrator
• Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research

Other Resources

The links below refer to select programs or resources that contribute to the vision of a future NAS.

• Aviation Cyber Initiative
• Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) System
• Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions, and Noise (CLEEN) Program
• Environment and Energy Research and Development
• Safety Management System
• William J. Hughes Technical Center