Visit Comes Amid Three-State Glitch
FAA Administrator Marion C. Blakey and Congressman John L. Mica
(R-FL, Dist. 7) today visited Harris Corporation's headquarters in
Melbourne (FL) Tuesday, to meet with company executives and tour
the FAA's Primary Network Operations and Control Center (PNOCC),
which is also located in Melbourne and operated jointly by Harris
and the FAA. The PNOCC is the main operations center from which the
FAA's nationwide communications network is monitored and managed.
The PNOCC is part of the $1.9 billion FAA Telecommunications
Infrastructure (FTI) program awarded to Harris in July 2002.
The visit came as a mysterious computer glitch forced controllers
to ground all flights in New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana for up to
two hours.