NextGen Overview

These links provide more information about NextGen.

• 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 more information about NextGen technologies.

Communications

• Data Communications

Navigation

• Metroplex
• Performance Based Navigation
• Satellite Navigation (including Wide Area Augmentation System)

Surveillance

• Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B)
• Equip ADS-B

Automation

• Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures
• En Route Automation Modernization
• Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System
• Terminal Flight Data Manager
• Time Based Flow Management
• Traffic Flow Management System

Information Management

• System Wide Information Management

Weather

• NextGen Weather

Non-traditional Operations

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

NextGen Research and Development

The links below provide more information about laboratories that support research, development, testing, and evaluation of NextGen technologies.

• Florida Test Bed
• NASA North Texas Research Station
• NextGen Integration and Evaluation Capability
• William J. Hughes Technical Center

Other Resources

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

• 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