Overview

View these webpages for more information about NextGen.

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

Key Programs

These webpages grouped by air traffic management functional areas, provide more information about NextGen technologies.

Communications

• Data Communications

Navigation

• Performance Based Navigation
• Satellite Navigation
• Metroplex

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

Nontraditional Operations

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

Research and Development

These webpages provide more information about laboratories that support research, development, testing, and evaluation of NextGen technologies.

• William J. Hughes Technical Center for Advanced Aerospace
• NAS Innovation and Emerging Concepts (NIEC)
• Florida Test Bed
• NASA North Texas Research Station

Safety and Environment

These webpages refer to select programs or resources that contribute to the NAS of the future.

• Safety Management System
• Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) System
• Environment and Energy Research and Development