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DOT to Audit FAA’s SENSR Program
The U.S. DOT (Department of Transportation) Office of Inspector General (IG) issued an Audit Announcement of the status of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) program. The SENSR program is a cross-agency, multibil- lion-dollar infrastructure project intended to modernize aging weather and aircraft surveillance radar systems.
The FAA is partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, and will lead the efforts to assess the feasibility of acquiring new surveillance solutions. The FAA plans for funding for the development and deployment of new radars to be through the Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2015, which permits federal agencies to auction off government electromagnetic spectrum equipment and use the proceeds to fund new infrastructure.
The DOT IG stated that given the significant investment, coordination and development efforts to procure, test and implement a new national air and weather surveillance system, the House Committee on Appropriations directed their agency to examine the program. The IG stated, “Accordingly, our audit objectives are to assess (1) the FAA’s actions to leverage work conducted by other agencies to reduce development costs and risks for SENSR; and (2) how the FAA plans to integrate SENSR into NextGen and the NAS.” KA
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