The first detailed air traffic management performance targets will drive about a year's worth of intense deliberations as a consortium of industry and government representatives works to spell out the future for Europe's ATM system. With an impending March 2008 deadline for the start of the Sesar development program—a multi-billion euro effort to overhaul Europe's ATM system and ensure adequate capacity for the coming years—the consortium behind the program has issued some specific goals. These will now be used to define specific research and development efforts, as well as procurement and structural changes, that need to be undertaken to realize the vision.
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