MDA to Help FAA Develop New Instrument Procedures

The FAA has awarded MacDonald, Dettailer and Associates (MDA) a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, with a ceiling of approximately $11.8 million to begin developing a new Instrument Procedure Development System (IPDS) to help improve civilian and military flight-route design practices, for both en-route and terminal airspace.

MDA says the contract follows the program's definition phase in which it, along with the FAA and the U.S. Department of Defense, defined the system and the associated business processes.

IPDS is part of a joint initiative between the FAA and the DoD to first create automated tools to modernize flight route design practices in order to facilitate greater air traffic volumes and to harmonize military and civilian air navigation in the long term. This first development phase will provide the FAA and the DoD with the capability to design terminal area flight routes that take advantage of modern navigation equipment to improve terminal airspace usage.  01-24-2007.

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