FAA's WAAS Slips a Year

FAA says it now expects to commission its GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), designed to provide Category-1 precision approach service, in September 2000--a schedule slippage of about 1 year. WAAS is intended to enhance the accuracy of the basic GPS signal by providing users with a...

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