NextGenAviation - Strategic-Partners

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Strategic Partners

Aviation partnerships are a key component of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). These include FAA partnerships with: industry; federal agencies; state, local, and foreign governments; academia and associations. The FAA has entered many partnership agreements to accelerate deployment of NextGen. The most recent agreement enables creation of the NextGen Aviation Research and Technology Park, near the Technical Center.

The park, which will be built at no direct cost to the FAA, will be a high-technology, integrated, dynamic aviation facility that provides the infrastructure for national and international leadership in aviation research and technologies. The park will offer a central location for the FAA's partners to perform research, development, testing, integration and verification of the technologies, concepts and procedures required by NextGen. It will support the FAA's mission and build on the Technical Center's role, leading the testing and prototype development of the systems to make the NextGen vision a reality.

The Technical Center "campus" also serves as home to many entities, including: the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Laboratory, the Federal Air Marshal Service's training facility, U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, the New Jersey National Guard 177th Air Wing and the Atlantic City International Airport. The Technical Center's multi-modal location gives research park partners access to research laboratories and testing facilities that will support all facets of NextGen.

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