FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 19, 2010 CONTACT: David Gillies, Rep. Costello’s office COSTELLO WELCOMES DR. KARLIN TONNER AS HEAD OF JPDO WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman Jerry Costello (D-IL), Chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, issued the following statement today regarding the announcement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that Dr. Karlin Tonner has been appointed [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘JPDO’
January 14, 2010
Conference: “Beyond SOA and Cloud”
NextGen will be front and center at a fascinating one-day conference in Washington DC on February 10, 2010. The event is called “Beyond SOA and Cloud: Next Generation Information Exchange in High Consequence Environments”, and is hosted by the DC chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. JPDO is collaborating with the event [...]
May 27, 2009
JPDO update – milestones since last all-hands meeting
Charlie Leader presented the following JPDO milestones in his all-hands update last week (links are included where available): FY11 Budget Guidance submitted to OST/OMB on February 20 The Environmental Management System R&D initiated in March Roll-Out Plan for 2012 implementation of Net-Centric Information Sharing Capability released on March 12 ATM Weather Integration Plan released on [...]
January 8, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Charlie Leader, Director, Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO)
In our continuing series of exclusive interviews with NextGen newsmakers, we’re pleased to present an in-depth conversation with Charlie Leader, Director of the JPDO. Some quotes: We need to make more progress with the net-centric operations piece. The aviation information-sharing infrastructure that underpins this is just critical. We’ve made frustratingly slow progress in that area, [...]
November 24, 2008
Want to see what JPDO is up to? New website lets you dig deep
A very interesting venture by the JPDO to give the public access to a series of key documents and road maps, using a highly dynamic (if slightly confusing) website. There’s so much to explore, one hardly knows where to begin, but one thing that caught our eye was a list of “19 objectives” that a [...]
November 12, 2008
JPDO’s Bob Pearce: NextGen needs more than a better ‘elevator’ pitch
Bob Pearce, JPDO Deputy Director, submitted the following comment (Thanks Bob!), in response to the post Jane Garvey on NextGen: “We don’t know what our vision is.” I have a lot of respect for Jane Garvey and Ken Meade, but it is clear they want to define NextGen in conventional terms – in terms of [...]
August 30, 2008
AOPA’s Boyer cites JPDO in lobbying for a “special emphasis” on GA
It might be a slight stretch, but AOPA President Phil Boyer is claiming a shared vision with the JPDO over the future of America’s smaller GA airports. In an open letter to Acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell (press release), Boyer argues for a special emphasis on preserving and improving America’s general aviation airports [and] increasing all-weather [...]
