The European Commission and US FAA Friday in Madrid signed a memorandum of cooperation regarding "civil aviation research and development" with a specific emphasis on jointly pursuing modernized ATC systems.
The first technical annex of the memorandum is "dedicated to SESAR-NextGen cooperation," according to the EC, which called it "a major achievement" that will ensure "effective interoperability" between the satellite-based ATC systems that the US and EU previously had been pursuing on separate tracks.
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