We are all very eager to hear the recommended action items. But more than that, I'm eager to get started on implementing the recommended actions. We are going to hear today from the regional teams about their findings and recommendations. Ken Mead, the Department of Transportation's Inspector General, participated in one of the regional runway safety workshops in New York and he made a very insightful comment about how much improving runway safety is a local issue. Chairman Wolf spoke about the complexity of the issue, what can we do locally, with Human Factors, and what can we do with technology.
Human factors is a key to runway safety, but so is technology.
This airport surface detection equipment will give controllers essential information about the location of aircraft on the airport's surface. The assessment focused on potential accidents and fatalities. We will continue to do safety analyses and we will add more airports to the list if the analyses justifies this. The Airport Movement Area Safety System is a computerized enhancement to the current airport ground radar. It gives controllers visual and aural warnings of incursions that might lead to collisions.