Fri, Mar 21, 2008
And The Search Is On For Successor
Dave
Watrous has overseen the RTCA for the past 19 years... but he
announced recently he will retire in 2008, and that means the
search is underway to fill his shoes.
During Watrous' tenure, RTCA has played an important role in
shaping the future of aviation. Acting in a consultative role to
the Federal Aviation Administration, RTCA has served a diverse
constituency in advancing its mission -- to bring together the
aviation community to prepare and advance solutions to contemporary
communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic control
issues.
Sources tell ANN a nationwide search for a successor will be
launched within the next month, and be lead by a search team
comprised of AOPA President Phil Boyer; Ed Bolen, President of
NBAA; and Kevin Brown, Vice President at Boeing. The Ancora Group,
LLC will organize the search effort, and hopes to have a new
president in place at RTCA by early fall.
Organized in 1935 as the Radio Technical Commission for
Aeronautics, today RTCA is a private, not-for-profit corporation
that develops recommendations regarding communications, navigation,
surveillance, and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) system issues.
RTCA functions as a Federal Advisory Committee. Its recommendations
are used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the basis
for policy, program, and regulatory decisions and by the private
sector as the basis for development, investment and other business
decisions.
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