Aero Linx: American Association of Airport Executives It’s hard to imagine that an organization born in the early days of aviation in 1928 with a gathering of 10 airport directors would eventually grow to become one of the largest and most influential associations in Washington, but that’s precisely the history of the American Association of Airport Executives. AAAE ranks in the top 1 percent of professional trade associations in terms of budget and staff size and has an equally impressive reputation in Washington for providing outstanding representation on behalf of airport executives.

Navigation Reference System (NRS) The NRS is a system of waypoints developed for use within the United States for flight planning and navigation without reference to ground based navigational aids. The NRS waypoints are located in a grid pattern along defined latitude and longitude lines. The initial use of the NRS will be in the high altitude environment in conjunction with the High Altitude Redesign initiative. The NRS waypoints are intended for use by aircraft capable of point-to-point navigation.

"The GPS III flight operations contract along with the Launch and Checkout Capability will better synchronize our GPS control and space segments to support the first launch of a GPS III satellite and ensure mission success. We are focused on delivering the critical GPS III capabilities to users as efficiently and affordably as possible."  Source: Capt. Alex Rawling, the Air Force's GPS III Launch Operations lead after the Air Force awarded a $68 million contract to provide mission readiness, launch, early orbit checkout and on-orbit operations engineering support for the first two GPS III space vehicles to Lockheed Martin. The first and second GPS III satellites are on schedule for launch availability in 2014 and 2015, respe