We’re looking from that experience to no experience at all. So the company of any size is welcome to participate in the competition. ThuyLihn TranNguyen: Yeah, so what we’re currently doing, and we’re gonna release a full and open competition. TranNguyen, how are you going about this? That is to say, is it a challenge competition? Is it a contract? What do you have out there on the street right now? And just from a portfolio perspective, say we have a chance to really improve the quality of the infrastructure. And so we read at this point, we’re hoping to take the opportunity. But there’s all sorts of different sort of agreements. And there’s some of the airports only that they maintain. So a lot of these facilities we do own and maintain, there are also a number of other that the airports own and will maintain. ![]() And so who is responsible for maintaining and the capital investment in those smaller airports? Is that a federal function or you have to work with those state and local authorities? And it can get complicated if you’re talking about the big airports, but also the small ones. Tom Temin: Well, one more question on that, because almost every airport is operated by a local or regional authority that is somehow connected to that state or local government. Tell us how you do it and tell us how you could do it quickly? We really want to hear your innovative design ideas and construction ideas. So we’re going out to industry saying, hey, we know you guys can help us. But we’re not geared to develop to do something at this scale, and this short of a timeframe. So what we’re doing with this competition is we’re saying, hey, we’re going out to the industry, we’re really great in the FAA at replacing and designing single towers, one of the time we’ve done it in the in times, we’re great at it, that process is pretty well set. So our vision is, with the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passing, it’s gonna provide us with the big – we’re not exactly sure the amount of funding, but a much larger investment than we normally see through our appropriation process, and it’s going to allow us to hopefully replace around 100 of these sort of towers. And they really need some love, to be honest. They haven’t reached their end of useful life, they’re getting close to it. ![]() A lot of them are over 40 to 50 years old. And a bunch of these are in regional municipal airports, smaller airports, they haven’t seen the investment in recent history. We have over 500 control tower and radar facilities. So in a lot of our major airports, the ones that control sort of the flow of traffic through the – your Atlantas, your Chicagos, LAs – those airports have seen lots of investment, and they’re in really pretty good shape. But what are you trying to accomplish here? Because I thought, in your big cities, the towers are already, landmarks in many ways now. ![]() Tom Temin: And tell us what the vision is you have here for this project, we’ll get into the contracting mechanism. Insight by Riverbed and Red River: In an exclusive ebook, learn how VA, IHS and DHA have begun modernization efforts that will break down silos and provide network visibility with the goal of improving patient care as well as providing better user experiences internally too. Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United States.
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