SITA, JDA and INTELEX join forces as FAA safety mandate nears

Three industry leaders - SITA, JDA and Intelex - have joined forces to offer SITA AirportSafety Management an integrated safety management system (SMS) solution to meet the proposed Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Part 139 SMS rule due later this year. The FAA rule will affect more than 540 commercial airports in the United States.

This mandate is expected to come into force in mid- to late 2012. At that point, the airports it will impact will have between 18 - 24 months to design and implement a SMS and safety manual as defined by the mandate.

An SMS helps to streamline airport operations by using safety risk management (SRM) processes coupled with technology to integrate people and systems that today are organized independently by the Part 139 function. As the world's leading IT provider for the air transport industry, SITA delivers an SMS solution that optimizes and integrates human, technical and organizational factors across functional and departmental boundaries to provide seamless and effective safety for airports.


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