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The United States faces internal problems when it comes to aviation. "This country has an infrastructure crisis," McNerney said. Aviation is expected to grow in the next two decades but McNerney said not enough is being done to improve airports and air traffic control systems. Particularly, he said, the government needs to sort out funding issues surrounding a new satellite-based navigation system called NextGen. The system promises to reduce congestion in the sky and let airlines fly more-direct routes, saving time and fuel. Airlines, however, have balked at spending the millions of dollars necessary to upgrade their cockpits until the government has upgraded its own system. "It's going to slow down the growth in this country if we don't' get ahead of this," McNerney warned.
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