Next gen affirmative 1ac advantage-Econ

Add On-Harmonization 2AC

Private industry plays an integral part in the success of NextGen. The development of the tools and tech­nologies required to move into the next generation of air transportation will be generated by industry partners both in the U.S. and abroad. Global harmonization is accomplished when these NextGen tools, technologies, and requisite procedures proliferate around the globe as a result of international com­merce. Global sharing of NextGen industry products should be supported and promoted. Areas must be identified where industry is best suited to take the lead in interoperability and harmonization efforts. Additionally, when appropriate, industry will be integrated into the process to assist in the development of technical standards and demonstration programs.

On March 2, 2007, the United States and the European Union (EU) concluded a comprehensive air transport agreement with the 27 EU countries. The agreement, which was signed in conjunction with the April 30, 2007, U.S.-EU Summit in Washington, D.C., has tremendous potential for transforming air travel and trade across the Atlantic. The U.S.-EU economic relationship has contributed to commercial success on both sides of the Atlantic. It has opened investment, promoted trade in goods and services, and enabled the mobility of persons through initiatives such as the Visa Waiver Program. The United States and the EU lead liberalization efforts in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and they continue to work together to remove the remaining economic barriers. The U.S. aviation relationship with the European Union and the member states, however, has not kept pace with our larger economic and commercial ties. The EU and the United States are the two largest air transport markets in the world. Together they account for more than half of all global scheduled passenger traffic and 71.7 percent of the world’s freighter fleet. 1 The European country with which the United States has had the closest relationship overall, the United Kingdom, is the country with which it has it has had our most restrictive aviation relationship. The U.S.-EU agreement is thus historic and supports not only aviation liberalization but also the growth of international trade. Aviation plays an important role in driving globalization, enabling trade by bringing businesspeople together, moving high-value, time-critical products, and contributing to the expansion of travel and tourism. Open Skies agreements remove regulatory limits on the number of carriers a country may designate, the number of flights, the routes flown, and the type of aircraft an airline may use. Open routing provisions that permit unlimited flights between the parties also allow carriers to continue flights on to third-country markets. While removing barriers to market entry and service, the agreements affirm the critical operations of civil aviation, such as safety and security. The agreements cover operations by scheduled and charter operators, for passenger and all-cargo services

The economic relationship between the US and the EU has certainly not been free of conflict in recent years, be it chlorinated chickens, alleged favourable treatment for domestic manufacturers such as Airbus or the inclusion of international aviation in the ETS. Europeans often complain about alleged disregard of health, social and environmental standards while the US accuses the EU of trying to close its markets. The ongoing increased emphasis on security after 9/11 by the US and more protectionist rhetoric on both sides in the wake of the economic crisis have recently also weighed on this relationship. Currently, the US is exasperated by the failure to get the Eurocrisis under control and is looking increasingly to China while the Europeans still see the US as an obstacle for international financial sector reform and for decisive action to combat climate change. Reading this list of grievances - and there are many more – might suggest that there is something fundamentally wrong in the relationship of the US and the EU. In fact, the opposite is true: the EU-US transatlantic economic space is the most important engine of the global economy, bar none. Not only are there huge trade and investment flows between the US and the EU, by and large they share common values and economic interests at the global level. This transatlantic relationship generates significant economic activity on both continents, generating jobs and growth which both the US and the EU desperately need.

A2: Politics-Defense

Obama has already spent his capital on next gen-any backlash is accounted for and non-unique

Barkowski 2012- Pepperdine Law Review, J.D. Candidate, Pepperdine University, 2010; B.A. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2007; Instrument-Rated Private Pilot Certificate, 2008. (Justin B. 2/2/2012 ""Managing Air Traffic Congestion Through the Next Generation Air Transportation System: Satellite- Based Technology, Trajectories, and - Privatization?"" Volume 37 | Issue 1 Article 3 ) PHS

In 2007, "congested skies brought a 10 percent spike in delays," and with projections of air travel demand more than doubling by 2025, the need for an air transportation infrastructure to efficiently accommodate demand has never been more important. The current system is running primarily on air traffic control (ATC) 4 technology developed in the 1940s, resembling "something that was used to guide the Beatles during their first trip to America."' Over half of a century later, Congress has finally called for the creation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), and nearly every political constituency is heavily anticipating the transformation, including President Barack Obama's Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, who has called NextGen the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) next priority.7

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