---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 47143"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "47143"
heading: "Non-movement area surveillance surface display systems pilot program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/47143"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part B — Airport Development and Noise"
  - "Chapter 471 — Airport Development"
  - "Subchapter I — Airport Improvement"
---

# §47143. Non-movement area surveillance surface display systems pilot program

- (a) **In General.—** The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may carry out a pilot program to support non-Federal acquisition and installation of qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors if—
  - (1) the Administrator determines that such systems and sensors would improve safety or capacity in the National Airspace System; and
  - (2) the non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors supplement existing movement area systems and sensors at the selected [airports](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) established under other programs administered by the Administrator.
- (b) **Project Grants.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** For purposes of carrying out the pilot program, the Administrator may make a [project grant](/usc/49/47102.md?p=19) out of funds apportioned under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) or [paragraph (2)](/usc/49/47114.md?p=c-2) of section 47114(c) to not more than 5 eligible [sponsors](/usc/49/47102.md?p=26) to acquire and install qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors. The [airports](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) selected to participate in the pilot program shall have existing Administration movement area systems and airlines that are participants in Federal Aviation Administration’s [airport](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) collaborative decision-making process.
  - (2) **Data exchange processes.—** As part of the pilot program carried out under this section, the Administrator may establish data exchange processes to allow [airport](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) participation in the Administration’s [airport](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) collaborative decision-making process and fusion of the non-movement surveillance data with the Administration’s movement area systems.
- (c) **Sunset.—** This section shall cease to be effective on October 1, 2028.
- (d) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) **Non-movement area.—** The term “non-movement area” means the portion of the airfield surface that is not under the control of air traffic control.
  - (2) **Non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors.—** The term “non-movement area surveillance surface display systems and sensors” means a non-Federal surveillance system that uses on-[airport](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) sensors that track vehicles or [aircraft](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-6) that are equipped with transponders in the non-movement area.
  - (3) **Qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display system and sensors.—** The term “qualifying non-movement area surveillance surface display system and sensors” means a non-movement area surveillance surface display system that—
    - (A) provides the required transmit and receive data formats consistent with the National Airspace System architecture at the appropriate service delivery point;
    - (B) is on-[airport](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9); and
    - (C) is [airport](/usc/49/40102.md?p=a-9) operated.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–254, div. B, title I, § 140(a), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3210; amended Pub. L. 118–15, div. B, title II, § 2202(i), Sept. 30, 2023, 137 Stat. 83; Pub. L. 118–34, title I, § 102(i), Dec. 26, 2023, 137 Stat. 1113; Pub. L. 118–41, title I, § 102(i), Mar. 8, 2024, 138 Stat. 21; Pub. L. 118–63, title VII, § 724, May 16, 2024, 138 Stat. 1267.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2024—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 118–63 substituted “October 1, 2028” for “May 11, 2024”.

Pub. L. 118–41 substituted “May 11, 2024” for “March 9, 2024”.

2023—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 118–34 substituted “March 9, 2024” for “January 1, 2024”.

Pub. L. 118–15 substituted “January 1, 2024” for “October 1, 2023”.