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Status quo funding for the Airport Improvement Program is insufficient and will remain so through at least 2015
Compart 12 (senior editor for Aviation Daily and editor for Aviation Week & Space Technology, Andrew Compart, Airport Funding To Take Hit Under Obama Administration Budget, February 20, 2012, Lexis) LP "Obama signed the reauthorization...under the budget proposal."

This means significant delays for vital security and modernization projects
Liang 11 (Keith, “Airports Council: Fund improvement program in 2013”, The Hill, August 22, 2011, http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/aviation/177767-airports-council-fund-improvement-program-in-2013-)//IIN "Now is the time...our national economy"

The United States federal government should substantially increase funding for the Airport Improvement Program.
Contention 2 is the advantages--

Advantage 1 Economy--

Current flight demand exceeds supply causing chronic delays that costs the entire airline industry billions
Ferguson 12 Doctor of Philosophy (John, “A METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING ECONOMIC AND POLICY IMPACTS ON AIRLINE AND PASSENGER BEHAVIOR”, Spring 2012 – George Mason University, http://catsr.ite.gmu.edu/pubs/Ferguson_Dissertation_Final_2012_seApr25_v3.pdf)//IIN "The air transportation system...not grown with demand"

====And airports are key to millions of jobs and account for 8 percent of U.S. GDP – empirically proven— but current funding is not enough to ensure airports can handle massive increases in passengers and cargo==== Principato 12 President of Airports Council International-North America, which represents local, regional and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports (Greg, “Why we should invest today in 'Airports Inc.'”, The Hill, 3/27/2012, [] )//Bwang "the latest forecast predicting...job creation takes off."

An increase in federal infrastructure investment is key to solve capacity problems at airports – a delay in investment will mean escalating costs in the future
Bennett 99 (Grant D., “Funding Airport Infrastructure: Federal Options for Solvency”, Journal of Engineering and Public Policy, August 5th, 1999, http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/1999/index.html)//IIN "flight delay will soon...escalate in the future."

Economic problems in aviation spread globally due to interconnectedness of air transportation
IATA, 2008 (International Air Transport Association, “Aviation Economic Benefits”, http://www.iata.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/890700_Aviation_Economic_Benefits_Summary_Report.pdf) Megan "air transportation can be...growth of economies"

Civil aviation key to global economy and promotes global cooperation MB 11

(Manilla Bulleting Publishing Corportion, “Internation Civil Aviation Wednesday”, 6 December 2011, http://mb.com.ph/node/343894/international-civil-aviation-wedne)//FK//
"International Civil Aviation Day...of the world depends."

//Aviation is key to the global economy – stimulates econ and spurs trade and tourism// //SSCA 11// //(State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, “Aviation – A Catalyst For Development of Economic and Social Progress”, 20 June 2012, http://www.civilaviation.gov.kh/ss1_overview_aviation_catalyst.htm)//FK "Aviation contributing in...the world economy"

Economic collapse causes escalatory global conflicts
Harris and Burrows 09 Mathew J. Burrows (counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC), PhD in European History from Cambridge University) and Jennifer Harris (a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit) April 2009 “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf "history may be instructive...be increasingly difficult"

Currently security at small GA airports is practically nonexistent making them prime targets for terrorism – empirically proven
Elias, 2009 (Bart, specialist in aviation policy, Federation of American Scientists, “Securing General Aviation”, March 3, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33194.pdf) Megan "raised significant concerns...in earlier incidents"

Terrorists will use GA aircraft for CBW or nuclear attacks
Elias, 2009 (Bart, specialist in aviation policy, Federation of American Scientists, “Securing General Aviation”, March 3, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33194.pdf) Megan "intelligence info suggests...more formidable threat."

One bioterror attack could kill more people than WWII and would tank the economy Commission on the Prevention of WMD, 2009 (Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation & Terrorism, “The Clock is Ticking”, October 21, http://www.pharmathene.com/CPWMD_Interim_Report.pdf) Megan "The threat of bioterrorism...could exceed $1.8 trillion."

There is a lack of AIP funding for bomb detection now leaving airports vulnerable
GAO 05 United States, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Government Accountability Office, Committee on Appropriations, Congress, House (Aviation security systematic planning needed to optimize the deployment of checked baggage screening systems, 3/15, http://books.google.com/booksid=H1b7qdMj9lcC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=aip+baggage+screening&source=bl&ots=ztMYNnVQor&sig=ZCOf38rMjWRyh2Mh7X4M0ZBAhdo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TWjjT7OLPIHM9QTyp5GGCA&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAQ#v)//MSO "the availability of federal funds...their funding needs."

AIP funds can be used for explosives detection
GAO 02 United States General Accounting Office (“Using Airport Grant Funds for Security Projects Has Affected Some Development Projects”, Report to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, October 2002, http://gao.gov/assets/240/236115.pdf)//MSO "projects qualified for AIP...explosive detection canines"

A terrorist attack causes US lash out and war
Morgan 2001 Nicole Schwartz-Morgan, Assistant Professor of Politics and Economics at Royal Military College of Canada (10/10/2001, “Wild Globalization and Terrorism,” http://www.wfs.org/mmmorgan.htm)// "terrorists reactivate atavistic...radicalizing the conflict."

And, terrorism escalates to nuclear war
Ayson 10 Robert **Ayson,** Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, **2010** (“After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld) "some sort of terrorist...even on their sovereignty"

Funding AIP is key to address internal tradeoffs that have gutted security projects – current fee revenues are insufficient
Kirk 09 Specialist in Transportation Policy for the Congressional Research Service (Robert S. Kirk, “Airport Improvement Program (AIP) Reauthorization Issues for Congress”, Congressional research service, May 29, 2009, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40608.pdf)//MSO

"In the years preceding...as an issue"