OPS Support included occupations such as logistics support, air traffic controllers, supply technicians, traffic technicians, postal clerks, administrative clerks, financial clerks, resource management support clerks and mobile support equipment operators.
The firewall software that screens users on the network could not handle the surge in traffic, so technicians tried to free up capacity by asking employees to limit their online activities and by disabling bandwidth-consuming functions, like videos of old board meetings, on its Web site.
Traffic engineers and technicians are faced with the challenge of testing traffic controllers to ensure that they comply with different software and hardware requirements prior to deployment.
Air traffic controllers and technicians had fought the new equipment, the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, or Stars, but representatives of each group said they were now satisfied.
But as Internet-connected computers became common in libraries, librarians have reluctantly found themselves in roles for which they have neither trained nor volunteered -- that of traffic cop, referee and computer technician.
With a two-year degree, air traffic controllers make $113,547, dental hygienists $70,408, nuclear technicians $68,533 and fashion designers $63 ,170 according to Career Builder.com.
Killed in the crash Sunday were the pilot, Stephen Bunker, 59; the flight paramedic, Mickey Lippy, 34; an emergency medical technician, Tanya Mallard, 39; and one traffic accident victim, Ashley Younger, 18.
In a lightning strike, technicians first cut off nearly all international traffic through those portals.
At the Seattle-Tacoma airport, which handles virtually all commercial traffic for a metropolitan area of 3.5 million people, technicians reconnected the temporary tower to ground-scanning radar.
"It's gotten down to a big finger-pointing contest," said Thomas Brantley, national vice president of the Professional Airways System Specialists, the union of technicians who maintain the F.A.A.'s air traffic control equipment.
FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN At 5 p.m. sharp, Mitsuru Itou watches as a technician steps inside a quartet of orange traffic cones and black-and-yellow traffic bars marking a "keep out" area in a gravel lot.
