Crown Consulting, Inc.

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Crown Consulting, Inc.
Transforming NextGen into Reality

ATCA Conference 2008
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Who We Are

• Enterprise consulting firm specializing in
  planning Air Traffic and Aviation System
  modernization programs
• Small disadvantaged business
• Established in 1989 with 15 years in assisting
  FAA in adopting new systems, processes, and
  technologies
• 125 Employees at sites throughout the U.S.
• History of helping FAA clients gain approval for
  more than 1 billion in proposed IT and
  infrastructure investments

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Crown Is In The Front End Systems Business
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Clients

• Federal Government
• FAA
• JPDO
• NASA
• USCIS
• Volpe
• State/Local Government
• Los Angeles World Airports
• Philadelphia International Airport
• MASSPORT
• Southern California Association of Governments

• Private Sector
• Booz-Allen Hamilton
• Northrop Grumman Corporation
• Computer Science Corporation
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
• MITRE Corporation
• Wiley Labs
• Parsons Engineering
• FedEx Corporation
• Hewlett Packard Company
• US Airways

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Capabilities For Advancing FAAs NextGen Planning
Agenda

• Capability 1
• Technical Foundation for Effective Solutions
• Gained through
• Central Role in
• Charting NextGen Technology
• and Operational Strategies

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Capabilities For Advancing FAAs NextGen Planning
Agenda
Capability 2 Moving Concepts and Solutions to
Implementation Built On Meeting OMB-300
and system architecture criteria and guiding
programs from Mission Need through JRC
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Capabilities For Advancing FAAs NextGen Planning
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Capability 3 Integrating multi-organizational
resources and solutions Derived from Success in
working in multi-organizational environments to
meet aviation modernization challenges
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Crown Supports NextGen Every Day
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Areas In Which Crown Supports NextGen Every Day

• JPDO Organizational Description Document, Program
  Plan, and Performance Tracking Mechanisms
• NextGen system description and CONOPS, including
  development of 25 individual Concepts of Use
• Leadership of technical groups to define NextGen
  business case and airport strategy
• Operational Improvements, Segment Roadmaps, and
  RD requirements,
• Principal technical experts on Safety, Weather,
  and Situational Awareness and Surveillance
  Working Groups

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Areas In Which Crown Supports NextGen Every Day

• Alignment of Airspace System Programs with
  proposed NextGen concepts and improvements
• Operational concepts and modeling support to
  analyze operational improvement portfolio,
  interpret results, and integrate outputs for
  cost-benefit analyses
• Top-level metrics to reflect progress toward
  goals in the National Plan and effects of NextGen
  on stakeholders
• Business Case and OMB Exhibit 300 development and
  integration of metrics into OMB Federal
  Enterprise Architecture Performance Reference
  Model
• Research Transition Team policies, procedures
  and gap analysis

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Crowns NextGen Team
Positioned To Contribute To Aviation And Air
Traffic Modernization
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Crowns NextGen Team
Robert Rosen, PhD

• Principal contributor to initial ATM Description
  and roadmap segments and OI packages, and
  top-down business case
• Deep Dive Studies of RD requirements for Flight
  Prioritization, Validation/Verification for
  Complex Systems, and Air-Ground Functionalities

James Cistone

• Development of Initial NGATS ATM Description and
  follow-up specification of capabilities and
  outcomes
• National Plan for NGATS, leading development of
  weather strategy and contributing to C2 Strategy
  and Overall End-State description

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Crowns NextGen Team
Dale DeKinder

• Interagency Surveillance Study Team to define
  mechanisms to overcome barriers to NextGen
  surveillance objectives
• NetCentric Working Group preparing information
  management exchange documents and developing the
  NextGen NetCentric concept of operations

Fred Lickteig

• NextGen Weather Working Group and Weather-Safety
  Interface to develop weather CONOPS, define 4-D
  Weather Cube, and explore safety element in
  weather products
• FAA Aviation Safety programs to integrate
  oversight processes and technologies into safety
  field inspections with responsibility for
  directing RCISS elements through IA and JRC
  approval

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Crowns NextGen Team
Rickard McAdoo

• Development of NextGen Safety Management System
  Approach with commercial airlines
• Pre-departure clearance procedures and
  information flows across aircraft, FAA, and AOC

Joy Fenton

• Fifteen years in helping FAA to guide programs
  through JRC approval and direct preparation of
  OMB Exhibit
• Analysis of new aviation systems and processes,
  gauging investment effectiveness, revising
  staffing standards, and spearheading change
  management

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Crowns NextGen Team
Michael Green

• Coordination of NASAs Airspace Systems Program
  research and integration activities with JPDO
• Principal author of ASP Alignment Report,
  identifying linkage between NextGen RD and NASA
  research milestones and summarizing ASP
  activities supporting NextGen research

Stormy Thornhill

• Former en route controller GA flight
  instructor, with 20 years experience years
  experience in air-traffic-related engineering
  projects
• Principal author of several concepts of
  operation, including ATS Concept of Operations
  for the NAS in 2005 and Commercial Space
  Transportation in the NAS

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Crowns NextGen Team
George Price

• Deep Dive Studies of RD requirements for Flight
  Prioritization, Validation/Verification
  Approaches for Complex Systems, and Air-Ground
  Functionalities
• Modeling parameters and metrics specification for
  measuring effectiveness of system options and
  conducting cost-benefit analyses

Herb Schlickenmaier

• 35-years in aviation and ATM research for FAA and
  NASA, focusing on RD through key strategic
  alliances with a wide range of aviation
  stakeholders
• Director for Aviation Safety responsible for
  management of cutting-edge NASA efforts to
  improve current and future aircraft safety, and
  to enable NextGen

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Why The Crown Team
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Crowns Ability To Transform NextGen Into Reality

• Technical Foundation for Effective Solutions
• Capacity To Move Concepts Solutions to
  Implementation
• Ability to Integrate Multi-Organizational
  Resources and Solutions