The Next Generation Airport Ops vehicle

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FOD Finder Detection and Retrieval System

• The Next Generation Airport Ops vehicle
• Grant Bishop
• Trex Enterprises

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Overview

• Trex Enterprises
• FOD Finder Capability
• Incident Management
• Safety
• Security

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History

• Corporate History
• Established in 1978
• Acquired by Thermo Electron in 1988
• IPO in 1991 on AmEx
• Acquired by Employees from Thermo Electron in
  2000
• Approximately 190 Employees
• Contract RD
• Technology Commercialization

California Headquarters
Oahu
Maui
Kauai
New Mexico
Massachusetts
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MDA-funded Programs Are Making Successful
Transitions
Advanced Materials

• Photoconductor on Active Pixel

Develop high QE sensors sensitive from
ultraviolet to short wave infrared spectrum.
Scalable to gigapixel video sensors.
Develop ultra-high purity, stress-free, optical
grade SiC. Also performs at temperatures
approaching 3500 ºF. Exceeds other SiC by 1,000
ºF.
Porous Silicon Biosensors
Advanced R.F. Technology
Develop a porous silicon optical biosensor that
provides real-time measurements of
protein-protein kinetic binding interactions.
Develop point-to-point wireless communications at
3 Gbps.
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Trex Spin Out Ventures

• Ophthonix (Minority Partnership)
• Complete vision optimization solution
• Z-View Aberrometer for higher accuracy of vision
  assessment
• i-Zon customized eyeglasses
• Revenue from products

• e-Phocus (Joint Venture)
• Innovative CMOS imaging sensors
• JV for chips for consumer applications launched
  in Taiwan

• Loea Corporation
• Ultra high bandwidth point-to-point wireless
  communication
• FCC approved MMW radios
• Revenue from products

Sago Systems Security applications
Unprecedented imaging performance in checkpoint
and stand-off application No x-ray and no
gender ID

• Silicon Kinetics
• Proprietary instrumentation
• Improved sensitivity/cost in Protein Interaction
  Analysis for Biotech Industry

• CrossFiber
• Photonic cross connect and optical add-drop
• Break through performance with break through price

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Advanced Materials

• Trex's CVC SiC products, fabricated utilizing
  its patented CVC technology, are rapidly gaining
  acceptance in a number of high value added
  applications within the DoD and industry.
• Semiconductor wafer processing equipment,
  especially etch where the material has
  demonstrated superior etch resistance
• Mirrors and optics (up to 1.5 meter)
• Nuclear fuel rod cladding
• Components for high temperature (up to 3600F)
  applications/environments. Trex CVC SiC
  outperforms other silicon carbides by more than
  1000F.
• Ballistic applications

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e-Phocus

• Our e-Phocus subsidiarys patented Photoconductor
  on Active Pixel (POAP) technology enables
  coating of a complementary metal oxide and
  semiconductor (CMOS) chip with a photoconductive
  layer. Our CMOS image sensor provides desired
  sensitivity, resolution, and low power
  consumption at a low cost. The development of CCD
  and CMOS sensors has enabled the creation of a
  multi-billion dollar market. We expect our
  e-Phocus subsidiary will be become a significant
  participant in this multi-billion dollar market.
• e-Phocus image chips will deliver unprecedented
  price/performance features that customers need to
  achieve their growth targets.  They include
  solutions for which POAP provides the lowest
  cost for the required performance, like digital
  still and cell phone cameras. These applications
  use our chips in the visible portion of the
  electromagnetic spectrum. 

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Sensors
36 MPixel Video Sensor

• POAP Technology
• Large format sensor chips with photodiode coating
• Use entire surface of chip for imaging
• Wavelength sensitivity decoupled from CMOS
  substrate
• Cameras for Various Applications
• DoD
• DHS
• Commercial

Visible through SWIR Sensing
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Loea Corporation

• Hawaii based Loea Corporation led the Nation in
  creating the first wireless, point-to-point
  communications technology operating in the radio
  frequency E-band millimeter spectrum of 71.0-86.0
  GHz transferring 1.25 gigabits per second of
  information. Loea petitioned the FCC to gain
  access to this area of the spectrum in 2000, and
  won approval. Loeas 2500 radio received
  commercial FCC approval in July 2005 and is
  currently being marketed for government and
  commercial applications. Loeas wireless radios
  penetrate rain, fog, clouds, snow, artillery
  debris, volcanic ash (vog) and dust storms. The
  U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and academic
  institutions use Loea for primary and redundant
  communications. Trex Enterprises spun out Loea
  Corporation in 2000, Loeas 2500 product is GSA
  approved.

Current links in the State of Hawaii
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Silicon Kinetics

• With the worlds most versatile, most sensitive
  and most economical set of instruments and sensor
  chips, we aim for wide adoption of our nano-Pore
  Optical lnterferometry (nPOI) platform for
  biomolecular interaction analysis in both
  academic research and pharmaceutical/biotech
  industries.
• Detection and quantitation of binding and
  dissociation of biomolocules are critical in the
  study of disease pathways, in the screening for
  and development of potential drugs, and in
  post-clinical patient monitoring.
• On Silicon Kinetics label-free biosensor
  platform, no reporter element or tag (such as a
  fluorescent label) is required to detect and
  quantitate the binding of biomolecules to
  analytes in a sample.
• As the most economical and versatile platform in
  the industry, Silicon Kinetics brings
  biomolecular interaction analysis within the
  reach of the individual researcher, whether in
  academia or in various research, drug discovery,
  development or patient monitoring departments of
  biotech and pharmaceutical firms.

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FOD Finder
FOD Finder is a revolutionary new technology
tool used by airports in the combat against the
estimated 4 Billion dollars in damage and loss of
aircraft utilization. The impact of FOD
ultimately cascades into the public sector
through avoidable delays in the aviation system
resulting in reduced reliability and public
confidence. Safety FOD Finders data
management system (A.I.R. Boss) provides airport
leadership with the ability to perform trend
analysis and Safety Risk Assessments (SRM) of
hazardous conditions, and identify metrics to
reduce the risk of a damaging FOD event while
increasing productivity of inspection personnel.
The FOD Finder has a built-in Runway Incursion
Prevention System to warn drivers of oncoming
runway and ILS boundaries. FOD Finder sees
through fog, rain, and nighttime conditions where
finding and removing hazards from runways and
taxiways is mission critical. Efficiency FOD
Finder can inspect a two-mile long runway in
less than 25 of the time of conventional
inspection methods. The speed and effectiveness
of FOD Finder reduces the time a runway is
closed for a detailed safety inspection,
increases runway utilization, and improves the
productivity of airfield personnel performing
inspections.
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Design Objectives
Where is FOD?

• Find and Retrieve FOD
• Simple to operate
• Audio guidance
• Must retrieve FOD
• Must track FOD
• Must image FOD
• Meet current airport procedures
• Meet FAA Advisory Circular guidance
• Cover all hard surfaces
• Install, Setup Training in less than 7 days
• Integrate Trex MMW technology with COTS systems
• Cost effective

ONLY 15 of items on Runway 85 items on portable
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FOD Finder with GOATvac A.I.R. Boss systems

• MMW radar developed for US Military
• Detects .9mm monofilament line
• Images surface
• Industrial vacuum system
• Satellite/Aerial imagery
• Simple software
• Red dots mark FOD locations
• Runway incursion prevention
• Network multiple vehicles
• Part 139 using A.I.R. Boss or
• Audio indication of detection and range
• Database tracking of all actions
• Multiple Images of FOD
• Bar code sticker for each item
• Fits to ANY vehicle
• Install/Setup/train in less than 7 days

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Capability

• Automatic FOD detection
• Vacuum retrieval
• A.I.R. Boss
• Digital Part 139 checklist
• Runway incursion prevention
• Audio guidance
• Pavement management
• New Runway Groove verification
• Rubber deposit management
• Snow Ice clearing
• 24/7 database via internet
• Automated reports
• Meets multiple FAA AC 150 requirements
• AIP approved

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Advantages of mobile detection

• Retrieval
• Operator
• Machine
• Multi function platform
• Part 139 checklist
• Airfield logistics
• Pavement management
• Cost
• MSRP 300,000 USD
• Installation Training 3-7 days
• Mounts to any vehicle
• Cover 100 of airfield maneuvering area
• Runway (dont have to travel on it)
• Ramp
• Taxiways
• Flexibility
• Construction
• Fixed or Mobile
• Multi sensor platform

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New Grooved Runway Sensor
Trex Patented Runway Sensor
Single SPOT LASER
14 wide image every .750 ms

• Remove human factor
• Always collecting data
• Easy to read images
• Paint and Glass Beads reflectivity
• Water
• Ice
• De icing fluid
• Rubber deposits
• Groove cut to spec
• Liability protection

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Build data base on every pass
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Data will be precise
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Management tool for operations
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Reports quickly display areas needing attention
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Early actions can avoid closures
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Wear on all hard surfaces can be monitored
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PAVEMENT AREA
3LIP
5?
DRAG DROP ON MAP
FOD
H2O
AIR BOSS
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Additional Capability

• Incident Management
• HD video
• 3.0 gigabits/sec
• Security
• Weather
• Night

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Questions?