AARRRF FRA Cooperative Agreement CA Project Status Updates

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AAR/RRF - FRA Cooperative Agreement (CA) Project
Status Updates

• December 2006

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AAR-FRA Cooperative Agreement

• Universal Onboard Platform (UPO) Project
• Obtained and reviewed clarifications to proposals
  received.
• Have begun negotiation of contract terms and
  conditions with one vendor.
• Negotiate extension of proposal validity with one
  vendor due to funding availability timeline.

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RRF-FRA Cooperative Agreement

• Messaging Standards
• ARINC continues to facilitate telecons for the
  ERAD working group of the Railway Electronics
  Standards Committee. Efforts are focused on
  interoperability lab set up, test of an ERAD
  application over a foreign network, and planning
  for connectivity to the UNL test bed site through
  BNSF's interoperability lab.
• Produced a draft a White Paper on Interoperable
  Messaging
• Industry CBTC Test Bed at TTC
• Continued development of design documentation for
  train simulator, dispatch simulator, and test
  environment controller
• Employee in Charge Portable Remote Terminal (EIC
  PRT)
• Held October 19 design demonstration at the AAR
  Offices
• Attended by FRA, AAR, and member railroads
• All work stopped for 9 weeks pending FRA approval
  of administrative change in budget allocations

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RRF-FRA Cooperative Agreement

• 220 MHz RCL Test Bed Development
• TTCI continues to develop test requirements, test
  plans and test procedures to complete the CAI
  specification
• Discussion and Decision Needed
• Should TTCI proceed, at this time, with the
  development of a facility to test compliance of
  radios to the CAI specification?
• Higher Performance Data Radio
• Held QA meeting with prospective RFI respondents
  and granted a two week extension of the RFI
  response period.
• RFI responses received from 5 suppliers.

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WiNG
Wireless Next Gen
RESC Dec 13, 2006
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HPDR Timeline
Dec 12--Review of five respondents to RFI
Dec 19--Distribute materials from Dec 12 meeting
Jan 2--Send letters to respondents
Jan 10--Cutoff for more Clarification Cycle
questions
Jan 11--WiNG Conference Call
Jan 17--Clarification questions to respondents
Feb 16--Deadline for responses to Clarification
Cycle
Feb 22--WiNG Conference Call
Mar 6--Face-to-face meeting with surviving
contenders
TBD--Final determination of vendor(s) to go
forward
TBD--Bench POC tests
TBD--Field Trials
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