FAA Roles And Responsibilities in the MDCRS Program

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FAA Roles And Responsibilities in the MDCRS
Program
MDCRS Management Team
Sandra Schmidt
September 7, 2006
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FAA Organizational Responsibilities
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IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS
RESEARCH
OPERATIONS
PROTOTYPE
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
NGATS
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MDCRS Data Processing by ARINC

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Contract Agreement

• Service Provider
• ARINC
• Period of Performance
• 1 year contract with 4 option years
• Participating Airlines
• AA, Delta, FedEx, NWA, SWA, UPS, United
• Data Provided
• Over 100,000 in-situ observations per day

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MDCRS Coverage over the CONUS
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• FY
• 2006

• FY
• 2025

Topics to Discuss??? Vision Goals Optimization Sta
ndardization
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Priorities

• Maintain current operational system
• Maintain partnership with airlines
• Obtain additional data in data sparse areas
• Obtain additional data below FL200
• Increase number of participating airlines
• Enhance turbulence, water vapor and icing data
• Manage communication cost
• Optimize data
• Align current program with future NGATS vision