Federal Aviation Administration

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Federal Aviation Administration

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RECENT EVENTS

• Crash of COMAIR 5191 in Lexington, Kentucky
• Air traffic controller contract implemented
  September 3
• Very Light Jets (VLJs) 5,000 possible by 2017
• - Eclipse 500 certified by the FAA
  Session 9.1, Friday morning
• - FAA working to incorporate VLJs into
  National Airspace System
• Airbus A380
• - Increased separation standards for
  approach and landing
• - FAA modeling impact at San Francisco,
  Memphis, Anchorage, JFK
• FAA UAS/UAV Efforts Spring 2007 Meeting
• Technical Centers B727 retired
• New Directors
• Dr. Wilson Felder FAA Technical Center
• Charles Leader Joint Planning and
  Development Office

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Next Generation Air Transportation System

• Congress Tasked Agencies to Form Senior Policy
  Committee
• Secretary of Transportation, Chair
• Secretary of Defense
• Secretary of Homeland Security
• Secretary of Commerce
• Director of the Office of Science and Technology
  Policy
• Administrator of the National Aeronautics and
  Space Administration
• Administrator of the Federal Aviation
  Administration
• Established Joint Planning and Development Office
  (www.jpdo.aero)
• Small and Focused Office
• Close Collaboration with Experts in Government
  and Private Sector
• Delivered Next Generation Air Transportation
  System Integrated Plan (Meet needs of 2025 and
  substantial near term benefits.)

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FAA NextGen ATS Initiatives(NextGen ATS NGATS)

• Establish Operational Evolution Partnership
  (www.faa.gov/programs/oep/partnership)
• Request for FY06/07/08 budget reprogramming/
• acceleration/over target
• Selected projects in FY-08 submission identified
  as NextGen ATS
• contributor
• direct contributor
• transformational
• Initial implementation approval
• System-Wide Information Management
  (transformational)
• Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
  (contributor)

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Reprogramming/Acceleration/Over Target

• Communications investment analyses voice
  architecture
• Expedite advanced NextGen ATS data communication
  concepts
• Cross-domain integration of flight
  plan/trajectory management
• Flight deck and avionics architecture
• Analysis of NextGen ATS Concept impact on FAA
  facilities
• NextGen ATS technology demonstration
• Flight deck/controller/maintainer NextGen ATS
  human factors
• Wake turbulence research (potential separation
  standards reduction)

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Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
(ADS-B)
www.adsb.gov
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Traffic Information Service Broadcast
(TIS)Flight Information Service Broadcast (FIS)
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Function Architecture
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Initial ADS-B Services and Applications
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Combined Legacy and Expansion TIS-B/FIS-B
Coverage
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Segment 1 Locations
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Proposed Segment 1 Schedule