NextGen Integration and Evaluation Capability

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NextGen Integration and Evaluation Capability
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NextGen Test Bed - Big Picture

• Three main components
• Daytona Beach, FL
• ERAU Supported
• Industry Partnerships
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
• NASA research assets
• North TX Research Station
• Atlantic City, NJ
• WJH Technical Center
• NextGen Integration Evaluation Capability (NIEC)

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NextGen Integration Evaluation Capability (NIEC)

• Synergism of lab capabilities already at the Tech
  Center
• Rapid prototyping and simulation environment
  anchored by a new Display Area
• Supports integration and evaluation of new
  NextGen concepts technologies
• Fast time real-time human-in-the-loop
  simulations
• Overall NIEC is scalable with multiple levels of
  fidelity
• NIEC Display Area - medium fidelity
• Main labs - high fidelity
• Good mix of legacy systems and new technologies
• Supports transition to NextGen

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NIEC Display Area (NDA)
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Simulated Tower

• Virtual Airport Immersion System
• Out-the-Window Views (180) for Human-in-the-Loop
  Simulations
• Surface Management Systems
• Airport Surface Detection Equipment Model X
  (ASDEX) Simulator
• Digital Bright Radar Indicator Tower Equipment
  (DBRITE) simulator
• MIT/LL Tower Information Displays System (TIDS)
  and Flight Data Management (FDM)
• Staffed NextGen Tower Simulation
• Used Fuse Message Broker to publish TGF flight
  messages to TIDS and FDM

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Air Traffic Suite

• En Route Radar and Data Positions
• Terminal Positions
• Air to Ground Ground to Ground Communications

• Simultaneous En Route and Terminal Operations
• Multiple Simultaneous Simulations

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Unmanned Aircraft Systems Suite
Shadow
Flight Management System
Predator B Reaper

• Safe Integration of UAS into the National
  Airspace System Now through NextGen
• Fast-Time Real-Time Modeling Simulation
• NextGen Flight Demonstrations UAS and 4D
  Trajectory Based Operations
• Evaluations of UAS and NextGen-Enabling
  Technologies

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Cockpit Simulator

• Avionics and NextGen Integration Validation
• Reconfigurable Glass Cockpit
• Pilot-in-the-Loop Simulations

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Multi-Purpose Area

• Reconfigurable Area
• Multiple Weather Displays
• Traffic Flow Management
• Experimental Operator Station
• Airline Operations Center

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Accomplishments To Date

• Unmanned Aircraft System Simulations
• Cherry Point Simulation December 2009
• Achieved Performance/Shadow 200 December 2009
• Currently Running Initial NAS Integration (INI)
  May July 2010
• Staffed NextGen Tower Simulations
• SNT HITL I February - May 2010
• SNT HITL 1.5 June 2010
• SNT HITL 2 October 2010
• NIEC Display Area Opening Ceremony June 7, 2010

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Future Plans

• NIEC Display Area Opening Ceremony 06/07/2010
• Operational demonstration of capabilities
• Follow-on UAS and SNT work through end of year
• Phased Capability Planning
• Input from System Engineers and Solution Set
  Coordinators to refine capabilities
• Input from Test Community
• Integration with other Test Beds

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Conclusion

• Web Site
• https//employees.faa.gov/org/centers/wjhtc/tc_org
  anization/lab_services_group/csi_team/NIEC/
• Fact Sheet
• Contact Information
• Manager of NIEC
• Hilda DiMeo Hilda.DiMeo_at_faa.gov 609-485-6843
• Point of Contact for all WJHTC laboratories
• Vince Lasewicz Vincent.J.Lasewicz-jr_at_faa.gov
  609-485-6805
• My Contact Information
• Mary Delemarre Mary.Delemarre_at_faa.gov
  609-485-5033