ATCA Bulletin | March 2014

Air Traffic Control Association

March 2014

ATCA’s 2014

Technical Symposium

May 13-15, 2014 – You Need To Be There

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By Peter F. Dumont, President & CEO, Air Traffic Control Association

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n March, ATCA traveled to Madrid to host World ATM Congress in conjunction with the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO). The event attracted 6,265 attendees and we were able to witness industry organizations, air navigation service providers, and government officials from 120 countries coming together to make business agreements and learn best practices from one another. I encourage you to visit www.worldatmcongress.org to view the recap video showing highlights of the event – it encapsulates the spirit and success of the show.

Upon returning from World ATM Congress, I testified at a U.S. Congressional field hearing before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Aviation on “Moving NextGen Forward: Leveraging the Assets of the William J. Hughes Technical Center.” I proudly represented our association as a steadfast supporter of the Tech Center.

ATCA has traveled to Atlantic City for much of its history, and we will return on May 13 to discuss the air traffic issues that matter, learn about and view new advances in the field, and network with other ATC and airspace professionals.

We have confirmed Tina Amereihn, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as the keynote speaker for the event. Tina is an excellent addition to the lineup of already top-notch speakers. She has held her current role for nearly two years, and in addition, carries more than 30 years of government service.

Amereihn’s voice will add a much needed perspective to the Technical Symposium.

Attendees of ATCA events have come to Tina Amereihn expect seniorlevel decision makers addressing important issues, and they will find this in Atlantic City.

This Bulletin contains a wealth of information about the events happening during the week of the Technical Symposium. I encourage you to reserve your spot now – some tours are already sold out. From the panels of experienced speakers to the specialized tours taking place at Tech Center Tuesday, you will not want to miss it. I look forward to seeing you in Atlantic City.

Upcoming Events

June 2, 2014

FAA Budget Briefing Presented by ATCA Washington, D.C. Area Sept. 28 – Oct. 1, 2014

ATCA 59th Annual Conference & Exposition Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center National Harbor, Md.

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TCA is headed to Atlantic City, N.J. from May 13-15, 2014. There, attendees will gain constant exposure to government and industry partners in a unique venue. Here are the three top reasons you should attend:

1. Quality Content Roundtable panels and audience engagement are always part of the ATCA experience. And ATCA is returning to the William J. Hughes Technical Center for Tech Center Tuesday for two half-day sessions devoted to exhibits and meeting with the experts. In

attendance are speakers from the FAA, NASA, organizations like Sesar Joint Undertaking, the airlines, and more.

2. Networking From the breaks and after-hours reception, this is the venue to make the right connections in ATM and aviation.

3. One-on-One Time with Exhibitors From the golf course to the lunch hour, this event will give you the opportunity for personalized access to some of the top minds in aviation.

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ATCA 2014 TECHNICAL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Join us May 12-15, 2014 for four days of the latest developments in ATM technology, key exhibits and important networking opportunities ›› Monday, May 12 2 – 5 p.m. - Registration Open Resorts’ Ballroom

›› Tuesday, May 13 (Tech Center Tuesday) 7 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. - Registration Open

Resorts’ Ballroom. Tech Center Tuesday tours are listed at www.atca.org/TechCenterTuesdayACY

6 - 7:30 p.m. - Welcome Reception

›› Wednesday, May 14 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. - Registration Open Resorts’ Hotel Ballroom

8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Horizon Room

8 – 9 a.m. - Welcome Coffee & Continental Breakfast Resorts’ Hotel Ballroom

9 – 10 a.m. - Welcome & Opening Remarks

Superstar Theater Peter F. Dumont, President & CEO, Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Dr. John Cavolowsky, Director of the Airspace Systems Program Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Dennis Filler, Director, William J. Hughes Technical Center, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

9 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. - Exhibit Hall Open Resorts’ Ballroom

10 – 10:45 a.m. - Refreshment Break Resorts’ Ballroom

10:45 – 12:00 p.m. - Trajectory 4-D Information and Exchange

Trajectory Operations (TOps) is one of the key transformational capabilities being introduced by NextGen as well as other Service Providers throughout the globe. The TOps Concept represents a fundamental shift of Air Traffic Management (ATM) from issuing clearances that are vector-based to clearances that are trajectory-based. This shift will be enabled by more strategic time-based planning and the exchange of information between ANSP and Flight Operations Center (FOC), ground automation systems and aircraft avionics. This panel will discuss the various aspects of implementing 4-Dimensional Trajectory into the airspace, and how changes (technology, policy, procedures, etc.) must take place from how the systems around the globe operate today. The panel will provide perspectives from users, automation and avionics system developers, airline operations, and Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP).

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12 – 1:15 p.m. - Luncheon Buffet Resorts’ Ballroom

1:45 – 2:45 p.m. - Improving Terminal/Surface Operations

One of the key challenges to enabling NextGen is to improve operations in the terminal airspace. NASA and FAA are working collaboratively through Research Transition Teams to develop and demonstrate new capabilities that aim to improve terminal area efficiency and operations. Tools recently transitioned to the FAA include NASA’s Precision Departure Release Capability (PDRC), and Terminal Sequencing and Spacing (TSS), and En-Route Descent Advisor.

2:45 – 3:45 p.m. - Safety Committee Debrief and White Paper Unveiling

This panel will debrief the audience about the white paper that was recently submitted to the FAA. The session will incorporate an open discussion between panelists and attendees.

4 – 4:45 p.m. - Networking Break Resorts’ Ballroom

4:45 – 5 p.m. - Enhancement of Collaborative Environment to Accommodate System & Capability Level Verification & Validation

This panel will discuss the existing aviation distributed Live Virtual Constructive Environment (LVCE), its current capabilities, recent enhancements, and future requirements to support research and testing for a complex aviation system – the National Airspace System (NAS). What new tools, capabilities, and models are required to fully exercise the NAS/NextGen under a variety of realistic scenarios and fidelity levels to support the successful delivery of NextGen systems and operational improvements? The panel will discuss new initiatives underway within NASA (SMART NAS), the FAA, Industry, and DoD (Defense Modeling and Simulation Office) to enhance and evolve the LVCE. Examples of studies and the benefits that this environment offers will be presented with a focus on concept validation, requirements maturity, and technology transition.

5 – 6:30 p.m.

Resorts’ Ballroom

Networking Reception with Exhibitors

›› Thursday, May 15 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Resorts’ Ballroom

8 – 11:45 a.m.

Horizon Room

Registration Open

SYMPOSIUM

8 – 9 a.m. - Continental Breakfast 9 – 9:30 p.m. - Tina Amereihn

Deputy Assistant Administrator for Information Services and Chief Information Officer, FAA

9:15 – 1:45 Exhibit Hall Open 9:30 – 10:45 a.m. The Digital Enterprise

Digital Enterprise will discuss emerging technologies, applications and technical architectures (Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Mobility, industry standards, shared services) in a digital ecosystem and their relationship to supporting aviation’s access to NAS information to support operational needs. The panel will also discuss the evolving role of AIT as a shared services organization and how policy, governance and technology may need to evolve to address AIT’s role in the NAS.

10:45 – 11:30 a.m.

Resorts’ Ballroom

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Networking Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. NextGen Progress: Measuring our Success

Integrating NextGen capabilities to transform the National Airspace System is a complex effort. This panel will provide an update on NextGen programs, progress implementing NextGen capabilities, results, and benefits realized to date. Specific topics will include OAPM/PBN; surface enhancements (surveillance and decision support tools); DataComm; and the qualitative and quantitative tools and methods used to measure and report NextGen progress emphasizing the linkage between investments and benefits.

12:45 – 1:45 p.m.

Resorts’ Ballroom

Luncheon Buffet

1:45 – 3 p.m. Operational User & Maintainers Perspectives: Collaborating in NextGen Operations

This panel will discuss the work underway and future plans for supporting the collaborative information enterprise. Topics include benefits, lessons learned, challenges and proposed solutions, with specific emphasis on program areas such as: Airborne Access to SWIM; Trajectory 4-D information exchange; Collaborative Air Traffic Management Technologies; NavLean; and the evolution of system status and health monitoring for Technical Operations to include remote maintenance monitoring. The panel will also highlight the types of future models (centralized/decentralized) for enterprise wide information access and sharing required to support first- and secondlevel engineering, operations, and maintenance.

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Symposium Summary and Closing Remarks

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TRAFFIC JAM AHEAD. PLAN ACCORDINGLY.

Transforming the air traffic management (ATM) system is essential for improving safety, efficiency and the environment around the globe.

Boeing is fully committed and uniquely qualified to help make ATM transformation a reality. It’s the right time and Boeing is the right partner.

ATCA MEMBERS

ATCA’s Newest Members

Here are the newest members to the ATCA family!

Welcome to the association!

Ben Latigo, Daniel Webster College

Cary Countryman

Joshua Adinolfo

Joseph Eichenberger, The Community College of Baltimore County

John Coggin, VT UASTS Emily Wyman Neal Dillman, All Weather, Inc. John Wiley, Stockton Aviation Research and Technology Park of New Jersey, Inc. Konstantinos Soteropoulos, Daniel Webster College Joseph Bolen

Doug Kendzierski, The Community College of Baltimore County Chris Komsa, The Community College of Baltimore County Hal Rummel, The Community College of Baltimore County

Michael Burmeister

Douglas Williams, The Community College of Baltimore County

Steven Daniel-Hamberg

Benjamin Ashley

Kevin Meyers

Brian Barrelle, EIZO Inc.

Nathan Orta

Brian Cote, EIZO Inc.

Armando Sandoval, USAF

Mark Gorsuch, EIZO Inc.

Bill Scott, FAA

Selwyn Henriques, EIZO Inc.

Samantha Thompson

Joey Sanchez, EIZO Inc.

Michael Cahal

James Scott, Community College of Beaver County

Kiana Aukai

Patrick Beargie

Tyler McLaughlin

Tom Draggoo, JTA

Bethany Sailor

Hirsh Singh

Joshua Stefanski

Bill White, JTA

Steven Beck

Dana Zucker, 1989

Cameron Gonzalez

Michael Golka

Thomas Jargiello, Miami Dade College, EIG Watson School of Aviation

Catherine Bigelow, William J. Hughes Technical Center

Chris Wallace

Olga Waters, A3 Technology, Inc.

Alberto Acosta

Trevor Benthusen

Peter Kolb

Stephen Kintner, LeTourneau University

Toni Thompson, Plastic-View ATC, Inc.

Jace Moller, AT-CTI

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How Unmanned Aircraft Systems Will Drive the FAA’s Facilities and Equipment Budget Within the Next 10 Years

By Gary R. Church, Aviation Management Associates, Inc.

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growing number of early adopters and innovators of aviation technologies are beginning to realize the significance of a growing diversity and number of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and vehicles (UAV).

This growth, driven by a confluence of technological developments in airframes, powerplants, sensor, command, and control systems and information management, portend an economic growth of this industry projected to be $30 billion per year supporting 300,000 American jobs1 by 2035 as a world leader in UAS aircraft and technology.

This technology supports an incredibly wide range of uses that not only allows old challenges to be addressed in new ways but also creates new innovative world markets for hundreds, if not thousands, of new creative applications answering the call of better, faster and cheaper.

From an aviation perspective, UAS represents a new and disruptive technology challenging the staid institutions, policy, procedures, and technologies that exist today and have served

manned aircraft for the last 50 years or more. Who would have thought that moving a pilot from the air to the ground would cause so much potential disruption affecting the see-and-avoid rules that are the basic foundation to our aviation institutions, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s air traffic control system. Surely this cannot be correct – let us take a look.

Today’s Air Traffic Control System Today’s air traffic control system is built around four basic pillars: communications, navigation, surveillance, and infrastructure. The mortar holding these pillars together is aviation policy, rules and procedures.

In terms of procedural change the FAA Air Traffic Organization (ATO) has identified more than 25 FAA orders and notices that will need to be revised to address UAS operations in the National Airspace System (NAS). This does not include advisory and informational materials that need to be developed and briefed to air traffic controllers, pilots and other aviation stakeholders.

NAS investments to accommodate UAS efforts and associated costs go far beyond training requirements and procedural developments to include modification of infrastructure to permit and optimize efficiency and safety of UAS operations in the NAS. It needs to be recognized that UAS operating in the NAS today are predominantly operated by the Department of Defense (DoD). They were not designed with NAS compatibility in mind but rather to meet military mission needs.

It is expected future commercial UAS will be designed and operated much more along the lines of manned aircraft. For example, current DoD UAS do not have Flight Management Systems

It needs to be recognized that UAS operating in the NAS today are predominantly operated by the Department of Defense (DoD).

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FROM THE MEMBER: INSIGHT INTO THE TOP AVIATION ISSUES and associated NAS aeronautical database and cannot be programed to fly approved FAA instrument procedures such as an instrument landing system (ILS) approach. Future commercial UAS operating in the NAS will need have integrated avionics systems and NAS capabilities similar to those of manned aircraft. However, unique challenges associated with UAS will remain and drive functional changes across many NAS project and programs. Some of these anticipated drivers or changes are listed by FAA program area below.

En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) ERAM will be affected by the need to accept, process and display lengthy and complex UAS flight plans that include automated flight profile contingencies to the air traffic controller. This includes the ability to display a projected realtime 20-minute planned route of flight on a controller’s display suite.

ERAM needs to be able to display, review, modify and approve a UAS flight plan request originating in an

en route center airspace environment as a 24-hour file and fly replacement to the current constrained Certificate of Authorization (COA) process now in use to approve domestic UAS operations.

National Voice System (NVS) Future air traffic control voice switching systems must be able to provide timely and direct pilot to controller voice and data (i.e., text messaging) communications via Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP).

Terminal Automation Modernization and Replacement (TAMR) TAMR needs to be able to display, review, modify and approve a UAS flight plan request originating in a terminal airspace environment as a 24-hour file and fly replacement to the current constrained Certificate of Authorization (COA) process now is use. TAMR also needs to be able to survey approved UAS flights within its terminal environment.

Terminal Information Display System (IDS) and En Route Information Display System (ERIDS) Information support systems need to be able to ingest, process, and rapidly display unique local procedures and associated graphics associated with UAS operations. These include pilot communications and command lost link and air traffic control lost communications

procedures.

System Wide Information Management (SWIM) SWIM must be able to rapidly move critical UAS information around the NAS to provide the right information to the right person at the right time and in the right format.

Flight Information Exchange Model (FIXM) UAS flight information needs to move to and from other Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) throughout the world and new data terminology must be created that supports the collection, processing and dissemination of UAS movements through the airspace.

Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solutions (ATCOTS) UAS provides new training challenges for FAA in creating new teaching curricula that contains new procedures and paradigms used to accommodate UAS safely and efficiently in the NAS. This is a notable challenge given the diversity and dynamic of evolving UAS technologies and missions.

Future Facilities FAA real estate assets may likely be affected as new UAS related systems are development and deployed. UAS NAS integration may drive additional FAA manpower needs for positions of operations, coordination and management.

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FROM THE MEMBER: INSIGHT INTO THE TOP AVIATION ISSUES footprints to accommodate new positions of operations, personnel and their supporting infrastructure.

Next Generation Weather Processor (NWP) and Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) The removal of a pilot in the cockpit also removes the ability to “see” from a traditional pilot’s perspective. Not only does this relate to the need for electronic systems for detect and avoid (i.e., the FAR reference 91.113 for see and avoid) but also affects many aspects of flight safety associated with detection and avoidance of hazardous weather from visual perspective of the manned cockpit. Determination of flight visibility is one such factor. It should also be noted that many of the UAS flying in the NAS today have a very low tolerance to hazardous weather such as turbulence and icing.

Traffic Flow Management Effects on current Traffic Flow Management infrastructure can be expected in the future as UAS mission needs may have to be closely coordinated across multiple airspace and user domains.

Detect and Avoid (DAA) Depending upon architecture and functionality DAA for UAS could have a profound affect on a variety of FAA systems and infrastructure. DAA can be airborne based and affect Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) In and Out and an associated Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI) and Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) functionality including designs for the new Next Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems (ACAS-X).

Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA)

that levers ASR-11 Surveillance Radars and Standard Terminal Automation Replacement Systems (STARS) or Terminal Automation Modernization and Replacement (TAMR) also demands automation and surveillance system modification to provide this capability. Additional future work on portable primary three-dimensional (3D) radars integrated in the NAS will also demand.

Hopefully the brief overview of FAA air traffic control systems above funded by FAA’s Facilities and Equipment budget illustrates the pervasiveness of effects UAS will eventually have on air traffic control and its supporting infrastructure. Obviously if future UAS forecasts are sustained it will entail a major shift in traditional air traffic control roles and responsibilities and have a profound affect on NAS system design and operation.

Many of the paradigms shifts

expected reflect the original expectations from NextGen that transformational changes are coming. Surprisingly they are coming from a domain never really imagined or considered when the JPDO and NextGen were launched a few years ago. Unforeseen developments will be coming for a number of years ahead with any number of unintended consequences yet to be revealed.

It is important to recognize these changes need to be recognized, planned for, funded and deployed. It must also be recognized that these UAS related investments do not stand alone but lever and prioritize many needed or planned air traffic control system improvements and investments such as the National Voice Switch, Future Facilities, Cyber Security, Data Communications and others.

Thus far recognition for UAS needs have been slow, planning uncertain and funding virtually nonexistent. To be bold, this agenda will require an increase in funding levels of between $500 million and $1 billion dollars per year over and above the current base FAA Facilities and Equipment (F&E) funding levels in order for the FAA not to be an economic inhibitor or barrier to the growth of a $30 billion per year UAS industry.

Gary Church is the principal of Aviation Management Associates, Inc.

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