FAA PowerPoint from UAS Action Summit – Looking to the Future

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UAS Action Summit UAS 2020 – Looking to the Future June 2, 2011 Dean Fulmer, Acting Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Group, AJV-13 Richard Prosek, Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Program Office, AFS-407

Overview • Recent Changes at FAA on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) • Updates: – FAA UAS Activities – small UAS (sUAS) Rule – FAA Reauthorization Bills

• Test Range Considerations

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UAS Offices at FAA (changes/new) • Aviation Safety (AVS) – Unmanned Aircraft Program Office, AFS-407 – Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) branches in the 8 Flight Standards Service regions • Air Traffic Organization (ATO) – UAS Group, AJV-13 – Service Areas (Eastern, Central, Western) • Other Stakeholders – NextGen and Operations Planning – Now under the Deputy Administrator (ADA) – Research & Technology Development, AJP-6

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Federal Aviation Administration J. Randolph Babbitt AOA-1 Administrator

Peggy Gilligan Associate Administrator, AVS-1 Aviation Safety

John Allen Director, AFS-1 Flight Standards Service

Michael Huerta

David Grizzle

ADA-1 Deputy Administrator

Acting Chief Operating Officer, AJO-O Air Traffic Organization

Victoria Cox

Rick Ducharme

Senior Vice President, AJP-O NextGen and Operations Planning

Senior Vice President, AJN-O Operations

Paul Fontaine

Elizabeth Lynn Ray

Director, AJP-6 Office of Aviation Research

Vice President, AJV-O Mission Support Services

Paula Nouragas

Dennis Roberts

Manager, AJP-65 Engineering Development Services Group

Director, AJV-1 Airspace Services

Leslie Smith Manager, AFS-400 Flight Technologies and Procedures Division

Richard Prosek Manager, AFS-407 Unmanned Aircraft Program Office

Offices Co-Located with Military and Other Government UAS Liaisons

Dean Fulmer Acting Manager, AJV-13 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Group 05/02/2011

Evolution of UAS NAS Integration • Accommodation – Certificates of Waiver or Authorization (COAs) for Public Operators • 264 active COAs / 85 Proponents / 82 Aircraft

– Special Airworthiness Certificate – Experimental Category (SAC-EC) for Civil • 88 issued since 2005 • Currently 15 active on 14 different aircraft types

– AC 91-57 (Model Aircraft Operating Standards) for modelers

• Integration into the National Airspace System (NAS) • Integration into the NextGen NAS UAS Action Summit: UAS 2020 – Looking to the Future Grand Forks, ND June 2, 2011

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Highlights of Past Year (sampling)

• Dedication of the NextGen Integration and Evaluation Capability (NIEC) (Tech Center) – 6/10 • Revision to FAA Order 8130.34A (Experimentals: added optionally-piloted aircraft) – 10/10 • Federal Public NAS Integration Plan submitted to Congress in response to National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requirements – 10/10 • Sense and Avoid Workshop II Kickoff – 11/10 UAS Action Summit: UAS 2020 – Looking to the Future Grand Forks, ND June 2, 2011

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Highlights of Past Year Continued (sampling)

• Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) on UAS Study – Completed 3/11 • Start up of the first Ground-based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) system at El Mirage, CA – 4/11 • small UAS Rule Final Team Concurrence – 5/11

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Current Work • Update to Interim Guidance Material 08-01 • Stand up of the UAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) – Mechanism to bring in input from industry along with the other Government partners – First product will be an update to the FAA Civil/Public UAS Roadmap for UAS NAS Integration

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Current Work Continued • Development of FAA Concept of Operations (ConOps) • Development of UAS Research and Development (R&D) Management Plan – OMB passback language to all NextGen Partners (FAA, Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Commerce (DOC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), etc.)

– Due September 30, 2011 UAS Action Summit: UAS 2020 – Looking to the Future Grand Forks, ND June 2, 2011

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Interdependencies between Civil/Public UAS Roadmap and ConOps Today

Current NAS

2025

UAS ConOps

JPDO R&D Plan: Considers Collective Interagency R&D Needs

COAs Limited Civil UAS Ops

Common R&D Elements Joint R&D Efforts Leverage data & results

Existing Policy and Regs Interim Approval Guidance

NextGen •Concepts •Technologies •Requirements UAS Integration Future Policy and Regs Standards

FAA UAS Integration Roadmap: Identifies what products & milestones are needed to get there (ARC) Regulation

Standards

Certification

Procedures

FAA UAS R&D Plan: Identifies the R&D needed to develop products & milestones

Certification

FAA UAS R&D Industry AJV

COAs

Congress

AJP-6

External

UAS R&D

Influences

Requests AVS

NASA

Processes Air Force Research Laborator y

Others

JPDO FAA Communication & Collaboration

14 CFR, Part 107 Rule: small UAS Purpose of the regulation: • Enable small UAS to operate safely in limited portions of the NAS • Gather data

Focus: • Enable the widest range of activity that can be safely conducted within the shortest rulemaking timeframe

• Timeline: • Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) – Fall 2011

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Status of FAA Reauthorization Bill • Senate has passed S. 223 – UAS-related sections are 320 and 607

• House has passed H.R. 658 – UAS-related sections are 321 through 325 & 1004

• Bills are in conference – Rules provide committee little opportunity for introduction of new items or major changes to existing provisions

• House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair John Mica’s 5/25/11 blog opines that passage of a reauthorization bill this summer is unlikely

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International Activities • ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization ) UAS Study Group • EUROCAE Working Group 73 • EUROCONTROL Action Plan 24 – Modeling and Simulation

• FINAS (Flight In Nonsegregated Airspace) – North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) activity

• JARUS (Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems) (Netherlands + 15) • AMAP (Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Program)

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UAS Test Range Facts • UAS test ranges are addressed in: – H.R. 658 – S. 223 – NDAA, Section1098

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UAS Test Range Questions (1) • Will there be UAS test ranges if there is no reauthorization bill?

• Will the selection process be transparent?

• Will the FAA Acquisition Management System (AMS) be used for selection?

• Will a Screening Information Request (SIR) be used to obtain recommendations from potential offerors about site and operator requirements?

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UAS Test Range Questions (2) • Who is the intended user of test ranges – civil, public, or mix?

• Will test ranges need to: – – – –

be similar/identical? provide conventional takeoff and landing capability? provide opportunity for high speed flight? provide opportunity for extremely high altitude operations?

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UAS Test Range Questions (3) • What is the vehicle for establishment of a test range?

– Cooperative Research & Development Agreement – Other?

• What is the vehicle for transiting from takeoff and landing location to working area (if required)?

– COA, SAC-EC, or other?

• What will the working area look like?

– Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 91, Section 305 (Flight test area) requirements?

– Underused military operations area?

– New or different type of airspace?

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UAS Test Range Questions (4) • Other considerations – operator’s ability to: – – – – –

Provide a detailed Concept of Operations Manage and oversee R & D activities Mitigate risk Indemnify the operation (insurance) Obtain necessary frequency spectrum

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FAA Road Ahead • Today/Ongoing – Improve COA guidance and process – Refine FAA Civil/Public UAS Roadmap – Plan/oversee research and development activities – Gather safety data!!

• Near term – Implement advanced mitigations (GBSAA, others) – Increase NAS access through sUAS rule • Long term – Eliminate the preliminary and advanced mitigations and integrate into the NextGen environment UAS Action Summit: UAS 2020 – Looking to the Future Grand Forks, ND June 2, 2011

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Information http://www.faa.gov/go/uas Rick Prosek, Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Program Office (202) 385-4576 richard.prosek@faa.gov Dean Fulmer, Acting Manager, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Group (763) 229-0734 dean.fulmer@faa.gov

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