NextGen: Next Generation Air Transportation System

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NextGen Next Generation Air Transportation
System
Federal Aviation Administration

• An Overview for the 2008
• Lunch and Learn Information Sessions

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What is NextGen?

• NextGen is a wide ranging transformation of the
  entire national air transportation system not
  just certain pieces of it to meet future
  demands and to avoid gridlock in the sky and in
  the airports while improving safety and
  protecting the environment.
• NextGen moves away from ground-based surveillance
  and navigation to new, more dynamic
  satellite-based systems. These changes are well
  beyond our legacy modernization programs.
• NextGen will change the way the system operates,
  reduce congestion, expand capacity, reduce noise
  and emissions and improve the passenger
  experience.

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The Need for NextGen

• Demand on the system is great today and pressure
  will continue to build as commercial aircraft,
  general aviation, tower and en route operations
  increase dramatically

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What Needs to be Improved?

• Todays system
• Old, expensive, slow and built for 1950s radar
• Ground-based, not up-to-date
• Not sufficiently automated
• Too dependent on voice communication
• Aging infrastructure
• Cannot sustain air transportation in global
  economy

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What Changes Improve Services?
NextGen Satellite-based navigation and
surveillance Routine information sent
digitally Networked Information systems Air
traffic management Forecasts embedded into
decisions Operations continue into lower
visibility conditions

• Today
• Ground-based navigation and surveillance
• Air Traffic Control communications by voice
• Disconnected information systems
• Air traffic control
• Fragmented weather forecasts
• Airport operations limited by visibility
  conditions

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NextGen What It Isnt

• NextGen is not a single project. NextGen
  integrates many projects, concepts and
  technologies.
• NextGen is not a program plan. NextGen integrates
  many program plans to deliver new service
  capabilities to meet new demands.
• NextGen is not simply a new system. NextGen
  integrates new systems, new procedures, new
  aircraft capabilities, new supporting
  infrastructure and a new way to do business as
  the Air Transportation System.

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Operational Evolution Partnership (OEP)

• Explains how FAA will integrate and implement
  NextGen capabilities
• Tracks investments
• Provides timeline for implementation
• Tracks FAA commitments

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OEP Domains

• Airport Development
• New concrete
• Focus on OEP 35 airports
• Adds 15 metropolitan regions
• Aircraft Operator Requirements
• New Avionics
• Determines requirements that will enable NextGen
  capabilities
• Air Traffic Operations
• Transformational programs and capabilities
• Integrated cross-agency activities produce
  solutions to support JPDO vision

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Airport Development OEP 35 Airports
NextGen provides new infrastructure at nations
busiest airports. In the last 7 years, 13 new
runways (20 miles of pavement) have opened at OEP
airports, with the potential to accommodate 1.6
million more annual operations and decrease
average delay per operation at these airports by
about 5 minutes.
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Airport Development Metro Areas
NextGen adds 15 metro areas capacity-constrained
in 2025
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Aircraft Operator Requirements

• NextGen aircraft will have more onboard
  capabilities and associated crew training
  including ability to perform airborne
  self-separation, precisely navigate and execute
  four-dimensional trajectories and improved
  surveillance technologies. Unmanned aircraft
  systems will operate among regular aircraft and
  domestic supersonic cruise operations will be
  more prevalent.
• This represents a significant change in the
  aircrafts role and equipage requirements. FAA
  estimates that NextGen avionics will cost
  operators 15 - 20 billion and will be developed
  through government-industry partnership.
  Operators have already made it clear they cannot
  afford multiple, fragmented aircraft
  modifications.

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Air Traffic Operations

• Seven (7) Solution Sets target
• Capacity, Efficiency, Safety and Security of air
  transportation operations

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NextGen is Already Underway!

• Five (5) NextGen Transformational Programs
• Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADSB)
  
• System Wide Information Management (SWIM)
• Data Communications
• NextGen Network Enabled Weather (NNEW)
• NAS Voice Switch (NVS)
• Example of Mid-Term Initiatives Surface
  Management
• Demonstrations
• Implementation and Integration Efforts

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Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
(ADS-B)

• Automatic
• Periodically transmits information with no pilot
  or operator input required
• Dependent
• Position and velocity vector are derived from the
  Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Surveillance
• A method of determining position of aircraft,
  vehicles, or other asset
• Broadcast
• Transmitted information available to anyone with
  the appropriate receiving equipment

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System Wide Information Management (SWIM)
NextGen System Wide Information Management
Today Point to Point Information Management
Business as Usual(NextGen without SWIM)
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Data Communications

• Data Communications provides
• Two-way data between controllers, automation and
  flight crews
• Safety-of-flight air traffic control clearances,
  instructions, traffic flow management, flight
  crew requests and reports
• Automation enhancements for ATC message
  generation and exchange
• Communications link carrying data between
  aircraft and air traffic managers
• The Data Communications program reflects
  recommendations received from airspace users and
  the international aviation community. For
  example, user input encourages maximum use of
  existing airborne capabilities to deliver
  services.

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NextGen Network Enabled Weather (NNEW)

• A net-enabled distribution of weather information
  to enhance collaborative and dynamic NAS decision
  making.
• It is a 4-Dimensional Weather Data Cube that
  draws information from multi-agency sources into
  a consolidated virtual data cube for aviation
  users

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NAS Voice Switch (NVS)

• Current voice architecture is limiting,
  inflexible and does not support sharing
  communication within and across facility
  boundaries. NVS replaces existing voice switches
  at En Route, Terminal and support facilities with
  network-capable switches to enable flexible voice
  communications.

Communications Infrastructure in Air Traffic
Facilities
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Status 5 Transformational Programs

• ADS-B
• Infrastructure includes ground stations and
  aircraft avionics.
• Deployment begins in 2008
• 793 ground stations installed by 2013
• SWIM
• Enterprise Management of Information
• Contract award begins FY08
• Data Communications
• Automation enhancements
• Contract award FY10
• Key site (en route and tower) 2014

• NNEW
• Weather data with SWIM as pipeline
• Investment Decision 2010
• NAS Voice Switch
• Plans dependent on facilities decisions
• Contract award FY10
• Key site 2012

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Example of NextGen Mid-Term Initiatives Surface
Management

• Ensure safety by warning pilots of active runways
• ADS-B will provide traffic situation to pilot on
  cockpit displays
• Data Communications will provide taxi-clearances
  without voice and displayed in cockpit with
  moving maps
• Surface traffic management tools will maximize
  use of runways so more routes with closer spacing
• Enhancements to Traffic Management Advisor assign
  routes and sequences

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NextGen Demonstrations
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Implementation Integration Crosses Programs and
Efforts

AirspaceRedesign
Technology
Procedures
Avionics
NextGen
Research
Rulemaking
Certification
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NextGen Implementation is FAA-Wide
ARC
ABA
AIO
JPDO
ASH
AEP
Deputy Administrator Overall Responsibility for
NextGen Associates Accountable for NextGen
Implementation Review Board Integrates
Cross-agency Activities ATO Vice President of
Operations Planning Services Responsible for
Delivery, Integration and Oversight Operational
Evolution Partnership Tactical Management
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For More NextGen Information

• Joint Planning and Development Office
• http//jpdo.gov/
• Operational Evolution Partnership
• http//faa.gov/programs/oep