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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 106 - La Jolla - October 2010
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Government Agencies Summary Reports 4.2.2 FAA 4.2.2.1 Tech Center
Title	Tech Center
Presenter	Stanley Pszczolkowski
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Abstract	The Federal Aviation Administration continues Next Generation Transportation System (NextGen) efforts: research into the Staffed NextGen Tower, required navigation performance / area navigation flight demonstrations, the development of the NextGen Avionics Roadmap, the publication (by the Joint Planning and Development office) of the Air Traffic Management Weather Integration Plan and the establishment of three NextGen Test Beds. The test beds are located in Daytona Beach, Florida (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, industry partners), North Texas Research Station in the Dallas Fort Worth area (NASA) and the FAA Technical Center near Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Technical Center, which has been in existence for over 50 years, is a designated Federal Laboratory with the National Airspace System (NAS) “under one roof”. The Center has a 157,000 sq. ft. air traffic management (ATM) lab that contains one-each of nearly every NAS component. The environment is scalable and robust and is used for research, development, test, integration, human in the loop simulation, operational evaluation and field system support. The Center operates six research aircraft and has an additional 45,000 square feet of labs, including a sophisticated and comprehensive Research and Development Human Factors Laboratory (RDHFL). The RDHFL is used for computer-human-interface prototyping, human-in-the-loop simulations and air traffic workload, efficiency and situational awareness studies. The Center recently established a NextGen Integration and Evaluation Capability (NIEC) Display area. It is integrated into the Center’s ATM lab infrastructure and can be used for specialized studies as well as large scale investigations. The NIEC includes several UAS ground control stations that have been used for initial simulations with planned extensive investigations on the integration of UASs into the NAS. The FAA also signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Boeing/InSitu that includes a ScanEagle ground control station for the NIEC and an operational ground control station along with several air vehicles for use by FAA researchers.