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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 98 - Williamsburg - October 2006
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.1 Government Agencies Summary Reports 4.1.5 FAA 4.1.5.1 Tech Center
Title	Tech Center
Presenter	Stanley Pszczolkowski
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Abstract	Some recent events at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) include the implementation of the new air traffic controller contract, efforts to accommodate very light jets and the A380 in the National Airspace System, the appointment of directors for the Joint Planning and Development Office (www.jpdo.aero) and the FAA Technical Center (www.tc.faa.gov) and considerable activities on the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS or NextGen ATS). These last include the expansion of the current “Operational Evolution Plan” to the “Operational Evolution Partnership” (www.faa.gov/programs/oep/partnership), approval to begin the implementation of several enabling technologies and the identification of a number of projects as NextGen ATS related. There are also several funding-related requests to accelerate/begin NextGen ATS architecture, research, human factors and facility related studies, analyses and demonstrations. The FAA has approved the implementation of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) (www.adsb.gov), a NextGen ATS “contributor” program. ADS-B equipped aircraft broadcast their internally derived position (GPS and/or FMS) to/for the use of other ADS-B equipped aircraft and the ground system. An air/ground functional architecture, definition of services and an implementation schedule have been developed. Two primary capabilities include Traffic Information Service (TIS) and Flight Information Service (FIS). TIS provides ADS-B equipped aircraft with position reports from secondary surveillance radar on non-ADS-B equipped aircraft. FIS transmits National weather Service products, temporary flight restrictions and special use airspace information. Other planned services support enhanced visual awareness operations, conflict detection and final approach, runway occupancy and airport surface awareness. There will be a geographically segmented implementation that builds upon previous efforts. The initial services will be available in 2010 with additional capabilities planned through 2025.