What is NextGen? NextGen is more than just a. Single project It is the integration of many projects, concepts, and technologies.

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• Single project

… It is the

integration of many projects, concepts,

and technologies.

• Program plan…

It is the

integration of many program plans, some

new and some ongoing, to deliver new service capabilities to meet

increasing needs.

• New system

… It is the

integration of

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new systems,

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new procedures,

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new aircraft performance capabilities,

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renewable fuels,

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new supporting infrastructure, and

What is NextGen?

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Objectives Reflect Both Common Goals & Diverse Interests

Improved Access

NextGen

Objectives

Include…

Industry/ Government Partnership Improved Flexibility Stakeholder Equity Noise Reduction Reduced Delay Operational Efficiency Improved Travel Experience Global Harmonization Return on Capital Reduced Emissions Enhanced Safety

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NextGen:

Delivering safety, capacity,

efficiency & environmental stewardship

Today’s National Airspace System NextGen

Ground-based Navigation and Surveillance Air Traffic Control Communications By Voice Disconnected Information Systems

Cognitive-Based Air Traffic “Control” Fragmented Weather Forecasting Airport Operations Limited By Visibility Conditions

Forensic Safety Systems Focus on major airports

Inefficient routes & fuel consumption

Satellite-based Navigation and Surveillance Routine Information Sent Digitally

Information More Readily Accessible Decision Support Tools

Forecasts Embedded into Decisions Operations Continue Into Lower Visibility Conditions

Prognostic Safety Systems Focus on metropolitan areas

Shorter flight paths/ fuel saving procedures; alternative fuels; reduced noise

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Aviation’s Impact on the U.S. Economy Drives the

Importance of NextGen

The growth of the U.S. economy and civil aviation are

vastly interrelated

Aviation Accounts for:

- $12 million aviation-related jobs - $1.3 trillion in economic activity

- 5.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product

Current system constraints contribute to continued congestion despite the decrease in traffic.

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NextGen Benefits - $23B Through 2018

Significant Public Benefits & Improved Passenger Experience

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Mid-Term System: Delivering Benefits Today and Beyond

26%

Delay Reduction vs. No NextGen 2030

$123 Billion

2030

63.8M

Tons CO₂ Cumulative 2030 ₂₀₃₀

_6.7B

Gallons Fuel Cumulative

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Delivering

NextGen

Next Generation Air Transportation System

Delivering

NextGen

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High Altitude Airspace Framework

HIGH Airspace Complexity

FL 340

FL 600

High Altitude, (Trajectory-Based) Airspace Generic Airspace HIGH Airspace Complexity Low to Medium Airspace Complexity Non-Generic Airspace

• Use of a complexity metric will help determine where generic sectors can exist • Some parts of the country may be unsuitable for a generic sector design (Northeast) • To the user, whether the sector is generic (or not) is transparent; operations are the same

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Oceanic Conflict Advisory Trial (OCAT)

Pilot Airline Ops Center Oceanic ATC Pilot Airline Ops Center Oceanic ATC OCAT

AOC Initiated route changes are

requested without knowledge of

available routes. Probability of

denied request is high.

OCAT allows AOC to test

potential routing changes against

synchronized copy of air traffic

data to increase probability of

request acceptance.

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Current Oceanic Route Change

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Delivering

NextGen

Delivering

NextGen

High Density –

Arrivals / Departures

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High Density Solution Set

• Capabilities that improve arrival and departure capacity for multiple airports and runways in high demand airspace.

• Combination of precision procedures, decision support tools, enhanced surface management

• Improved coordination and information sharing will allow for maximum usage of all runways and airspace at close-proximity airports.

• Takes advantage of performance based navigation, traffic flow management

capabilities in the Collaborative Air Traffic Management solution set and builds on the capabilities of the Flexible Terminals and Airports solution set.

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Surface Surveillance and Data Sharing

• Leverage installed ASDE-X infrastructure

• Provides surface traffic data sharing

• Stepping stone for more robust

collaborative decision support tools

Benefits

• Delay reduction

• Reduced fuel burn and environmental

footprint

• Improved situational awareness and

decision making

• Collaborative planning at airport

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Surface Trajectory Based Operations and

Conformance Monitoring

• Metering of aircraft

operating on the airport

surface from gate to

runway

• Automated taxi clearance

delivery and conformance

monitoring

• In-cockpit and in-tower

displays and audible alerts

to pilots and controllers

when an aircraft deviates

from a taxi clearance

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Original path

EGF586 P/DAS 052 061 P/DASC/250 D/240

Stretched Path Meter Fix: DAS Flight: EGF586 Distanc e: 61nm Mag. North Bearing: 52 deg Clearance issued Before TOD Original path

EGF586 P/DAS 052 061 P/DASC/250 D/240

Stretched Path Meter Fix: DAS Flight: EGF586 Distanc e: 61nm Mag. North Bearing: 52 deg Clearance issued Before TOD

Benefits

Maximum use of runway by:

• Getting the right departure aircraft in the right order to maximize throughput

• Getting the right arrival aircraft through the

airspace to the runway to fill every landing opportunity

– Expanding use of terminal procedures into transition airspace

– Using 3-D RNAV/RNP criteria and procedures to “decouple” runways from

shared flows

– Improving the efficiency and delivery of aircraft in time-based metering by utilizing

the aircraft’s capabilities

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Delivering

NextGen

Delivering

NextGen

Flexible Terminals and

Airports - FLEX

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Flexible Airport and Terminal

Navigation Services

Wake Turbulence

Enhanced Procedures

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Overview of FlexTerm

• Increases airport efficiency and capacity

 Enable more aircraft to use airports during

degraded operating conditions

 Enhance secondary airports’ role in metro-area

traffic

• Reduces environmental impacts

 Support fuel-saving and noise-reducing flight

paths

• Enhances safety

 Reduce risk of collision on final approach and on

the airport surface

Air Traffic

Procedures

Automation and

Avionics

Navigation Aids

Wake Turbulence

Mitigation

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FlexTerm: A NextGen “Solution Set”

• Complements Arrivals/Departures at High Density

Airports Solution Set

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High Density Airports are the top 10-15 busiest

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FlexTerm addresses all other airports (different systems and

traffic mix)

• 21 Operational Improvements from National Airspace

System (NAS) Enterprise Architecture

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Alpha segment (2009-2015) underway

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Bravo segment (2016-2018) in definition

• Reflect evolving needs

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• Support quieter and more fuel-efficient arrivals

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Flexible top of descent enables longer cruise

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Smooth (not step down) descents

Air Traffic Procedures: Optimized Descents

EnRoute

Sector

Transition

Sector

Terminal

Airspace

AFTER: Flexible Top of Descent

BEFORE: Constrained Top of Descent

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Navigation Aids: Precision

Approaches

• Deploy Ground-based Augmentation Systems (GBAS)

for precision approaches with lower minimums to more

runways

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Wake Turbulence Mitigation

Fine-tune spacing rules at closely-spaced runways for wake mitigation of

heavy aircraft

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Apply wind monitoring and wake movement prediction algorithms

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Lift ban on heavy arrival leaders

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Delivering

NextGen

Delivering

NextGen

Collaborative Air Traffic

Management - CATM

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Collaborative Air Traffic

Management

Solution Set Description:

• Covers Strategic and tactical flow management,

including interactions with flight operators to mitigate

situations when the desired use of capacity cannot

be accommodated.

• Includes flow programs and collaboration on

procedures that shift demand to alternate resources

(e.g., routings, altitude, and times).

• Manages National Airspace System (NAS) flights.

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Development and management of aeronautical information

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Delivering

NextGen

Delivering

NextGen

Reduced Weather

Impacts - RWI

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RWI Solution Set

• Complements all other NextGen Solution Sets

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Collaborative Air Traffic Management

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Trajectory Based Operations

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Flexible Airport and Terminal

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High Density Airspace

• 19 Operational Improvements from National Airspace

System (NAS) Enterprise Architecture

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Alpha segment (2009-2015) underway

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Bravo segment (2016-2018) in definition

• Reflect evolving needs

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RWI Improvements

• Weather Forecast

Improvements

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NextGen Weather

Processor

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Weather Integration

• Weather Observation

Improvements

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Right Sizing the Sensor

Network

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Multi Phased Array

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Weather Forecast Improvements:

Weather Integration

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Weather Observation Improvements:

Multi Phased Array Radar

• Research and mature MPAR technology for future deployment across the NAS

• Provide more accurate spatial and temporal resolution of severe weather

to enable safer and more efficient use of the NAS • Ability to provide surveillance

backup with the same equipment

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Transformational Programs

Delivering

NextGen

Delivering

NextGen

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Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast

(ADS-B)

• A

utomatic

– Periodically transmits information with no pilot or operator input required

• D

ependent

– Position and velocity vector are derived from the Global Positioning System (GPS)

• S

urveillance -

– A method of determining position of aircraft, vehicles, or other asset

• B

roadcast

– Transmitted information available to anyone with the appropriate receiving equipment

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Data Communications

• En Route Automation (ERAM) enhancements

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Log on and Protocol Gateway functions needed for Tower Service

• Tower Data Link (TDLS) Enhancements

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Revised Departure Clearances message sets

• Ground-Ground Telecommunications Service

Aircraft Avionics Ground-Ground Telecom Network _Air-Ground Data Communications VDL-2 Network Controller Facility T O W ER TDLS Data Communications Applications ERAM A RTCC Data Communications Applications

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Data Communications

• Data Comm Integrated Service (DCIS)

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Air/Ground VHF Data Link Mode 2 (VDL-2) Network Service (DCNS)

• Shared Air Traffic Services (ATS) and Air Operations Center (AOC)

Network

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Engineering Integration Services

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Manage Avionics Initiative

• Future Air Navigation System (FANS) 1/A+ avionics

• Certified, available and in the National Airspace System (NAS)

Aircraft Avionics Ground-Ground Telecom Network _Air-Ground Data Communications Controller Facility TOW E R TDLS Data Communications Applications ERAM A R TC C Data Communications Applications

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System Wide Information

Management (SWIM)

Host WARP IDS/ ERIDS ATOP CIWS TFM TMA STARS/ ARTS/ TAMR ASDE ETMS Inter- Agency

Today

- Existing point-to-point hardwired NAS - Unique interfaces, custom

- More point-to-point unique interfaces - Costly development, test, maintenance, CM

- New decisions linked to old data constructs

- Cumbersome data access outside the NAS

Enterprise

Management

LEGEND FAA Systems SWIM Compliant Non-Government Systems SWIM Compliant Government Systems FTI ERAM

Business as Usual

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Voice Communications Capabilities Needed

for NextGen

VOICE VOICE VOICE

High Performance Airspace

Universal High Altitude Airspace (UHAA)

Mixed Performance Airspace Traditional Airspace UAS Pilots UAS Pilots Underlying Communications Network Network Management

More Flexible Communications Capabilities to support:

• Business Continuity Planning • Operational Security • Consolidation/Co-location • Load Sharing and Balancing across

facilities

• Virtual Towers • UAS Communications

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Implementation Programs

• Time Based Flow Management (TBFM)

• Aeronautical Information Management

• En Route Automation Modernization

• Future Facilities

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RNAV: General purpose satellite

navigation

RNP: High-precision satellite

navigation for congested airspace

• Provides aircraft with the ability to fly shorter,

more efficient flight paths

• De-conflicts closely spaced airports and

runways

• Reduces delays, fuel burn, and aircraft noise

Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Enables

Increased Efficiency and Access

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Integrating PBN into Airspace Design

• Optimization of Airspace and Procedures in the

Metroplex (OAPM) is an expedited approach for

Integrated Airspace and Procedures efforts

• This framework takes a systems approach to PBN

initiatives and the design of airspace providing a

geographic focus to problem solving

• Approach is based on collaborative teams

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Study Teams: Provide a comprehensive but expeditious

front-end strategic look at each major metroplex

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Design and Implementation Teams: Provide a systematic,

effective approach to the design, evaluation and implementation

of PBN-optimized airspace and procedures

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Time Based Flow Management

Traffic Management Advisor (TMA)

–TMA is a decision support tool designed to optimize the flow of aircraft into capacity-constrained areas

•Using Time Based Metering instead of miles-in-trail

•Used daily in support of arrival, en-route and departure flows

– Currently, deployed and operational at all 20 ARTCCs, 30 TRACONs, and 29 ATCTs (27 of the 35

OEP airports)

Time Based Flow Management (TBFM) –

- An enhancement of the TMA system - The TBFM portfolio will enhance efficiency by leveraging new capabilities on the TMA system

•Operational and NextGen Enhancements •System Re-Architecture

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NextGen aircraft will need improved noise and emissions

performance and fuels that reduce air quality and climate impacts.

Expanding Aviation Partnerships to

Reduce Environmental Impact

Energy

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Standardization?

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But, We have a Solution!

Global Interoperability?

Global Harmonization?

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• Target for NextGen - 2018 • Accomplishments

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