Presented to: Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee

By: Stan Pszczolkowski, Manager, System Analysis Division

Date: February 28, 2007

Federal AviationAdministrationFederal Aviation

Administration

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Current Events

• FAA Met 27 of 30 FY06 Goals. Organizational Success = 90%

• Safety Goal – 3 year Rolling Average“Commercial Air Carrier Fatal Accident Rate/100,000 Departures”

FY-06 Goal - .018 FY-06 Actual - .020 FY-07 Goal - .010

• Expedited Approval for UAS Disaster Relief Operations– Hours vs. 60 Days– Used in November for Reconnaissance of Esperanza Wildfire

• Russ Chew, FAA Air Traffic Organization’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), resigned effective February 23. Robert “Bobby” Sturgell,

FAA Deputy Administrator, assumed COO Duties

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Next Generation Air Transportation SystemFinancing Reform Act of 2007*

(aka FAA Reauthorization)

• Proposed Legislation Released February 2007

• Benefits– Reduces congestion and alleviates passenger delays– Reduces travel time– Provides tax relief– Reduces emissions and noise– Improves water quality

• “...would replace the decades old system of collecting ticket taxes with a cost-based, stable and reliable funding program that relies on a combination of user-fees, taxes and a federal government contribution to support the development of a new, satellite-based, air traffic control system, called NextGen.”

*www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/reauthorization

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Some Details of Proposed Legislation

• Eliminates Domestic Passenger Tax

• 50% Reduction in International Arrival/Departure Tax

• Generates Revenues Based on Costs Users Impose on System

• Limited New Borrowing Authority – Runways, Terminals, ATC Facilities and Equipment

• Establishment of Advisory Board of Aviation Community Members “... stronger say in how federal funds are invested in aviation while

maintaining strong congressional and public oversight...” User pays means user says

• Changes in Passenger Facility Charge Program

• Restructuring of Airport Improvement Program

• Engine & Airframe Research to Reduce Emissions & Noise

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Proposed Funding Sources• User Fees – 53%

– Jet and turboprop flights currently subject to ticket tax– Limited, cost-based congestion fee at 30 most congested airports– Modest fees to recover costs of some certification services

• Fuel and International Passenger Taxes – 28%– General Aviation (GA) and Piston Users – Fuel tax based on detailed

cost allocation (2 year updates)– Airport Improvement and Essential Air Service Programs, FAA R&D

Funding 13.6 cents/gallon fuel tax for domestic commercial and GA users $6.39 international passenger head tax

• General Fund Contribution (Public Good Functions) – 19%– Safety regulation– Military user of air traffic services– Flight service stations

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Transformational NextGen Programs(Funding requests in millions $)

FY08 5 year

• Automated Dependant Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) $85.0 $564.0

• NextGen Data Communications $7.4 $126.0

• NextGen Network Enabled Weather $7.0 $102.0

• National Airspace System Voice Switch $3.0 $157.0

• NextGen Demonstrations/Infrastructure Development $50.0 $170.0

• System Wide Information Management $21.3 $173.0

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Mission Need for SWIM NAS to Next Generation Air Traffic System Evolution Challenge:• NAS is a hardwired collection of systems designed for

specific types of decisions and decision makers– Dedicated point-to-point interfaces defined by custom interface

control documents– Each interface designed, developed and maintained separately

• Next Generation Air Transportation System must allow:– Easy access to information by more system users and service

providers– More efficient data management– System transparency to link decisions from strategic planning to

tactical action

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Why SWIM?• NAS data remains relatively unavailable to the FAA Enterprise - Access is limited by the

controlling application, shielded behind proprietary software, and funneled through a few complex and rigidly guarded portals.

• SWIM will – migrate NAS applications toward a loosely coupled, open-distributed processing environment thereby exposing

data to both new and legacy applications – support interoperability among NAS Systems– reduce the number of unique NAS interfaces

IDS

STARS

ATOP

WARP

ARTS

TMA

DBRITE

ERAM

ITWS

MEARTS

Inter-Agency

SWIM

STARS

ATOP

WARP

ARTS

TMA

DBRITE

ERAM

ITWS

MEARTS

Inter-Agency

ETMSETMS

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SWIM Operational Concept

Flight Service Station Systems

TowerSystems

TerminalSystems

En Route Systems

Oceanic Systems

TFMSystems

Military,International Aviation,

Law Enforcement,and

Other agencies

Airline Traffic Flow Mgr

Airline Dispatcher

Flight ServiceSpecialists

EnRoute and OceanicControllers

Tower and TerminalControllers

Fire-Wall

InformationExchange

NAS Air Traffic Services with System-to-System Coordination

Traffic Flow

Specialists

Airline OperationsCenter Systems

Quality

Reliability

Quality

Reliability

Quality

Reliability

Quality

Reliability

Quality

Reliability

Quality

Reliability

Quality

Reliability

Quality

Reliability

Security

StandardData

StandardData

CommonGeographical

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SWIM “Is’s” and “Is Not’s”

Swim is:• NAS Information Standards &

Policies

• NAS-wide information distribution and access mechanism for current and new applications

• Built on top of existing telecommunications infrastructure

• 50% commercial and 50% custom software

• Non-proprietary, scalable, flexible solution to cost effectively meet current and future information requirements

Swim is not:• A giant database

• A substitute for NAS modernization programs

• A new application

• A big system requiring new facilities or large space requirements

• An telecommunications replacement