Theme: Information Takes Flight
May 5–7, 2008
Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center
Bethesda, Maryland
- Conference General Chair: Brent Phillips, FAA
- Technical Program Chair: Denise Ponchak, NASA
Proceedings CD-ROMs were mailed to all registered attendees. Conference proceedings for others are available at the ICNS Conference area of the IEEE Xplore website.
| Presentation | Speaker |
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| Monday, May 5, 2008 | |
| Keynote Speaker | |
| Information Takes Flight | Fred Pease, Executive Director, Department of Defense Policy Board on Federal Aviation |
| Plenary Session – The Future of Airspace Session Chair: Robert Pearce, Deputy Director, Joint Planning and Development Office |
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| NextGen – Where We Are | Robert Pearce, Deputy Director, Joint Planning and Development Office |
| SESAR – Update | Colin Meckiff, EUROCONTROL – Federal Aviation Administration Coordinator, EUROCONTROL |
| Future of Airspace | Guy St. Sauveur, Department of Defense Policy Board on Federal Aviation |
| NextGen Gap Analysis | Jay Merkle, Chief Architect, Joint Planning and Development Office |
| NextGen – The Case for Investment Across Stakeholders | Kris Burnham, Division Director of Portfolio Management, Joint Planning and Development Office |
| NextGen – The Next Steps | Robert Pearce, Deputy Director, Joint Planning and Development Office |
| Session A – Integrated CNS Systems and Architectures – Research, Technology, Demonstrations and Evaluations Session Chair: Gene Hayman, The Boeing Company |
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| Idealized Truth Data for System Modeling and Testing | Jeffrey Giovino, The MITRE Corporation |
| Lessons Learned: NEO Command Post Exercise | Paul Comitz, The Boeing Company; John Mazurkiewicz, Computer Sciences Corporation; Avinash Pinto and David Sweet, The Boeing Company |
| Integrated Airport – A NextGen Test Bed | Michael Burkle and Thomas Montgomery, Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions |
| NextGen CNS Test Bed Status and Plans – A National Asset is Open for Business | Dana Hall, Sensis Corporation |
| System Dynamics Application in Air Traffic Management | Mike Ulrey and Arek Shakarian, Boeing Advanced Air Traffic Management |
| ADS-B Service Delivery Point (SDP) Emulation and Simulation | Russ Gorman, Sunhillo Corporation (presented by Ron Fulton) |
| EMOCS Emergency Management & Operational Control System Study | Harold Brackett, Harris Corporation |
| Overview of Net-Enabled Operations (NEO) Spiral 1 Activities | Robert Avjian and John Zuna, Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions |
| Dinner Speaker | |
| Amtrak in the Intermodal Age | Donna McLean, Chairman of the Board of Amtrak and former CFO of DOT and FAA. “ |
| Monday, May 5, 2008 | |
| Session B – Surveillance Systems Session Chair: Mark Ballin, NASA Langley Research Center |
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| Prototype ADS-B System in the Midwest: Description and Lessons Learned | Timothy Hall and Allen Mackey, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center; Bobby Nichols and John Marksteiner, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Using Multi-Sensor Fusion Tracking to Integrate Varied Air Traffic Control Surveillance Systems | John Byrns and Mark Supko, Telephonics Electronic Systems Division |
| Advanced Ground Surveillance for Remote Tower | Dieter Eier, Frequentis U.S.A, Inc.; Hartmut Huber and Wolfgang Kampichler, Frequentis AG |
| Terminal Multifunction Phased Array Radar | Mark Weber, Steven Campbell, John Cho and Jeff Herd, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Virtual Radar – Emulating Long Range ARSRs with ADS-B | Dave Whitman, Sunhillo Corporation |
| Multilateration at Italian Airports | Massimiliano DeAngelis, Selex-Sistemi Integrati |
| Quality of I/P Radar Data to En Route ARTCC’s | Bob Lincoln, Sunhillo Corporation |
| ACES Surveillance Modeling – Design Implementation and Capabilities | Greg Kubat, Analex Corporation; Steve Bretmersky, Cleveland State University; Thanh Nguyen, Analex Corporation and Rafael Apaza, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Session C – SWIM and Net Centric Air Transportation Session Chair: James Dieudonne, The MITRE Corporation |
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| Identity Federation for SOAs | Kelly Traw, Sherry Yang and Paul Comitz, Boeing Air Traffic Management |
| The Use of Mobile Object Technology in a Net-Centric System | Michael McGrady, Topia Technology |
| SWIM Segment 2 Definition | Michael Hritz, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Network Enabled Operations Spiral One Improved Operational Efficiency Using Collaborative Tools | Mary Ellen Miller and Robert Stamm, Raytheon Company |
| Implementing Geospatially Enabled Aviation Web Services | Samet Ayhan, Paul Comitz and Ron LaMarche, The Boeing Company |
| SOA Best Practices for the FAA SWIM Industry Recommendations | Michael Yeganeh, Oracle Corporation |
| SWIM-SUIT: Laying the Technological Foundation for SWIM | Massimiliano De Angeli, Selex-Sistemi Integrati |
| Monday, May 5, 2008 | |
| Session D – Navigation Systems Session Chair: Brent Phillips, Federal Aviation Administration |
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| FAA Civil Aviation Satellite Navigation Update WAAS/LAAS | Leo Eldredge, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Tightly Coupled GPS/IRS Navigation for ADS-B | Mark Manfred and Tom Ryno, Honeywell International |
| ATC Interfacing GNSS: A European Perspective | Massimiliano DeAngelis, Selex-Sistemi Integrati |
| Navigation Services and the U.S. National Airspace System | Leo Eldredge, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Aircraft Navigation and Spacecraft Coordination via Wireless Local Positioning Systems | Seyed (Reza) Zekavat, Ossama Abdelkhalik, Michigan Tech University and Hui Tong, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell |
| Analysis of Observed Aircraft-to-Aircraft Separations | Stephen Szurgyi, Sanjiv Shresta, Dejan Neskovic, James DeArmon and Scott Williams, The MITRE Corporation |
| Improving Low Visibility Operations | Brennan Haltli, Coby Johnson, Craig Johnson, Sean McCourt, Julian Sanchez and Sean Stapleton, The MITRE Corporation |
| Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | |
| Plenary Session – User Challenges Session Chair: Michael Lewis, ATM Business Development, The Boeing Company |
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| FAA, R, E&D Program Research Challenges | Barry Scott, Director, Research and Technology Development Office, Operations Planning, FAA Air Traffic Operations |
| User Challenges – Tailored Arrivals Experience | Rob Mead, Advanced Air Traffic Management, The Boeing Company |
| Innovation in Aviation: Very Light Jets and NextGen | Bruce Holmes, DayJet Corporation |
| Some Safety Considerations in NextGen | Amy Pritchett, Director, NASA Aviation Safety Program |
| How to Increase Capacity in New York | Paul McGraw, Air Transport Association |
| DoD – A User’s Perspective | Guy St. Sauveur, Department of Defense Policy Board on Federal Aviation |
| Why NowGen, A Users’ Perspective (No Presentation Available) | Michael Harrison, Aviation Management Associates, Inc. |
| Session E – CNS Safety and Secure Systems Session Chair: Dana Hall, Sensis Corporation |
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| The Role of No Radio (NORDO) Events in Airspace Security | Paul Ostwald, The MITRE Corporation |
| An Airborne Communications Roadmap for the U.S. Federal Air Marshal Service: Overview and Status | James Griner, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Shared Situational Awareness to Meet Future Airspace Security Mission Needs | Catherine Bolczak and Chih-Chia Vanessa Fong, The MITRE Corporation |
| ADS-B Conformance Monitoring – An Introductory Approach for Early Benefits | Michael Harrison, Aviation Management Associates, Inc. |
| Enhancing the Distribution of Radar Surveillance Data | Steve Bliesner, Avaliant LLC; Paul Comitz, The Boeing Company; and David Sweet, YourEncore |
| Applying the Final Approach Runway Occupancy Signal (FAROS) Concept to the High-Density Airport Environment | Jaime Figueroa, Kelvin Kercado, Federal Aviation Administration and Noel Schmidt, Architecture Technology Corporation |
| GMPLS Network Security: Gap Analysis | Vikram Ramakrishnan, Chris Wargo and Ravi Kumar, Computer Networks & Software, Inc. |
| Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | |
| Session F – Communications Systems and Networks Session Chair: David Matolak, Ohio University |
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| Moving Airplane Operational and Maintenance Data | Timothy Mitchell, The Boeing Company |
| Functional Building Blocks for an Integrated Aeronautical IP-Network | Frank Schreckenbach, German Aerospace Center; K. Leconte, C. Baudoin, Thales Alenia Space; C. Kissling, C. Bauer and S. Ayaz, German Aerospace Center |
| Future Communication Study – Action Plan 17 Final Conclusions and Recommendations Report | Nikos Fistas, EUROCONTROL; Brent Philips, Federal Aviation Administration and James Budinger, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| B-AMC – Broadband Aeronautical Multi-Carrier Communications | Michael Schnell, S. Brandes, S. Gligorevic, German Aerospace Center; C.-H. Rokitansky, M. Ehammer, Th. Gräupl, University of Salzburg; C. Rihacek and M. Sajatovic, Frequentis AG |
| Future Communication Study Technology Investigation Conclusions and Recommendations | Tricia Gilbert, Jenny Jin, Jason Berger, Stephen Henriksen, ITT Corporation and James Budinger, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Self-Healing Adaptive Network Technologies for IVHM | Joseph Ishac, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Onboard IVHM Communications Requirements for Commercial Transport Aircraft | James Griner, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Session G – Performance-Based CNS/ATM Session Chair: Gary Church, Aviation Management Associates, Inc. |
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| Stream Management for Successful Merging and Spacing Using ADS-B | Leslie Crane and Ganghuai Wang, The MITRE Corporation |
| Dynamic FPAs: A New Method for Dynamic Airspace Configuration | Alexander Klein, Air Traffic Analysis; Mark Rodgers and Hong Kaing, CSSI, Inc. |
| Encounter Modeling for Sense and Avoid Development | Mykel Kochenderfer, Leo Espindle, Daniel Griffith and James Kuchar, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Impact of Ground Delay Program (GDP) Rationing Rules on Passenger and Airline Equity | Bengi Manley and Lance Sherry, George Mason University |
| A Concept for Pairing Departures from Parallel Runways for Wake Avoidance | Clark Lunsford, The MITRE Corporation |
| Tower Information Display System (TIDS): The System Architecture | Sharon Woods, Computer Sciences Corporation; Mike Francis, EG&G and Jonathan Lee, U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center |
| Tower Information Display System (TIDS): Human-in-the-Loop Simulation and Evaluation | Daniel Hannon, Jonathan Lee, Thomas Sheridan and Caroline Donohoe, U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center |
| Evaluation of Aircraft Separations Observed in Radar Data of Terminal Operations | Edward Walsh and Ralf Mayer, The MITRE Corporation |
| Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | |
| Session H – 4-D Trajectory Operations and Automation Session Co-Chairs: Suzanne Porter and Elly Smith, The MITRE Corporation |
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| A Mid-Term Terminal Concept of Operations: Evaluation and Evolution Analysis | Craig Johnson and Elida Smith, The MITRE Corporation |
| Local Data Exchange for Airport Surface Trajectory-Based Operations | Chris Brinton and Stephen Atkins, Mosaic ATM |
| A 4D Trajectory Negotiation Protocol for Arrival and Approach Sequencing | José Miguel Canino RodrÃguez, Luis Gómez Déniz, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Jesús GarcÃa Herrero, Universidad Carlos III; Juan Besada Portas and José Ramón Casar Corredera, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Automated Tool for Task Analysis of NextGen Automation – Accelerating Airline Deployment of Nextgen With Task Analysis Tools | Lance Sherry and Maricel Medina, George Mason University; Michael Feary, NASA Ames Research Center; John Otiker South West Airlines and Karl Fennel United Airlines |
| A Statistical Wake Vortex Safety Threshold and Effect of Reducing Separation Variance on Runway Landing Capacity | Babak Jeddi, John Shortle and George Donohue, George Mason University |
| Decision Support Tool for Predicting Aircraft Arrival Rates from Forecast Weather Data | David Smith and Lance Sherry, George Mason University |
| Improved Airspace Efficiency Using Integrated Airport Management Tools | Rich Challen and Frank Köhne, Barco, Inc. |
| Aircraft Working Group NextGen Avionics Evolution | Jeff Duven, Dave Nakamura, Frank Alexander and Steve Van Trees, JPDO Aircraft Working Group |
| Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | |
| Plenary Session – Getting Connected Session Chair: David Rhodes, Director, Advanced Air Traffic Management Solutions, Computer Sciences Corporation |
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| Combining CNS Capabilities: A Key Step Toward NextGen | David Hamrick, Director for Safety and Performance-Based Services, The MITRE Corporation |
| Balancing Air Traffic Modernization and Aircraft Capabilities to Optimize Operations | Ronald Stroup, Chief Systems Engineer for Airborne and Ground System Integration, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Iridium Satellite Aviation – We are everywhere you want to fly | John Campbell, Executive V.P. for Government Programs, Iridium LLC |
| Data Communications – Status Update | Sandra Anderson, Data Communications Program Manager, Federal Aviation Administration |
| SWIM – FAA Plans | Ahmad Usmani, SWIM Program Manager, Federal Aviation Administration |
| SWIM – Industry Potential | Diane DeSua, Director, Air Traffic Management Strategy, Lockheed Martin Corporation |
| Tying it Together – The Enterprise Architecture | James Williams, Director, Systems Engineering and Safety, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Session I – Aviation Weather Session Chair: Massimiliano DeAngelis, Selex-Sistemi Integrati |
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| Consolidated Storm Prediction for Aviation | Marilyn Wolfson and William Dupree, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Roy Rasmussen and Matthias Steiner,National Center for Atmospheric Research; Stanley Benjamin and Steven Weygandt, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory |
| Distributing Net-Enabled Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Weather Data | Mark Simons, The MITRE Corporation |
| Forecasting Convective Weather Impacts on Aviation System Capacity | James Evans, Richard DeLaura, Brian Martin and Michael Robinson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Airspace Capacity Estimation Using WITI | Alexander Klein, Air Traffic Analysis, Inc.; Lara Cook and Bryan Wood, Mosaic ATM and David Simenauer, AvMet Applications International |
| Sensitivity of the National Airspace System Performance to Weather Forecast Accuracy | George Hunter, Fred Wieland and Kris Ramamoorthy, Sensis Corporation |
| Weather Data Processing: Display of Aviation Weather | Carl Dunn, Lockheed Martin Corporation |
| Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | |
| Session J – Aviation Spectrum Session Chair: Frank Box, The MITRE Corporation |
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| Outcome of the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) | Michael Biggs, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Spectrum Demand for Air/Ground Air Traffic Management Communications | Robert Morgenstern, The MITRE Corporation |
| RF Propagation in Enclosed Metallic Structures | Carl Mueller, Qinetiq North America; Thomas Wallett and James Griner, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Potential RF Interference to Control Links of Small Unmanned Aircraft | Frank Box, Leo Globus, Yan-Shek Hoh, Richard Snow, The MITRE Corporation and Jim Chadwick, Spectrum Analysis and Frequency Engineering, Inc. |
| Aircraft Intra-Vehicular Channel Characterization in the 5 GHz Band | David Matolak and Arvind Chandrasekaran, Ohio University |
| Future Trends for IP Over FAA Telecommunication Infrastructure | Omar Atia, The MITRE Corporation |
| Session K – Airport Surface Communications Session Chair: Chris Daskalakis, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center |
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| Performance Evaluation of OFDMA and Multicarrier CDMA Systems on Airport Surface Area Channels | Jingtao Zhang and David Matolak, Ohio University |
| Next Gen Airport Surface Wireless Network: Research Plan & Test Bed Performance | Steve DeHart, Sensis Corporation and James Budinger, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Evaluation of Downlink IEEE802.16e Communication at Airports | Jan Erik Håkegård and Tor Andre Myrvoll, SINTEF ICT |
| Objective and Automatic Estimation of Excess Taxi-Times | Benjamin Levy and Jeffrey Legge, Sensis Corporation |
| Broadband Wireless Networks for Airport Surface Communications | Izabela Gheorghisor and Ka Ho Leung, The MITRE Corporation |
| Flight Deck Based Indications and Alerting To Increase Runway Safety | James Nickum and Peter Moertl, The MITRE Corporation |
| VDL2 on the Airport Surface – A Simulation Study | Steven Bretmersky, Cleveland State University and Rafael Apaza, Federal Aviation Administration |
| Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | |
| Session L – Avionics Integration and Aircraft Systems Session Chair: Thomas Mulkerin, Mulkerin Associates, Inc. |
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| Start with Standards | Michael Russo, Aeronautical Radio, Inc. |
| Standardization and Regulation for Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) Avionics | William Hershey, The MITRE Corporation |
| Robust Large-Scale Distributed Wireless Communication for Aircraft Integrated Vehicle Health Management | James Griner, NASA Glenn Research Center |
| Broadband Data Communications using Energy-Efficient White LEDs on Aircraft Power-lines | Mohsen Kavehrad, Z. Hajjarian and A. Enteshari, The Pennsylvania State University |