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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Open Session Speakers." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment of Staffing Needs of Systems Specialists in Aviation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18357.
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Appendix B

Open Session Speakers

MEETING 1

October 18-19, 2012

Washington, DC

10:00 a.m. Public Welcome & Study Introduction
Barbara Wanchisen, Director, Board on Human-Systems Integration
10:30 a.m. Sponsor Perspective
Charge and Expectations of the Study
2012 Airway Transportation Systems Specialists (ATSS) Briefing for the National Academy of Sciences0

Rich McCormick, Labor Analysis, ALA-1, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Vaughn Turner, Vice President of Technical Operations Service Unit, FAA
Gene Crabtree, Deputy Vice President of Technical Operations Service Unit, FAA
James Thomas, Program Manager, Technical Operations Workforce, FAA
Kevin Brathwaite, Consultant, Grant Thornton

MEETING 2

December 6-7, 2012

Washington, DC

8:30 a.m. FAA Briefing—Integrated Control Facilities
   
  Future Facilities Program Overview
Austin Aurandt, Acting Manager, Program Management Team, Air Traffic Control
  Facilities Directorate, AJW-2, FAA
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Open Session Speakers." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment of Staffing Needs of Systems Specialists in Aviation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18357.
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9:30 a.m. FAA Discussion
Gene Crabtree, Deputy Vice President of Technical Operations Service Unit, FAA
   
10:30 a.m. Break
   
10:45 a.m. Air Traffic Control Staffing—U.S. Air Force Manpower Directorate
Kent B. White, Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Air Force Personnel Center,
  Director of Manpower
Dennis Carter, Chief of Management Engineering, Manpower Directorate
   
Noon Lunch with Continued Discussion with Attendees
Nancy Tippins, Chair
   
1:00 p.m. Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) Presentation and Discussion
Mike Perrone, National President, PASS, American Federation of Labor-
 #160;Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
Rich Casey, National Vice President, PASS, AFL-CIO
   
3:00 p.m. Break
   
3:15 p.m. FAA NextGen Presentations
Next Generation Air Traffic Management System
Steve Bradford, Chief Scientist-Architecture & NextGen Development, FAA
   
  NextGen and Technical Operations
Barbara Fisher, Manager for the National Airspace System Implementation
  Harmonization Division, ANG-D3, FAA

MEETING 3

January 23-24, 2013

Washington, DC

10:15 a.m. FAA Question and Answer Session
Nancy Tippins, Chair

MEETING 4

February 27-28, 2013

Irvine, CA

Report Writing Meeting

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Within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Airway Transportation System Specialists ATSS) maintain and certify the equipment in the National Airspace System (NAS).In fiscal year 2012, Technical Operations had a budget of $1.7B. Thus, Technical Operations includes approximately 19 percent of the total FAA employees and less than 12 percent of the $15.9 billion total FAA budget. Technical Operations comprises ATSS workers at five different types of Air Traffic Control (ATC) facilities: (1) Air Route Traffic Control Centers, also known as En Route Centers, track aircraft once they travel beyond the terminal airspace and reach cruising altitude; they include Service Operations Centers that coordinate work and monitor equipment. (2) Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities control air traffic as aircraft ascend from and descend to airports, generally covering a radius of about 40 miles around the primary airport; a TRACON facility also includes a Service Operations Center. (3) Core Airports, also called Operational Evolution Partnership airports, are the nation's busiest airports. (4) The General National Airspace System (GNAS) includes the facilities located outside the larger airport locations, including rural airports and equipment not based at any airport. (5) Operations Control Centers are the facilities that coordinate maintenance work and monitor equipment for a Service Area in the United States.

At each facility, the ATSS execute both tasks that are scheduled and predictable and tasks that are stochastic and unpredictable in. These tasks are common across the five ATSS disciplines: (1) Communications, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers and pilots to be in contact throughout the flight; (2) Surveillance and Radar, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers to see the specific locations of all the aircraft in the airspace they are monitoring; (3) Automation, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers to track each aircraft's current and future position, speed, and altitude; (4) Navigation, maintaining the systems that allow pilots to take off, maintain their course, approach, and land their aircraft; and (5) Environmental, maintaining the power, lighting, and heating/air conditioning systems at the ATC facilities. Because the NAS needs to be available and reliable all the time, each of the different equipment systems includes redundancy so an outage can be fixed without disrupting the NAS.

Assessment of Staffing Needs of Systems Specialists in Aviation reviews the available information on: (A) the duties of employees in job series 2101 (Airways Transportation Systems Specialist) in the Technical Operations service unit; (B) the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union of the AFL-CIO; (C) the present-day staffing models employed by the FAA; (D) any materials already produced by the FAA including a recent gap analysis on staffing requirements; (E) current research on best staffing models for safety; and (F) non-US staffing standards for employees in similar roles.

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