Transformation in the Air A Review of the FAA's Certification Research Plan (2015) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: FAA Research Plan
Appendix A: FAA Research Plan
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30 TRANSFORMATION IN THE AIR -- A REVIEW OF THE FAA'S CERTIFICATION RESEARCH PLAN Research Plan Methods and Procedures to Improve Confidence in and Timeliness of Certification of New Technologies Into the National Airspace System FINAL February 2014
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APPENDIX A 31 Change History Version Date Change 1-00 5/24/2012 Baseline Version 2-00 8/20/2012 Final Draft 3-00 10/3/2012 Update to Final Draft 4-00 11/28/2012 Final 5-00 1/3/2013 Final-Cleared 6-00 4/9/2013 Final-Adjudicated 7-00 1/27/2014 Final-Revised Prepared by: Office of NextGen William J Hughes Technical Center Aviation Research Division Methods and Procedures to Improve Confidence and Timeliness of Certification of New Technologies Into the National Airspace System
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to "conduct research on methods and procedures to improve both confidence in and the timeliness of certification of new technologies for their introduction into the national airspace system." The Act also instructs the FAA to develop a research plan that contains objectives, proposed tasks, milestones, and a 5-year budgetary profile, and to arrange an independent review of this plan by the National Research Council. The scope of this research plan is defined in part by 49 United States Code, Section 44505, entitled "Systems, procedures, facilities, and devices." In preparing this report, we have considered certification processes for the two basic categories of technologies that are central to the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)
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, partially because it needs to go through an independent review and adjudication process with the National Research Council, as described below. Methods and Procedures to Improve Confidence and Timeliness of Certification of New Technologies Into the National Airspace System vi
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to "conduct research on methods and procedures to improve both confidence in and the timeliness of certification of new technologies for their introduction into the national airspace system." The Act also instructs the FAA to develop a research plan that contains objectives, proposed tasks, milestones, and a 5-year budgetary profile, and to arrange an independent review of this plan with the National Research Council. The scope of the research plan is dictated in part by the language in Section 905 that amends 49 United States Code (USC)
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New technology integration almost always includes a complex software development effort along with detailed internal and external interfaces that allow the technology to interoperate with other NAS components and external NAS stakeholders, 2. New technologies intended to benefit the users typically entail enhancements to the human interfaces (e.g., air traffic controllers and facility management personnel)
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Aircraft equipage is covered under Section 215 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. Likewise, aircraft certification procedures are addressed under Section 312 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012.
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research focus areas: • Software assurance, • Software certification, • Requirements management and traceability, • Human technologies and computer human interaction, • Verification and Validation, Testing, and Operational Evaluation, • Controller Training Systems, Methods and Procedures to Improve Confidence and Timeliness of Certification of New Technologies Into the National Airspace System 4
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• Output -- Apply prototype modifications to several ongoing approval process efforts (pilot studies) • Output -- Measure time and collect data on the new approval process • Output -- Produce ongoing measures and trends of the approval process • Output -- Integrate measures and trends into ATO oversight and decision-making process • Output – Report the research results Outcome -- Confidence • Output -- Develop analysis capabilities that support air traffic personnel in evaluating information related to the design approval process • Output -- Develop information-sharing technologies that support the FAA and industry involvement earlier in the design approval process 4.
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2. Conduct interviews with current FAA and industry personnel who frequently perform the design approval process (e.g., software assurance, software certification, human factor assessment, training development, and information security)
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Have the National Research Council perform a Research Plan Update Dec 2013 $500K formal review of the Research Plan and coordinate required tasking and outputs of research activities. Conduct interviews of current FAA and industry Research Report -- Design Approval Mar 2014 $200K personnel who frequently perform the approval Process, Tools and Facility process (e.g., software assurance, software Requirements certification, human factor assessment, training development, and information security)
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and a half programmatic FTE for the duration. It is also estimated that research contractor support will be required in the amount of $4.6M over the 5-year research effort as detailed by the research tasks identified in Section 6.
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FAA JO 1000.37, "Air Traffic Organization Safety Management System," March 19, 2007.
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