# Presentation: 409447

## Aviation Operations Systems

**Enabling a new era in air transportation**

## Aviation Operations Systems

**Develop and demonstrate pioneering concepts and technologies to:**
**Increase safety**
**Increase efficiency**
**Increase environmental protection**

_**Mission**_** - Work with the Federal Aviation Administration and aircraft operators to meet the nation’s expanding air transportation demands**

**Notes:**
The mission of the Aviation Operations Systems program is to work with the Federal Aviation Administration and aircraft operators to meet the nation’s expanding air transportation demands.  
The program will develop and demonstrate pioneering concepts and technologies to increase safety, increase efficiency and increase environmental protection.   
Specific results include:
Reducing the aircraft accident rate by a factor of five within ten years and a factor of 10 within 25 years.
Double the aviation system throughput in all weather conditions within 10 years and triple the throughput in 25 years.
Reduce the cost of air travel by 25% within 10 years and by 50% within 20 years.
Reduced perceived noise levels by a factor of two within 10 years and a factor of four within 20 years.
Reduce emissions of future aircraft by a factor of three within 10 years and a factor of five within 20 years.

## Aviation Operations Systems

**Weather**
**Cockpit and crew**
**Sensing and communications**
**Air traffic control**
**Airport operations**
**Flight planning**
**Training**
**Aircraft systems**

_**Definition**_** - Those aircraft, ground and satellite systems, personnel and operation methods that enable safe aircraft operations in the national airspace**

**Notes:**
Aviation Operations Systems are defined as those aircraft, ground and satellite systems, personnel and operational methods that enable safe aircraft operations in the national airspace.  They specifically encompass sensing and communications, weather, cockpit and crew, air traffic control, airport operations, flight planning, training and aircraft systems.

Investigations of the program run the gamut from the development of fundamental theories, through laboratory simulation, to flight experimentation.

## Projects

_**Human Automation Integration Research**_
**Develop and demonstrate the tools and testbeds to account for human performance and reliability in aerospace operations**
**Improve communication among system designers and human factors experts**
**Eliminate or mitigate risk factors**
**Improve operator understanding of automated systems**

*Aviation Operations Systems*

**Notes:**
The Human Automation Integration and Research project will develop and demonstrate the tools and testbeds to account for human performance and reliability in aerospace operations systems designs.

The goals of the project are:
1. To improve the communication and collaboration among 	systems designers and human factors experts

2. To eliminate or mitigate risk factors due to human error

3. To improve operator understanding of automated 	systems

## Projects

_**Human Error and Countermeasures**_
**Improve decision-making and procedures to reduce the potential of human error**
**Enable human operators to respond quickly to flight-critical situations**

*Aviation Operations Systems*

**Training**
**Fatigue**

**Notes:**
Human Error and Countermeasures works to improve decision-making and procedures to reduce the potential of human error and enable human operators to respond quickly to flight-critical situations.

The Training element addresses technologies to reduce crew errors in procedures, decision-making, situation awareness, automation use and weather planning so pilots, flight teams, and ground control teams can function quickly and efficiently in routine and abnormal operations.

The Fatigue element addresses the role of physiological variations in alertness and will develop work rules to manage disturbances in operators circadian rhythms while they are working.

## Projects

_**Psychological/Physiological Stressors and Factors**_
**New knowledge about human perception and performance to allow for safe, efficient management of aerospace vehicles **

*Aviation Operations Systems*

**Perceptual Models and Metrics**
**Cognitive Models and Metrics**
**Physiological Factors**

**Notes:**
The Psychological/Physiological Stressors and Factors project seeks new knowledge about human perception and performance to allow for safe, efficient management of aerospace vehicles operating in the increasing dense air transportation system.

Perceptual Models and Metrics seeks new methods and computational models to optimize operator sensory-motor interaction with the displays and controls of the national air space system.

The Cognitive Models and Metrics project researches the factors of  interruption and diversion of attention.  Methods include use of empirical investigation, modeling and direct measurement of brain activity.

Physiological Factors provides knowledge about the role of physiologically-based variations in alertness, fatigue and other mental states.

## Projects

_**Aircraft Icing**_
**Eliminate aircraft icing as a safety hazard to aircraft**
**Prediction**
**Detection**
**Removal**
**Avoidance**

*Aviation Operations Systems*

**Notes:**
The goal of the Aircraft Icing project is to eliminate icing as a safety hazard to aircraft, including improved icing prediction, detection, removal and avoidance.

To do this, the project is developing methods to understand the effects of ice contamination on aircraft performance, researching ice protection technologies and creating tools for icing certification and qualification of aircraft systems.