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Airborne Receiver Operations, 

prepared by SC–159. 

• Other Business. 

• Document Production and PMC 

Meeting Schedule. 

• Adjourn. 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2011. 

Robert L. Bostiga, 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11575 Filed 5–11–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Eighty-Fifth Meeting: RTCA Special 

Committee 159: Global Positioning 

System (GPS) 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 159 meeting: Global 

Positioning System (GPS). 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 159: Global 

Positioning System (GPS). 

DATES: The meeting will be held May 

26, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

RTCA, Inc., NBAA—McIntosh and 

ATA—Hilton Conference Rooms, 1828 L 

Street, NW., Suite 805, Washington, DC 

20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

RTCA Secretariat, 1828 L Street, NW., 

Suite 805, Washington, DC 20036; 

telephone (202) 833–9339; fax (202) 

833–9434; Web site http://www.rtca.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., App 2), notice is hereby 

given for a Special Committee 159: 

Global Positioning System (GPS) 

meeting. The agenda will include: 

Plenary Session 

May 26, 2011 

• Chairman’s Introductory Remarks. 

• Approval of Summary of the EightyFourth Meeting held February 11, 2011, 

RTCA Paper No. 082–11/SC159–991. 

• Review/Approval of Proposed Final 

Report—Assessement of the 

LightSquared Ancillary Terrestrial 

Component Radio Frequency 

Interference Impact on GNSS L1 Band 

Airborne Receiver Operations. 

• Other Business. 

• Date and Place of Next Meeting. 

• Adjourn. 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2011. 

Robert L. Bostiga, 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11577 Filed 5–11–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Eighth Meeting—RTCA Special 

Committee 217: Joint With EUROCAE 

WG–44 Terrain and Airport Mapping 

Databases 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 217: Joint with EUROCAE 

WG–44 Terrain and Airport Mapping 

Databases. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 217: Joint 

with EUROCAE WG–44 Terrain and 

Airport Mapping Databases. 

DATES: The meeting will be held June 6– 

10, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett 

Field, Mountain View, CA 94043. For 

more information contact John Kasten at 

john.kasten@jeppesen.com, (303) 328– 

4535 (office), (303) 260–9652 (mobile) or 

alternate contact Tom Evans at 

e.t.evans@nasa.gov, (757) 864–2499 

(office). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

RTCA Secretariat, 1828 L Street, NW., 

Suite 805, Washington, DC 20036–5133; 

telephone (202) 833–9339; fax (202) 

833–9434; Web site http://www.rtca.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is 

hereby given for a RTCA Special 

Committee 217: Joint with EUROCAE 

WG–44 Terrain and Airport Mapping 

Databases meeting. The agenda will 

include: 

June 6, 2011 

• Opening Plenary Session 

• Chairman’s remarks and Introductions 

• Housekeeping 

• Approve minutes from previous 

meeting 

• TOR update 

• Review and Approve Meeting Agenda 

• Schedule for this week 

• FRAC 

• Comment Resolution of Documents: 

Revised DO–272B and DO–291A 

June 7–8, 2011 

• Continue FRAC 

• Comment Resolution of Documents: 

Revised DO–272B and DO–291A 

June 9, 2011 

• Consider for Approval Revised DO– 

272B and Revised DO–291A 

• Consider/Approve FRAC Drafts for 

PMC Consideration—Revised DO– 

272B, User Requirements for 

Aerodrome Mapping Information and 

Revised DO–291A, Interchange 

Standards for Terrain, Obstacle, and 

Aerodrome Mapping Data. Revised 

RTCA DO272B is maintained as 

RTCA Paper No. 077–11/SC217–023, 

Revised RTCA DO/291A is 

maintained as RTCA Paper No. 078– 

11/SC217–024. 

• Working Group Sessions—Work Items 

for DO–276 

• Work Items for DO–XXX, ASRN V&V 

Document 

• Editorial Working Group Session to 

clean documents as a result of FRAC 

of Revised DO–272B and Revised DO– 

291A 

June 10, 2011 

• Road Map for DO–272 and DO–291 

• Assignment and Review of Future 

Work 

• Other Business 

• Date and Place of Next Meeting 

• Adjourn 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 


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Issued in Washington, DC, on May 6, 2011. 

Robert L. Bostiga, 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2011–11578 Filed 5–11–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Research and Innovative Technology 

Administration 

Wireless Innovation for 

Transportation; Request for 

Information 

AGENCY: Research and Innovative 

Technology Administration (RITA), 

U.S. Department of Transportation 

(USDOT). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice is a Request for 

Information (RFI) and comments that 

will be used to help identify research 

and development (R&D) opportunities 

for wireless technology in surface 

transportation. The President’s Wireless 

Infrastructure and Innovation Initiative 

includes a proposed $100M R&D 

investment to spur innovative wireless 

applications in surface transportation 

that advance the Administration’s 

safety, mobility, and environmental 

sustainability agenda. Feedback and 

comments on any aspect of the RFI are 

welcomed from all interested public, 

private, and academic entities, and 

individuals. While all feedback is 

welcomed, the USDOT is particularly 

interested in feedback on the questions 

provided in the last section of this RFI. 

RFI Guidelines: Responses to this RFI 

must be submitted by June 13, 2011. 

Responses to this RFI should be 

delivered electronically as an e-mail or 

as an attachment to an e-mail sent to 

winits@dot.gov. 

Responses to this notice are not offers 

and cannot be accepted by the 

Government to form a binding contract, 

to issue a grant or cooperative 

agreement, or to make any other funding 

or partnership commitment. Information 

obtained as a result of this RFI may be 

used by the government for program 

planning. If you wish to submit any 

information under a claim of 

confidentiality, you should submit via 

email to the address given below under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, your 

complete submission, including the 

information you claim to be confidential 

commercial information. When you 

submit information containing 

information identified as confidential 

commercial information, you should 

include a cover letter setting forth the 

reasons you believe the information 

qualifies as ‘‘confidential commercial 

information.’’ (49 CFR 7.13(c)(4) and 

7.17) If we receive a request to examine 

or copy this information, we will treat 

it as any other request under the 

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 

552), but we will process the request in 

accordance with the procedures found 

in 49 CFR 7.17. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about the program discussed 

herein, please contact Mr. John 

Augustine, Intelligent Transportation 

Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), 

202–366–9536, john.augustine@dot.gov. 

For legal questions or issues, please 

contact Robert Monniere, RITA, 202– 

366–5498, Robert.Monniere@dot.gov, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Office hours for 

RITA are generally from 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Additional information about the 

USDOT’s planned work under the 

Wireless Innovation and Infrastructure 

Initiative is at http://www.dot.gov/

budget/2012/budgetestimates/rita.pdf 

and http://www.rita.dot.gov/

publications/budget_estimates/fy2012/ 

html/detailed_justification_for_its_

wireless.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

February, 2011, President Obama 

announced the Wireless Innovation and 

Infrastructure Initiative. (http://

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/

microsites/ostp/Wi3-fs.pdf). 

As part of this initiative, a total of $3 

billion raised from voluntary spectrum 

incentive auctions would be used to 

create a Wireless Innovation (WIN) 

Fund. This fund would aim to catalyze 

innovation by funding research and 

development of emerging broadband 

wireless technologies and applications. 

The WIN fund is intended to advance 

economic growth and competitiveness 

by supporting the nationwide rollout of 

the next generation broadband cellular 

(e.g. 4G) technologies, supporting 

development of new applications that 

leverage that rollout, and paving the 

way for other new technologies that 

result in accelerated benefits to the 

American people. Overall, the fund will 

support basic research, experimentation 

and testbeds, as well as applied 

development areas such as public 

safety, education, energy, health, 

economic development, and 

transportation. The transportation 

portion of the WIN Fund, which will 

focus on initiatives above and beyond 

the existing core Intelligent 

Transportation Systems (ITS) programs 

at USDOT, will provide an additional 

$100 million in funding over a five year 

period to create an ITS Wireless 

Innovation for Transportation program. 

This RFI seeks to obtain public input 

regarding the optimal use of the WIN 

funding to expedite the investment, 

development, deployment and use of 

broadband wireless applications to 

address our nation’s transportation 

needs. 

Broadband wireless systems consist of 

several different classes of technology. 

The most commonly thought of is a 

wide area, potentially ubiquitous 

coverage systems such as cellular, 

including for example, 4th generation 

cellular or ‘‘4G.’’ However, fixed or 

mobile local-area coverage such as WiFi, as well as fixed point-to-point, and 

point-to-multipoint wireless systems 

may all be used either individually or 

together to achieve the goal of providing 

broadband access to all Americans and 

a platform for innovation. Several 

complementary technologies may be 

used for each class of system. This RFI 

focuses on mobile wireless broadband 

technologies and applications for 

surface transportation, including both 

wide area and local area systems. 

Wireless Innovation for 

Transportation—Program Description 

The Wireless Innovation for 

Transportation Program (WIN for 

Transportation) will provide the 

USDOT’s ITS Program and its 

stakeholders the ability to seek new and 

innovative opportunities to pursue 

ground-breaking research and 

development toward deployment of 

wireless technology applications. It will 

develop and demonstrate innovative 

wireless transportation applications that 

deliver safety, mobility, emergency 

response, energy, and/or environmental 

benefits to both passenger, fleet and 

freight transportation systems. The WIN 

for Transportation program 

compliments and builds upon the 

USDOT’s ongoing ITS research program 

(http://www.its.dot.gov), but will be 

funded separately from the existing ITS 

Program. It is proposed that the WIN for 

Transportation program will: 

• Use ‘‘living laboratories’’ in a 

competitively-selected region or 

corridor where innovative broadband 

wireless communications methods and 

applications can be safely evaluated in 

an operating environment. These living 

laboratories will leverage other public 

and private investments. 

• Create broadband wireless ‘‘fast 

lanes’’ for multi-modal transportation 

applications such as real-time safety 

inspections, reporting, and access 

nationwide, including in underserved 

rural areas and at border crossings. 


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