Federal Aviation 

Administration 

AVS Research, Engineering 

and Development 

Presented to: 

Date: 

REDAC SAS 

2/23/21 

Research, Engineering, and 

Development Advisory Committee 

REDAC: Sub-committee on Aircraft 

Safety (SAS) Meeting 
 

Purpose 

• Provide updates on the FY23 Aviation 

Safety Research Portfolio 

– REDMT 

– BLI Teams/Plans 

– Current Status 

– Next Steps 

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REDMT Charter 

• History of the REDMT 

– Formed in 2018 (FY21 Portfolio) 

– Assumed Process Redesign in 2019 (FY22 Portfolio) 

– Redesigned a new standardized process in 2020 

(FY23 Portfolio) 

• REDMT Charter signed October 2020 

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Roles and Responsibilities 

• The AVS REDMT is a decision-making body with the 

authority to make decisions based on service/office input 

and support. 

• The team is comprised of at least one or two managers 

from each of the following organizations: 

– Office of Aerospace Medicine (AAM) 

– Flight Standards Service (AFS) 

– Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) 

– Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service (AOV) 

– Office of Accident Investigation and Prevention (AVP) 

– UAS Integration Office (AUS) 

• In addition, the team is chaired and managed by the Office of Accident 

Investigation and Prevention; where the program management 

responsibilities lie: 

– AVP Director for Safety Management and Research Planning, AVP-300 will Chair the AVS 

REDMT 

– AVS R&D Program Manager, AVP-300 will facilitate and manage all meetings 

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FY23 Research BLIs 

BLI Program Area 

Research Sponsoring 

Service/Office 

Research Managing 

Service/Office 

A11A Fire Research and Safety AIR ANG-E2 

A11B Propulsion and Fuel Systems* AIR ANG-E2 

A11C Advanced Materials/Structural Safety AIR, AFS ANG-E2 

A11D Aircraft Icing/Digital System Safety AIR, AFS ANG-E2 

A11E Continued Air Worthiness AIR ANG-E2 

A11G Flightdeck/Maintenance/System Integration Human 

Factors 

AIR, AFS, AAM ANG-C1 

A11H System Safety Management/Terminal Area Safety AIR, AFS, AOV, AVP ANG-E2 

A11J Aeromedical Research AIR, AAM AAM 

A11L Unmanned Aircraft System Research AIR, AFS, AAM, AOV, 

AVP, AUS 

ANG-E2, ANG-C1, 

ANG-C2 

A11M Alt Fuels for GA AIR ANG-E2 

* Note: For FY23, the Aircraft Catastrophic Failure Prevention (A11F) BLI is being 

rolled into the Propulsion and Fuel Systems (A11B) BLI. 

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BLI Team Plans and Construct 

Created 5-year Plans for each BLI (modelled after 

the UAS Research Plan) 

• Scope 

• Operational Capabilities 

• Research Objectives 

• Funding target profile 

• Research projects/Rankings 

– Ranked using pairwise comparison methodology 

• Policy Direction, OC Alignment, OC Impact, Previous Commitment, 

Best Value 

– Budget programmed within each BLI to AFN provided target 

contract funding levels 

– 10% Hold-back allocation for FAA level Research Portfolio view 

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5-Year BLI Plans 

Intent of Plans 

• Top-down approach 

• 5-Year planning (with regular updates as conditions warrant) 

• Annual (1 year) budgeting is just a slice od the full 5-Year Plan, as 

opposed to developing an annual “single year” plan (culture shift) 

Current State 

• First attempt with this approach and it is mostly bottom-up because of 

the short timeframes 

• BLI Teams worked independently on the Plans and they have not 

been fully integrated into the AVS and FAA Level 

Next Steps 

• Seek ASV Executives and others input to make the BLI Plans more 

top-down 

• Integrate AVS BLI Plans into an FAA Level Plan 

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Upcoming Key Dates 

02/23/2021 REDAC SAS Meeting 

• Present Draft AVS Portfolio to the REDAC SAS 

• Provide Draft AVS Portfolio to ANG-E4 

04/08/2021 AVS-1 Approval of FY23 AVS Research Portfolio 

• FINAL FY23 Research Portfolio with completed Budget Proposals 

• Complete Budget Narratives 

• Begin integration into the FAA Portfolio 

06/01/2021 Submit FAA Portfolio to OST 

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