Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee 

PPT Briefing to Sub-committee on Airports: March 2-3, 2021 

VIRTUAL MEETING (ZOOM Information Provided below) 

Day 1: March 2, 2021 

8:30 pm Christopher Oswald 

ACI-NA, Subcommittee Chairperson 

8:45 am Shelley Yak 

Director, FAA Technical Center 

9:00 am John Dermody 

Director, FAA Office of Airports Safety and Standards 

9:15 am Dr. Michel Hovan 

Manager, FAA Airport Technology Research 

9:30 am Subcommittee Members and FAA 

10:00 am Break 

10:15 am NASA Presentations 

Nancy Mendonca 

Akbar Sultan 

Dr. Jimmy Kenyon 

11:15 am Marci Greenberger 

Manager, ACRP Program 

11:45 am Lunch Break 

12:15 pm All 

12:45pm All 

1:15 pm Break 

1:30 pm FAA RPA Managers 

Murphy Flynn 

Acting Manager, Airport Safety Research Section 

Keith Bagot 

Mike DiPilato 

Jonathan Torres 

Ryan King 

Somil Shah 

4:15 Break 

4:30 pm Lauren Vitagliano 

5:30 pm Adjourn 

Introduction 

Opening Remarks 

HQ ARP Update 

Airport Technology Program Update 

Budgets, New Contracting Avenues 

Review of Outstanding REDAC Recommendations 

Urban Air Mobility 

Surface Management 

Commercial Hypersonic 

Airport Cooperative Research Program - Update 

Possible Changes to Industry as a Result of COVID-19 

Aviation Industry Direction and Challenges 

Focused RPA Discussions—Airport Safety and Planning 

Overview of Safety Projects under way 

Alternative aircraft fire-fighting agent research 

Unmanned aircraft system 

Vertiport Design Standards for eVTOL/UAM vehicles 

Evaluation of Solar Lighting Systems for Airports 

Aircraft braking friction research, update 

Focused RPA Discussions—Airport Environmental &Noise 

• Airport Environmental Projects 

• Noise Annoyance Survey results 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2: March 3, 2021 

8:30 am Jeff Gagnon 

Manager, Airport Research Pavement Section 

Overview of all pavement research projects under way 

Focused RPA Discussions—Airport Pavements 

Dr. David Brill FAARFIELD, Update 

40-year pavement design life 

Dr. Navneet Garg Discussion on HMA Fatigue Model in FAARFIELD 

10:00 am Break 

10:15 am Subcommittee Members Subcommittee Findings & Recommendations 

11:30apm Adjourn 

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