Presented to: REDACBy: Qingge Jia/David BrillDate: August 2017

RPA P7: SOFTWARE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT & SUPPORT

*

My name, project manager of RPA 7

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

*

RPA P7 Overview

Accomplishments

Research Goals

Funding Requirements 

Goals
        - To upgrade FAA programs to current technologies
        - To meet FAA standards, and IT standards
        - To develop tools better serve FAA research needs.

Deliverables
        - Software, websites, source code, and documentation.
        - FAA PAVEAIR 2.6.2 released in January, 2017.
        - Finalized software integration plan.
        - FAA PAVEAIR improvements.
        - Branch Website improvements and database accessibility improvements.

Need

Software development and support provides continuous support to FAA Advisory Circulars (AC), to provide support to develop airport pavement standard in pavement design, evaluation, pavement management, and other research areas.
| Project              | Contract Fund ($K) |
|----------------------|--------------------|
| FY17                 | FY18               | FY19 |
| FAA PAVEAIR          | 350                | 435 | 455 |
| Software Integration | 450                | 445 | 455 |
| Branch Website       | 100                | 177 | 180 |
| Total                | 900                | 1,057 | 1,090 |

*

This is a new project. The reason to have this project is that over so many years, our branch developed many software programs, and collect a large amount of data. The programs, quite a few are adopted by FAA advisory circulars, and FAA PAVEAIR is used by several states as their PMS. It is crucial to keep these programs up to date, continuously support FAA advisory circular and users.

I will get to a little detail on Goals.

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

Plan and Schedule
| RPA P7 - SOFTWARE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT & SUPPORT [$ K]          | FY17   | FY18   | FY19 |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|--------|------|
| $900                                                               | $1,057 | $1,090 |
| P7.1 - FAA PAVEAIR                                                 |
| Improvements, Bug Fixes                                            |        |
| Functionality Improvement (PCI, Prediction Modeling, ASTM updates) |        |
| French and Spanish version                                         |        |
||
| P7.2 - Software Integration                                        |
| Upgrade Software Programs                                          |        |
| Software Integration                                               |        |        |
| Software Test, Bug Fixes                                           |        |        |
||
| P7.3 - Airport R&D Website                                     |
| Website Development and Maintenance                                |        |
| FAA Policy, Security Compliance                                    |        |        |

This RPA has 3 projects, I will briefly give some updates on each project

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

P7.1 FAA PAVEAIR
        - Status
        - Planned Updates

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

FAA PAVEAIR Status
        - Databases: 921
        - Utah, 43 airports
        - Wyoming, 34 airports
        - South Carolina
        - Registered Users: 2096
        - Foreign Requests
        - China
        - South Africa
        - Mongolia, ...
        - Workshops and Users Group Meetings
        - Italy, 2017
        - South Carolina, 2016
        - Miami, 2015
        - Providence, Rhode Island, 2014
        - Sioux Falls, SD, 2013
        - Salt Lake City, UT, 2012
        - Nashville, TN, 2011
        - South Africa, Chile, ...

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

Ongoing Updates
| PCI/SCI/FOD ImprovementsPrediction Modeling ImprovementsCondition Analysis ImprovementsOne DatabaseM&R improvementsFrench and Spanish versions |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

P7.2 - Software Integration

Programs
| Name                       | Date of Adoption | AdvisoryCircular            | Description                                                                                                                                                                          |
|----------------------------|------------------|-----------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| PAVEAIR                    | N/A              | NA                          | Web-based application for airport pavement management system, including PCI evaluations.                                                                                             |
| FAARFIELD 1.3FAARFIELD 1.4 | 20092016         | 150/5320-6E150/5320-6F      | FAA Rigid and Flexible Interactive Elastic Layer Design. Mechanistic-Empirical thickness design. Uses NIKE3D for rigid and LEAF for flexible.                                        |
| ProFAA                     | 2009             | 150/5380-9                  | Longitudinal roughness profile analysis, roughness index computation, and aircraft ride simulation.                                                                                  |
| FEAFAA 2.0                 | NA               |                             | 3D FEM program for rigid pavement response computation. Up to 9 slabs. Used to improve and extend FAA-NIKE3D.                                                                        |
| BAKFAA                     | 2003             | Recommended in 150/5370-11A | FAA back-calculation of elastic layer properties using LEAF. Also computation of elastic layered system responses and used for LEAF development.                                     |
| LEAF                       | 2003             | NA                          | Layered Elastic Analysis FAA. Windows DLL layered elastic computational engine written in Visual Basic. Can be compiled to a DLL and used as a component of other programs. (BAKFAA) |

I will start with 7.2, because this project has raised some concerns, and also I this this is a difficult project

Here’s the programs will be involved in this project, and some of them are in FAA ACs

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

P7.2 Software Integration

Our Vision

Here’s the rough idea of software integration. Basically each program runs independently, and can communicate with each other. 

Another note is that COMFAA will be merged to FAARFIELD program

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

P7.2 - Software Integration
        - Update existing programs to current technology and environments.
        - Meet FAA information technology standards and requirements.
        - Each program must be a standalone program after upgrade.
        - The programs must be able to communicate with each other, and generally act like a software suite.
        - Integration means information sharing and information passing, does not mean combining programs into one big suite.

Baseline Requirements

Current technology and environments, means hardware and software. 10 years ago, we use windows 95/98, with 256 MG memory, and use 1.4MG floppy drive. now the cheapest Dell computer starts with 4 gb memory. Some program started in 1999, at that time, the program was developed for the hardware existed then. We must continuously upgrade the software keep up with hardware and software changes.

To source code and design must meet IT standard

This list is some preliminary thought, before we go any further, our branch will get together and establish some baseline and requirements.

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

P7.2 Software Integration
        - Finalized the software integration plan based on the baseline requirements
        - Start the process of FAARFIELD-LCCA integration. 

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

P7.3 - ANG-E260 Website
        - Contents
        - Visits
        - Development

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

Website Contents
        - Web pages: 686
        - Documents: 2224 +
        - MS Word: 481
        - PDF: 710
        - Presentations: 148
        - Excel: 754
        - Zip: 131
        - Programs
        - FAA PAVEAIR
        - FAARFIELD
        - COMFAA
        - FEAFAA
        - LEDFAA
        - BAKFAA

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

Website Contents - Continued
        - National Airport Pavement Test facility
        - Construction Cycle (CC) 1 
        - CC 2
        - Test Strip
        - Single Slab
        - Twin Slab
        - Test Items
        - CC 3
        - CC 4
        - CC 5
        - CC 6
        - F/HWD Equipment Round-Up
        - Airport Instrumentation 
        - Denver International Airport
        - Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport
        - LaGuardia Airport
        - JFK International Airport 

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

Website Visits - 2016

*

RPA P7 Software Programs

August, 2017

www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov

*