REDAC / NAS Ops 

Ben Marple, ANG-C5

August 10, 2016

Runway Incursion Reduction Program (RIRP)  

Review of FY 2019 Proposed Portfolio

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Runway Incursion Reduction Program (RIRP)

Benefits to the FAA:

FAA Strategic Priority 1 – Make Aviation Safer and Smarter

FAA Performance Metric 4 – Reduce Category A & B (most serious) runway incursions to a rate of no more than 0.395 per million operation and maintain or improve through FY 2018

RIRP is the FAA Response to NTSB Recommendation A-00-66:

“Require, at all airports with scheduled passenger service, a ground movement safety system that will prevent runway incursions; the system should provide a direct warning capability to flight crews. In addition, demonstrate through computer simulations or other means that the system will, in fact, prevent incursions.”

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RIRP Overview Capabilities

People:

  Program Managers: Ben Marple

  Support Contractors: GEMS Inc., Veracity Eng. 

Laboratories:

  MIT/LL:

  Safety Logic and Technology Development

  System Requirements Development

 Volpe:

  Research / Data Mining

 MITRE:

 Benefit Estimation Methodology  

 Research / Data Mining

  Human Factors

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Anticipated Research in FY17 and FY18

Planned Research Activities

Runway Incursion Prevention Shortfall Analysis (RIPSA) candidate airport site surveys & ongoing evaluation of new technologies for inclusion within the RIRP Portfolio (2015 FAA Runway Safety Call to Action)

Initiate research on Surface Taxi Conformance and Monitoring for RI prevention (2015 FAA Runway Safety Call to Action)

Potential integration of SASS with runway safety logic and annunciators

Expected research Products

RIPSA Site Assessment Report & Program Plan for “Right-site-Right-size” technologies at candidate airports

Shortfall analysis report identifying RIs that may be prevented by various surface taxi conformance monitoring concepts at controlled airports

SASS surveillance capability report

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Emerging FY19 Focal Areas

Site Implementation and systems installation of localized/airport-wide surveillance and annunciation technologies at RIPSA Candidate Airports following the right-site, right-size model

Research and refine existing near and far-term capabilities needed to digitize taxi route instructions.

Operational test evaluation of SASS as a sensor to drive the activation of direct to pilot alerting safety logic

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Runway Safety Assessment (RSA)

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Outputs/Outcomes

Research Requirement

Out Year Funding Requirements 
| FY17    | FY18 | FY19   |
|---------|------|--------|
| $ 1.25M | $ 2M | $ 2.5M |

Develop Program Requirements for potential technologies at candidate airports as identified in the RIPSA report.

Sponsor: Runway Safety Group (AJI-14)                      POC: James Fee, Manager, Runway Safety, AJI-141 

Products:

 RIPSA “Right-Site-Right-Size” Assessment Report

 Program Plan for feasible technologies at candidate airports. 

Completed Runway Incursion Prevention Shortfall Analysis (RIPSA) report documenting RI causal factors and identifying small-medium airports that need RI prevention technologies.

Completed summary briefing on technical evaluation of feasible RI prevention technologies.

Initiated candidate airport site assessments.

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Surface Taxi Conformance Monitoring (STCM)

FY 16 Accomplishment / Issues

Outputs/Outcomes

Research Requirement

Out Year Funding Requirements 
| FY17   | FY18   | FY19   |
|--------|--------|--------|
| $ 750K | $ 1.5M | $ 1.5M |

New:  Conduct research to refine concept and develop tools for tower-based and cockpit-based taxi conformance monitoring

Sponsor: Runway Safety Group (AJI-14)                      POC: James Fee, Manager, Runway Safety, AJI-141 

Products:

Shortfall analysis report to identify Runway Incursions that may be prevented by various taxi conformance

monitoring concepts at controlled airports

 Expected impact estimate of taxi conformance monitoring capabilities on Runway Incursions at controlled airports

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Small Airport Surveillance Sensor (SASS)

FY 16 Accomplishment / Issues

Outputs/Outcomes

Research Requirement

Out Year Funding Requirements 
| FY17 | FY18   | FY19 |
|------|--------|------|
| $ 1M | $ 1.5M | $ 2M |

Develop Low Cost Surface Surveillance Sensor 

Sponsor: Runway Safety Group (AJI-14)                      POC: James Fee, Manager, Runway Safety, AJI-141 

Products:

 SASS system

Conducted preliminary ground surveillance (passive) data collection at Hanscom Field (KBED) using SASS units – Sep/Oct 2015

Demonstrated real time passive Mode S surface surveillance capability – Feb 2016

Demonstrated real time passive Mode S airborne surveillance capability – July 2016

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