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• X, Surface Conformance Monitoring, G02A.01-02

A, Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM), G06A.03-01

Program Description

The Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM) program is an acquisition program that delivers NextGen decision support capabilities to tower air traffic controllers and FAA traffic managers with decision support capabilities that integrate flight, surveillance, and traffic management information. TFDM will provide an integrated approach to maximize the efficient collection, distribution, and update of data including flight information in the terminal area (airspace around an airport and airport surface data) and to improve access to information necessary for the safe and efficient control of air traffic. The use of Electronic Flight Data (EFD) will allow tower controllers to maintain an integrated view of the air traffic environment, improving their situational awareness of the airport operations. The decision support capabilities will also provide more efficient and safe airport operations, in particular management of airport surface traffic sequencing and scheduling. TFDM will automate the manual flight data processes to enable enhanced data sharing between the Tower ATC and the En Route ATC, Approach Control ATC, Traffic Flow Management (TFM), and Flight/Airline Operations domains.

Early implementation of TFDM will be comprised of the following:

• TFMS Enabled Data Exchange for additional data elements from the Flight Operators;

• Deployment of a Surface Situational Awareness capability at Southern California TRACON (SCT) via SWIM;

• Sustainment of the Philadelphia (PHX) Advanced Electronic Flight Strip System (AEFS) prototype and deployment of additional AEFS prototypes at approximately 4 sites (Cleveland (CLE), San Francisco (SFO), Las Vegas (LAS), Charlotte (CLT); and

• Sustainment of the Electronic Flight Strip Transfer System (EFSTS) at 77 sites. Initial deployment of TFDM will be comprised of the following Core functions:

• Migration to electronic flight data exchange, including enhanced tower/TRACON data exchange; • Increased sharing and Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) based on shared surface situational

awareness and automatic surface surveillance data;

• TFDM scheduler/sequencer, including integration of Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS)/TBFM and Surface Collaborative Decision Making (S-CDM) implementation;

A key component of TFDM Core is the transition from paper flight strips to electronic flight data representation and exchange. This will facilitate enhanced flight data exchange between controllers within the tower facility, between Air Traffic Control facilities and between Traffic Flow Management systems. This will also facilitate data exchange with aviation partners such as the airlines Flight Operations Centers and airport operators to support collaborative decision making. Providing flight data in electronic format eliminates the necessity of physical exchange of flight data, reduces telephone exchange of data between facilities, and reduces manual re-entry of data among multiple ATC systems.

Another key component of TFDM Core is the introduction of a scheduler/sequencer capability that will provide the basis for efficient management of traffic flows on the surface at U.S. airports by transitioning the performance of airport surface operations from a “first come, first served” model to a more strategic model that allocates taxi clearances to minimize taxi distance and time.

Initial Investment Decision was achieved June 2014. Final Investment Decision date is planned for FY 2015.

Alignment of Program to FAA Strategic Priority and Performance Metric

• FAA Strategic Priority 2 – Deliver Benefits through Technology and Infrastructure.

• FAA Performance Metric 2 – Maintain an average daily capacity for Core airports of 58,166, or higher, arrivals and departures.

Relationship to Performance Metric

TFDM will automate manual processes; integrate existing terminal flight data systems and decision support tools, and provide new decision support capabilities. This will improve Air Traffic Control coordination and decision making to facilitate more efficient operations and increased airport capacity. The capabilities provided by TFDM will provide multiple NAS benefits, such as reduced surface delay, taxi time and fuel burn (with improved operational and environmental performance); better performance and airport capacity utilization during severe weather and other off-nominal conditions; improved usability and situational awareness and enhanced safety.

Program Plans FY 2015 – Performance Output Goals

• AEFS operational in CLE and LAS. • EFSTS Tech Refresh (Parts) Procurement. • Conduct Final Investment Decision for TFDM.

Program Plans FY 2016 – Performance Output Goals

• S-CDM Data Elements Enhancement implemented via TFMS. • AEFS operational in SFO.

• Start implementation of EFSTS.

• Complete contract award for TFDM Core. • Conduct System Requirements Review (SRR). • Conduct Preliminary Design Review (PDR).

Program Plans FY 2017 – Performance Output Goals

• Conduct Critical Design Review (CDR).

• Begin incremental software and hardware development of TFDM Core system.

Program Plans FY 2018 – Performance Output Goals

• Initial deployment of Electronic Flight Data capability.

• Complete hardware unit testing and incremental software development testing of TFDM Core. • Begin System Integration and Government Acceptance Testing of TFDM Core.

Program Plans FY 2019 – Performance Output Goals

• Complete TFDM System Government Acceptance (GA) Test. • Conduct Operational Test program of TFDM.

• Complete TFDM Core Key Site installation and checkout.

System Implementation Schedule

X, Surface Tactical Flow, G02A.01-01

Program Description

The Surface Tactical Flow (STF) program is focused on the development of trajectory-based surface operations in support of NextGen. It leverages the development efforts of the NASA Surface Management System (SMS) and provides guidelines for the development of a collaborative Surface Traffic Management (STM) system. The STM system will provide the tools necessary to achieve a fully collaborative surface environment where the input of airlines, airports and air traffic controllers are all used to provide a shared surface situational awareness. Shared awareness is required to safely improve the use of airport capacity by coordinating surface and airborne trajectory based operations.

This program will demonstrate and document requirements for a series of capabilities that build to the NextGen vision for Surface Trajectory-Based Operations (STBO). Examples of capabilities include local data exchange which leads to the sharing of flight readiness information to enable collaboration of pre-planned runway schedules integrated with airborne trajectory-based operations. Surface flow management will reduce engine operating times during surface operations, resulting in fuel-savings and reduced environmental impacts and avoidance of surface gridlock.

The STF program will require changes to procedures in the flight operator and Tower environments. The program will follow incremental steps leading to the complete concept providing benefits at each step of the way while remaining aligned with the introduction of other NextGen technologies.

The STF program will complete development on near-term STBO capabilities for: • Providing recommendations to optimize airport surface resources;

• Maximizing runway throughput by sequencing and spacing aircraft and managing queues for departing and arriving aircraft when demand for surface resources exceeds capacity;

• Exchanging operational surface data among stakeholders; and

• Developing a surface schedule that meets surface constraints and traffic management, arrival and departure constraints through collaboration with air traffic managers and flight operators.

The STBO concept is expected to be implemented as a set of decision support tools deployed on the Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM) automation system.

Alignment of Program to FAA Strategic Priority and Performance Metric

• FAA Strategic Priority 2 – Deliver Benefits through Technology and Infrastructure.

• FAA Performance Metric 2 – Maintain an average daily capacity for Core airports of 58,166, or higher, arrivals and departures.

Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM)

Core Capability: First site IOC: 2020 -- Last site IOC: TBD TFDM

2020 2015