Schedule of Events

2012 ATCA/FAA/NASA Technical Symposium

 Speaker Abstracts for each Session Panel will be posted on the Speaker Abstracts page
 

Resorts Casino Hotel

Atlantic City, New Jersey

May 22 – 24, 2012

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Tuesday, May 22

 

2012 ATCA Scholarship Golf Outing

 

7 a.m.                           Tournament Registration Opens

                                    Mays Landing Golf & Country Club

8 a.m.                           Tournament Tee Off

                                    Mays Landing Golf & Country Club

 

2012 ATCA/FAA/NASA Technical Symposium  

 

9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.          Exhibitor Registration

                                    Resort’s Ballroom

 

4:30 – 8 p.m.                 Registration Open

                                    Resort’s Ballroom

 

6 – 8 p.m.                     Welcome Reception
                                    Sponsored by: SRA International, Inc.

Night Fever, adjacent to Resorts Ballroom

 

8 p.m.                           Open Evening

 

Wednesday, May 23

 

7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.         Registration Open

Resorts Ballroom

 

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.            Continental Breakfast

Resorts Ballroom

 

7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.         Speakers/Moderators Room Open

Horizon Room

 

8:30 – 9 a.m.                 Welcome & Opening Remarks

                                    Superstar Theatre

Peter F. Dumont, President & CEO, Air Traffic Control Association

Monte Belger, Chairman, Air Traffic Control Association, and Vice President of Industry Affairs, Metron Aviation

Dr. Wilson Felder, Director, FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center

 

9 – 9:30 a.m.                 A Morning with Rick Ducharme*, Federal Aviation Administration

                                    Interviewed by Peter F. Dumont, Air Traffic Control Association

                                   

9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.    Exhibit Hall Open

                                    Resort’s Ballroom

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.          Exhibit Hall Opening & Refreshment Break

                                    Resort’s Ballroom

 

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.       Use of Test Beds to Advance NextGen Research and Demonstrations*

Test beds play a critical role in the research, development, testing, and demonstration of NextGen concepts, procedures, and technologies.  They provide a mechanism for government, industry, and academia to collaborate on trying out new ways of operating in a realistic environment, evaluating operational impacts and reducing risk prior to implementation.  During this session, you will hear about several NextGen facilities, including their capabilities, results from recent noteworthy simulation and demonstration efforts, innovation successes, lessons learned, and plans for upcoming work.

 

Moderator:     

·         Wes Wright, Federal Aviation Administration

 

Speakers:

·         Jack Blackhurst, Department of Defense

·         Mike Burkle, Lockheed Martin

·         John Cavalowsky, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

·         Doug Davis, New Mexico State University

·         Vince Lasewicz, Federal Aviation Administration

 

Coordinator: 

·         Stephanie Fraser, Metron Aviation

·         Rachel Kinney, Engility Corporation

 

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.   Luncheon Buffet

Resorts Ballroom and Capriccio Restaurant

 

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.            Airport Surface Movement: Gate to Threshold*

This session will address the current and future state of airport surface operations, and how these operations relate to the FAA, airlines, airport authorities, facility infrastructure providers, and NAS equipment suppliers.  The panel members will discuss surface movement, situational awareness, the latest surveillance and communication technologies, environmental impacts, and how these items impact efficient operations and safety within the airport surface environment.

 

Moderator:     

·         Dave Rhodes, Computer Sciences Corporation

 

Speakers:

·         Keith Brune, Philadelphia International Airport

·         Ted Carniol, ITT Exelis

·         Robert Goldman, Delta Airlines

·         Dan Smiley, Federal Aviation Administration

·         Akbar Sultan, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

·         Peter Tomlinson, NATS UK

 

Coordinator: 

·         Dan Courain, ITT Exelis

·         Joe Salvatore, Federal Aviation Administration

·         Carleen Genna, Federal Aviation Administration

 

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.            Networking Break

                                    Resort’s Ballroom
 

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.            Automation Convergence*

This Panel will consider an 'enterprise' approach to ATC automation, whereby a single automation platform will be utilized for terminal & enroute functionality. In this scenario, the current, stratified automation platforms for the two primary domains are replaced by an enterprise-wide ATC automation platform to achieve the strategic goals of NextGen of greater system capacity and enhanced safety. Issues that may be addressed by this Panel could include the risks of migrating to a single automation platform vs. two; lessons learned from evolving the existing terminal & enroute automation programs/platforms; potential features of a single platform, such as flexibility, scalability, as well as issues such as vulnerability (i.e., to cyber attacks); challenges of evolving from today's environment to a single platform; and more.

 

Moderator:     

·         Beth Beach, SAIC

 

Speakers:

·         Tony Jagodnik, Raytheon

·         Jim Linney, Federal Aviation Administration

·         Jeff Merrow, Professional Aviation Safety Specialists

·         Sid Rudolph, Lockheed Martin

·         Mitch Herrick, National Air Traffic Controllers Association

·         Lillian Ryals, Mitre Corportation

 

Coordinator: 

·         Randy Kenagy, Raytheon

·         Jack Nager, Raytheon

 

5 – 6:30 p.m.                 Networking Reception with Exhibitors

                                    Resort’s Ballroom

 

6:30 p.m.                      Open Evening

 

Thursday, May 24

 

7:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.   Registration Open

                                    Resort’s Ballroom

 

7:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.         Speakers/Moderators Room Open

                                    Horizon Room

 

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.            Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 – 9:45 a.m.            NextGen Tower Service Concepts*

This panel will take a hypothetical approach as if NextGen towers have been implemented. This panel will take a look at the operational aspects of these towers in regards to users, failure of technical components, concept of operations and the safety requirements.

 

Moderator:     

·         Karl Grundmann, Aviation Management Associates

 

Speakers:

·         Ric Loewen, National Air Traffic Controllers Association

·         Dr. Eric Neiderman, Federal Aviation Administration

·         Dr. Hayley Davison Reynolds, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

·         Mark Robinson, SaabSensis

·         Chris Smith, Serco

·         Ken Tollstam, SRA International

 

Coordinator: 

·         Steve Carver, Aviation Management Associates

·         Paul Planzer, Air Traffic Control Association

 

9 a.m. – 12 p.m.            Exhibit Hall Open

 

9:45 – 10:30 a.m.          Networking Break

                                    Resort’s Ballroom

 

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.        Collaboration

In a NextGen environment, Collaborative Air Traffic Management (CATM) is expected to provide shared situational awareness and information on constraints in the National Airspace System (NAS) to NAS users.  Information across all segments of flight from Flight Planning to Taxi/Takeoff, Cruise, and Descent/Final Approach and Landing would be available to Airline Operation Centers via System Wide Information Management (SWIM) or DataComm.  Better situational awareness will enable flight planners to identify alternate routes and collaborate with operators on preferred re-routing alternatives that can better meet airline business rules.  Key elements to achieving CATM will include development of alternative trajectory options for flights, maturing of the Flight Data Object, integrating weather into air traffic management. 

 

This panel will include representatives from FAA, industry and the stakeholder/user community to share insights on efforts under way to develop the technologies needed to achieve CATM.  Scenarios of how CATM may enable greater efficiency will be explored by the panel members.

 

Moderator:     

·         Jack Kies, Metron Aviation

 

Speakers:

·         Bill Cranor, JetBlue

·         Steve McMahon, Federal Aviation Administration

·         Chip Meserole, The Boeing Company

·         Ron Foley, National Air Traffic Controllers Association

·         Mike Wambsganss, Crown Consulting

 

Coordinator: 

·         Janice Coates, Hi-Tec Systems

·         Kathy Lane, Lockheed Martin

 

12 – 1:30 p.m.               Luncheon Buffet

Resorts Ballroom and Capriccio Restaurant

 

1:30 – 2:45 p.m.            Operational Aspects of NextGen Architecture*

As NextGen capabilities progress towards implementation, the NAS is going to evolve in dynamic and sometimes unpredictable ways.  This gradual evolution will take place in many realms:  communications, policies, roles and responsibilities, airspace configuration – and at many levels from individual sectors of airspace to entire facilities and future facilities.  This panel will focus on what are the enterprise-wide challenges and issues facing the end-users (pilots, controllers, airports authorities, AOC’s, etc.) who will operate the evolving system, including such issues that are not being addressed or possibly not even thought of as of yet.  Panelists will also address strategies and methodologies for incremental technology insertion, techniques for maximizing operational performance and acceptance of integrated capability baselines, and approaches for containing/reducing system life-cycle costs.  

 

Moderator:     

·         Neil Planzer, The Boeing Company

 

Speakers:

·         Chris Balcik, Booz Allen Hamilton

·         Steve Bradford, Federal Aviation Administration

·         Mel Davis, National Air Traffic Controllers Association

·         John O’Sullivan, Harris Corporation

·         Ken Speir, Delta

 

Coordinator: 

·         Brian Legan, Booz Allen Hamilton

·         Barry Sullivan, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

 

2:45 – 3:00 p.m.            Symposium Summary and Closing Remarks

Peter F. Dumont, President & CEO, Air Traffic Control Association

Jim Washington, Chairman-Elect, Air Traffic Control Association, and COO, Brandon Technology Consulting, Inc.