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$60 million in exports of U.S.manufactured<br />
goods and services<br />
that was awarded by ISRO in July<br />
2009. USTDA did not sign a grant<br />
agreement with the Airports<br />
Authority of India for GAGAN,<br />
rather we sponsored a reverse trade<br />
mission to allow offi cials to see the<br />
technologies in action.<br />
According to the agreement<br />
USTDA will provide $407,325<br />
to support the AAI’s efforts to<br />
install and commission a pilot<br />
Ground Based Augmentation<br />
System (GBAS). Would USTDA<br />
also facilitate technical<br />
knowhow to this program?<br />
Recently, USTDA provided a<br />
grant ($407,325) to the Airports<br />
Authority of India (AAI) to assist in<br />
the installation, certifi cation, and<br />
operational commissioning of a<br />
Ground Based Augmentation System<br />
(GBAS) at Chennai airport. At the<br />
request of AAI, the USTDA assistance<br />
will fund the demonstration of a<br />
Honeywell’s GBAS SmartPath system<br />
pilot at the Chennai airport, a<br />
system that is already certifi ed with<br />
the Federal Aviation Administration.<br />
By gaining its operational service<br />
approval in India, the SmartPath<br />
system will help AAI achieve greater<br />
fuel effi ciency and cost savings for<br />
air carriers, as well as safety and<br />
effi ciency/capacity improvements for<br />
its many airports. Under the grant<br />
agreement, the technical assistance<br />
will support training of AAI and<br />
DGCA personnel for the installation,<br />
operational commissioning, and<br />
certifi cation of Honeywell’s GBAS<br />
and associated GPS Landing System<br />
(GLS) procedures at Chennai airport.<br />
Honeywell and FAA personnel, with<br />
the support of USTDA funds, will<br />
facilitate technical training on the<br />
GBAS technology.<br />
Could you highlight few key<br />
initiatives supported by USTDA<br />
pertaining to GPS in the South<br />
and SE Asian region?<br />
In addition to the Indian GAGAN<br />
Through collaborative<br />
efforts, our two<br />
countries are promoting<br />
compatibility and interoperability<br />
between the<br />
U.S. GPS and India’s<br />
navigation systems<br />
and GBAS projects, USTDA has<br />
supported a number of technical<br />
symposia related to GPS technology<br />
innovations for aviation in the<br />
broader South and SE Asia region.<br />
This has included sponsoring<br />
the APEC Aviation Navigation<br />
Technologies Workshops I and II,<br />
in 2005 and 2009, in cooperation<br />
with aviation partners in SE Asia<br />
and the U.S. FAA. The fi rst of these<br />
addressed RNAV/RNP aviation<br />
navigation technologies, and aimed<br />
to familiarize SE Asian aviation<br />
authorities with the technical<br />
capacities needed to implement<br />
and authorize these performanceenhancing<br />
navigational systems.<br />
The symposium focused on topics<br />
ranging from fl ight standards,<br />
aircraft certifi cation, air traffi c<br />
operational approvals, and the<br />
procedural implementation of RNAV/<br />
RNP systems. The second workshop,<br />
held in Bangkok Thailand, addressed<br />
the operational approvals of<br />
technologies such as Performance<br />
Based Navigation (PBN) procedures,<br />
as well as the implementation of<br />
other Global Navigation Satellite<br />
Systems (GNSS) approaches. This<br />
second workshop brought U.S.<br />
representatives together with<br />
aviation offi cials from numerous<br />
APEC economies and India to discuss<br />
the role of institutional, operational,<br />
and regulatory procedures needed<br />
to promote aviation modernization<br />
and a range of technologies related<br />
to the next generation air traffi c<br />
system, also known as NextGen.<br />
Most recently, in August 2010<br />
USTDA sponsored the Asia-Pacifi c<br />
Commercial Aviation Access<br />
workshop and reverse trade mission<br />
for approximately 40 senior<br />
aviation offi cials representing<br />
Shri V.P. Agarwal, Chairman, Airports Authority of India (shaking hands with Lee) Dr. Nasim Ahmad Zaidi, Secretary,<br />
Ministry of Civil Aviation (in the middle) Ms. Leocadia I. Zak, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency<br />
civil aviation agencies (CAAs) and<br />
airlines from Bangladesh, India,<br />
Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia,<br />
the Philippines, Thailand, and<br />
Vietnam, in the San Francisco,<br />
CA and Seattle, WA areas. This<br />
initiative provided a comprehensive<br />
overview of the safety and security<br />
requirements needed to gain access<br />
to U.S. airspace, and also addressed<br />
opportunities presented to airlines<br />
and CAAs from adoption of growing<br />
GPS-related safety and navigational<br />
technologies.<br />
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