2010 Annual Report - RTCA

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SPECIAL COMMITTEES RTCA Special Committees (SCs) leverage the expertise of the aviation community to generate recommendations in response to requests (Taskings) from the FAA to develop minimum performance standards and guidance for aircraft systems and equipage. Special Committees develop recommendations, Minimum Aviation System Performance Standards (MASPS) and Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS) that shape the certification of the safety and efficiency of new equipment, as well as guidelines and reports. Minimum performance standards facilitate a robust and competitive market for the implementation of these technologies. RTCA standards are frequently referenced in FAA Technical Standard Orders and Advisory Circulars and, thereby, provide a partial basis for the certification of equipment. RTCA documents are also used by the private sector for development, investment and other business decisions. Many of these Special Committees are EUROCAE joint committees to develop internationally harmonized recommendations. SC-225, Small- and Medium-Sized Rechargeable Lithium Batteries & Battery Systems is developing certification guidance for small- and medium-sized rechargeable lithium batteries and battery systems with the goal of providing certification guidance for batteries that are permanently installed in an aircraft, including those installed with Line Replacement Units. Chair: Richard Nguyen, The Boeing Company Designated Federal Official: Norman Pereira, FAA SC-224, Airport Security Access Control Systems is revising DO-230B, Integrated Security Standard for Airport Access Control, to address expected changes to federal credentialing standards and standard practices at airports. Co-Chairs: Christopher Runde DHS/TSA; Christer Wilkinson, AECOM System Solutions Designated Federal Official: Joe Hebert, FAA SC-223, Airport Surface Wireless Communications is developing standards for the Airport Wireless Surface Communications System to support data communication developments for collaborative decision-making (CDM), the surveillance broadcast system (SBS), system wide information management (SWIM), as well as weather and flight information systems (FIS) efforts on the airport surface. Co-Chairs: Edward (Ward) Hall, ITT/Aerospace Communications Division; Aloke Roy, Honeywell International, Inc. Designated Federal Official: Brent Phillips, FAA SC-222, Inmarsat AMS(R)S is defining system level requirements and equipment specifications for the production of “Technique Specific Appendices” to several RTCA documents to add safety service capability to SwiftBroadband. Co-Chairs: E. F. Charles LaBerge, EFC LaBerge 8 | RTCA | 2010 Annual Report
Engineering & Analysis, LLC and Daryl McCall, Fastek International Designated Federal Official: Kevin Mattison, FAA SC-221, Aircraft Secondary Barriers is developing guidance for aircraft secondary barriers and alternative flight deck security procedures to address common design characteristics, minimum performance criteria, installation guidance and approval certification guidance for Installed Physical Secondary Barriers (IPSBs). Co-Chairs: Ed Folsom, United Airlines; Richard (Rick) Schiefelbein, The Boeing Company Designated Federal Official: Pat Hempen, FAA SC-220, Automatic Flight Guidance and Control (AFG&C) Systems completed work of developing MOPS and installation guidance for AFG&C systems to support a wide variety of aircraft types, including transport category airplanes, small business jets and commuters, small airplanes and rotorcraft. SC-220 is also working on an installation Guidance Document for Automatic Flight Guidance and Control Systems. Co-Chairs: Sherif Ali, GE Aviation; William Nolte, Honeywell International, Inc. Designated Federal Official: Lee Nguyen, FAA SC-219, Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) is developing MOPS for Solid-State Strap- Down Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) to address system performance, failure conditions and environment testing requirements not covered in current guidance. Chair: Keith Kerley, Rockwell Collins, Inc. Designated Federal Official: Dara Gibson, FAA SC-218, Future ADS-B/TCAS Relationships completed its work at the end of 2009 after developing a document on the assessment, operational concept and recommendations on the future relationship between ADS-B and TCAS. It activities as a SC were concluded in March 2010. Co-Chairs: Paul Fontaine, FAA; Larry Newman, ALPA Designated Federal Official: Mike Frank, FAA SC-217, Terrain and Airport Databases is updating several RTCA documents related to airport mapping databases to include requirements identified in related standards documents, including ARINC 816-1 and AIXM 5.0, and to update the standard that defines the exchange of this information between governments, data providers and data integrators. Co-Chairs: John Kasten, Jeppesen; Stephane Dubet, SIA Designated Federal Official: Michael Burski, FAA SC-216, Aeronautical Systems Security completed work of developing an Airworthiness Integrity Process Specification for aeronautical electronic and networked systems security as well as developing security assurance and assessment processes and methods for safety-related aircraft systems. Co-Chairs: Daniel Johnson, Honeywell International, Inc; Chuck Royalty, The Boeing Company Designated Federal Official: Raymond DeCerchio, FAA SC-214, Standards for Air Traffic Data Communication Services is addressing issues associated with developing standards for safety, performance and interoperability requirements for Air Traffic Services (ATS) that are supported by data communications. Chair: Paul Mettus, Lockheed Martin Corporation Designated Federal Official: Gregg Anderson, FAA SC-213, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems and Synthetic Vision Systems (EFVS/SVS) released one document during the year and continues development of guidance for SVS, EFVS and combined architectures to identify intended operations and systems architectures. Co-Chairs: Tim Etherington, Rockwell Collins, Inc.; Patrick Krohn, Universal Avionics Designated Federal Official: Barry Miller, FAA SC-209, ATCRBS/Mode S Transponder is developing a revised document required to conform to RTCA standards with the jointly-made decisions on 1090 ES transponders that resulted from updating other RTCA documents (DO-260A and DO-260B). Co-Chairs: Thomas Pagano, FAA; Robert Saffell, Rockwell Collins, Inc. Designated Federal Official: Richard Jennings, FAA 2010 Annual Report | RTCA | 9
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