2009 Annual Report - RTCA

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Program Management Committee and Special Committees Program Management Committee (PMC) The Program Management Committee (PMC), itself a Federal advisory committee, manages most of the Federal advisory committee-related business of RTCA. The PMC currently comprises 19 members representing a broad cross-section of the aviation community and is structured to offer a balance between technical and operational considerations. The PMC establishes Special Committees (SCs) in response to an identified need by government and industry. The PMC approves the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Special Committees; approves the chairs; approves committee recommendations; reviews reports; and approves, modifies, returns for additional work, or disapproves these reports. Managing the SCs is a growing challenge for the PMC as aviation communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) systems are becoming increasingly complex and interdependent. In 2009, the PMC established an Integration and Coordination Committee (ICC) to ensure continued integration and coordination of Special Committee activities by instituting a review of all Special Committee TORs and monitoring the accomplishment of those TORs to ensure that integration and coordination issues are identified and resolved. Special Committees RTCA Special Committees (SCs) serve as Federal advisory committees and are generally formed in response to a request from the FAA or, less frequently, from the industry, to address more technical topics. Special Committees develop recommended minimum performance standards, including Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS); Minimum Aviation System Performance Standards (MASPS); Safety, Performance, and Interoperability Requirements (SPRs); and reports, and guidance on behalf of the aviation community. Special Committee recommendations, published as RTCA documents (e.g., DO-XXX), are frequently referred to by the FAA in Technical Standard Orders and Advisory Circulars and, thereby, provide at least a partial basis for the certification of avionics. RTCA documents are also used by the private sector for development, investment, and other business decisions. RTCA had 19 Special Committees (SCs) active for all or part of 2009. Of these, one (SC-223) was established by the Program Management Committee and one (SC-215) completed its work and was retired during the year. Consequently, as was the case at the beginning of 2009, there were 18 RTCA Special Committees active on December 31, 2009. Each of the Special Committees active during 2009 is briefly described below. SC-223, Airport Surface Wireless Communications was established at the request of the FAA to develop standards for the Airport Wireless Surface Communications System. These standards are required to support data communication developments for collaborative decision-making (CDM), surveillance broadcast system (SBS), system wide information management (SWIM), as well as weather and flight information systems (FIS) efforts on the airport surface. 8 RTCA • 2009 Annual Report
SC-222, Inmarsat AMS(R)S was established at the request of Inmarsat to define system level requirements and equipment specifications for the production of “Technique Specific Appendices” to revised DO-270, DO-262 and DO-210, as necessary, to add safety service capability to SwiftBroadband. SwiftBroadband is Inmarsat’s latest generation aviation communications service. SC-221, Aircraft Secondary Barriers was established at the request of the FAA to develop guidance for aircraft secondary barriers and alternative flight deck security procedures. The guidance is expected to address common design characteristics, minimum performance criteria, installation guidance, and approval certification guidance for Installed Physical Secondary Barriers (IPSBs). SC-220, Automatic Flight Guidance and Control Systems (AFG&CS) was established at the request of the FAA to develop MOPS and installation guidance for AFG&C systems. Aircraft operators are increasing equipage of AFG&C systems in support of safe and efficient flight operations. The MOPS and installation guidance will be used to support AFG&C equipage of a wide variety of aircraft types including transport category airplanes, small business jets and commuters, small airplanes, and rotorcraft. SC-219, Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) was established at the request of the FAA to develop MOPS for Solid-State Strap-Down Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS). The designs of the majority of the mechanical gyroscopes used in general aviation were created in the 1950s or before and have significant operational, performance, and failure mode properties relative to current technology. Low-cost AHRS based on solid-state technologies have started to replace conventional attitude and heading instruments to increase their reliability and accuracy. The MOPS is expected to address system performance, failure conditions, and environment testing requirements not covered in current guidance. SC-218, Future ADS-B / TCAS Relationships was established as recommended by the RTCA PMC to develop an in-depth report, Assessment, Operational Concept, and Recommendations on the Future Relationship Between ADS-B and TCAS. SC-218 shall assess the needed relationship between TCAS and ADS-B in the National Airspace System (NAS) in the period 2020-2025, taking into consideration anticipated air traffic density in that time frame. This committee was inactive and did not meet during 2009, pending further direction from the Program Management Committee. SC-217, Terrain and Airport Databases was established at the request of Jeppesen to update the documents DO-272, Industry Requirements for Airport Mapping Databases for Aeronautical Use, and DO-291, Terrain and Airport Mapping Database Exchange Standards, 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. The updated DO-272B and DO-291A were both published during 2009. 2009 Annual Report • RTCA 9
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