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Federal AviationAdministration

FAA Roles And Responsibilities in the MDCRS Program

MDCRS Management Team

Sandra Schmidt

September 7, 2006

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FAA Organizational ResponsibilitiesIn-situ

ObservationsMDCRS, TAMDAR

MDCRSOperational

Sandra Schmidt

Aviation Weather Research Program

Gloria KuleasaWarren Fellner

Enterprise ArchitectureCheryl SoudersBob Showalter

JPDO NGATS

Richard Heuwinkel

TAMDARAlfred Moosakania

Ernie Dash

Contract Management

TurbulencIIcing

Cost Benefit Analysis

Weather Roadmap

Policy

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OPERATIONS

RESEARCH

PROTOTYPE

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

NGATS

IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS

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MDCRS Data Processing by ARINC

ACARS

CentralProcessor

ARINC Packet

NetworkNADIN II

ARINC Data Network Service

NOAANCEP

MDCRS Server

BUFRMessagesACARS

BUFRMessages

NOAAGSD-ESRL

AirlineComputers

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Contract Agreement

• Service Provider – ARINC

• Period of Performance – 1 year contract with 4 option years

• Participating Airlines – AA, Delta, FedEx, NWA, SWA, UPS, United

• Data Provided– Over 100,000 in-situ observations per day

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MDCRS Coverage over the CONUS

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Topics to Discuss???VisionGoals

OptimizationStandardization

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Priorities

• Maintain current operational system• Maintain partnership with airlines• Obtain additional data in “data sparse areas”• Obtain additional data below FL200• Increase number of “participating airlines”• Enhance turbulence, water vapor and icing data• Manage communication cost • Optimize data• Align current program with future NGATS vision