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Five steps to facilitating the convergenceof manned and unmanned aviation

Learn what is happening

in the industry today to make

the coexistence of UAVs

and manned aviation

in commercial airspace a reality.

David Vos, Ph.D.Senior Director, Control Technologies, Rockwell Collins

Copyright 2009, Rockwell Collins, Inc. All rights reserved. All logos, trademarks or service marks used herein are the property o their respective owners.


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Many in the aerospace industry believe there are more questions than answers relatedto mixing UAVs and manned aircrat in commercial airspace

In this eBook, you will learn about what is happening today, what can happen tomorrow

and everything else you need to know about acilitating the convergence o mannedand unmanned, military and civilian aircrat into one coordinated air traicmanagement system.

Feel ree to pass this eBook along to your colleagues in the industry.

Defining future airspace

How do we improve safety and reliability of communications, controls, sensors,engines and networking to enable the coexistence of UAVs and manned aircraftin commercial airspace?

What are the pros and cons of UAVs and manned aviation fly ing together incommercial airspace?

Who in industry and government is doing what tests, demonstrations and pilots today?

What are the critical technologies needed to make UAVs as reliable, or better yet,more reliable than manned aircraft?

What role does NextGen Air Traffic Management play in facilitating the convergenceof UAVs and manned aviation?

What is happening at the regulatory agency level today to facilitate mergedairspace operations?


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Integrating UAVs into commercial airspace is an init iative we have been advocating or many years.

There are just too many beneits not to be on the leading edge o these emerging capabilities. Similar

to the Internet which grew out o use by the military, then prolierated once civilian use and demand started,we expect the same t o happen with UAVs.

There is a lot happening in the industry today and progress is being made with technology demonstrations and

real time operations. We wanted to aggregate some examples and share with you the latest in this global initiative

with Rockwell Collins eBook: Five Steps to Facilitating the Convergence of Manned and Unmanned Aviation.

What does it take to make integrated airspace happen? At the most undamental level, it takes the successul

design, demonstration and implementation o greater levels o automation, redundancy, interoperability and saety

into the critical avionics and mechanical subsystems o both UAVs and manned aircrat.

We are very close. Enabling technologies such as Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), due regard

radar, automatic light and engine control, navigation, damage tolerance, RNP and others, tied into the NextGen

Air Traic Management system, are being approved and certiied at a rapid pace. The acceptance o these new

technologies is complemented by their availability in small, lightweight orm actors and at the required low

acquisition and implementation price points. Availability, approvals and aordability all come together to

acilitate this convergence.

Now that much o the technology is in place or, at least available, the next step is working with key regulatory

agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and EUROCONTROL to determine and implementthe standards and cert iications needed or UAVs to coexist with manned aircrat or their reliabilit y to meet

and exceed manned aircrat.

At Rockwell Collins, our UAV solutions are already perorming well on the major UAV production programs

including Watchkeeper, Shadow, and Sky Warrior. We are now taking our so lutions through the certiication

process to ensure compliance with existing standards, while we continue to develop the next generation

capabilities to bring to ruition the true beneits o integrated airspace.

Unlocking the potential of UAVs in commercial airspace


David Vos, Ph.D.Senior Director, Control Technologies, Rockwell Collins2


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Five steps to integrated airspace

Step 1 Discover what is needed technically to acilitate the convergenceo manned and unmanned aviation

Step 2 Develop and engage automated air traic management solutions:controls, navigation, communications, sensors, networking and more

Step 3 Stay apprised o the technology tests and evaluations underway byindustry and government

Step 4 Understand the rules as determined by agencies such as the FAA andEUROCONTROL and collaborate to drive global air traic management

Step 5 Change embedded culture and imagine the possibilities


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Step 1 Discover what is needed technically to acilitate the convergence o mannedand unmanned aviation

While todays UAVs bring an unquestioned list o capabilities to a growing variety o surveillance andproactive situations, their array o uses is still limited by the need to saely migrate their operationwith that o manned military and commercial aircrat.


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Step 1 Discover what is needed technically to acilitate the convergenceo manned and unmanned aviation continued....

Fortunately a number o technological advancements have been made in avionics and navigation capabilities tohelp create solutions that acilitate the sae and eective integration o UAVs into the next generation airspace.

This migration will rely heavily on automatic air traic management systems like ADS-B, which provides or theautomated notiication o an aircrats position to ground-based controllers, as well as to other manned andunmanned aircrat. The cost-eective availability and strategic implementation o these advanced avionics, navigationand communications capabilities will help demonstrate the extremely high level o precision, reliability and saetyrequired or UAVs to technologically and culturally coexist, waiver ree, with manned aircrat in common airspace.

Rockwell Collins is the recognized industry leader in the development o new hardware and sotwaresystems that can enable many o the capabilities needed to acilitate airspace integration. We areintroducing and demonstrating new technologies that contribute to the improved perormanceo UAV, while optimizing the interaction and communications between UAV, ground operators and ATC.


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Step 2 Advanced automation and sensing enableNext Generation Air Traic Management

At Rockwell Collins, we are embracing automated air traic management rom all perspectives,providing the advanced capabilities needed to improve aircrat reliability and enable manned,unmanned, military and civil aircrat to coexist more eiciently and saely in common airspace.


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Step 2 Advanced automation and sensing enable Next GenerationAir Traic Management continued....

Flight Control, Navigation and RedundancyTo help maximize capabilities while controlling acquisition and operational costs, Rockwell Collins provides theAthena amily o INS/GPS/ADAHRS and autopilot/light control systems in a variety o integrated, miniaturizedand aordable packages. Dual-triplex and quad-redundant avionics or both UAVs and manned aircrat, crit icalto sae and reliable integrated airspace operations, are available today rom Rockwell Collins.See Shadow Video: http://www.rockwellcollins.com/athena/demos/shadow/index.asp

Auto-Takeoff and LandingTo take ull advantage o all o the capabilities oered by emerging UAVs, they must be able to operate in a totallyautonomous mode. Rockwell Collins proven automatic light control systems provide ull-mission pilotless

capabilities with unsurpassed accuracy and reliability. Today this technology is available or all types omanned and unmanned aircrat, rom a commercial airliner all the way down to the smallest civilianaircrat or tactical UAV. See video o a UAV auto-takeo and landing with Athena light controls.http://www.rockwellcollins.com/athena/demos/alenia/

Structural Damage/Fault ToleranceIn emergency situations caused by pilot incapacitation or structural damage to the aircrat,Rockwell Collins advanced adaptive light controls can enable an aircrat to continue to lyand saely return to home base or the nearest airport.http://www.rockwellcollins.com/news/page11697.html


A U.S. congressionalreport ound thatcurrent air trac

delays and congestioncost the national economy

$41 billion per year.

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Panic Button Emergency LandingUtilizing a combination o adaptive light controls, auto-takeo and landing, and damage/ault tolerancecapabilities, manned aviation will in the near uture be able to experience the beneits already realized byunmanned systems, with completely automated panic button auto-land. In the case o a bird strike orother damage, or pilot incapacitation, a light crew member or passenger can simply press a buttonduring an emergency and the aircrat will autonomously ly to the nearest airport and land saely.


Step 1

Aircrat

encounters

emergency

Step 2

Crew/passengerpresses guardedPanic Button

Step 3

Flight controls takeover and fy aircratto nearest airport

Step 4

Flight controls landaircrat saely

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Integrated Air Traffic ManagementThe FAA, other major governmental agencies, and industry including Rockwell Collins, all recognize the growingneed or technological improvements in airspace utilization and management. An example o this is the FAAsNext Generation Air Transport System. The NextGen program utilizes a variety o advanced automatedtechnologies, including ADS-B, which provides automated aircrat position reporting.


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Situational AwarenessUtilizing advanced data link technologies, IFF, ADS-B and multilateration solutions can greatly increase situationalawareness by automatically broadcasting an aircrats state vector, as well as communicating the positions o otheraircrat within a given sector o airspace. Capabilities like these, along with distributed computing, automaticcommunications and collision avoidance systems, give UAVs and manned aircrat the ability to reactively andproactively anticipate and avoid conlicts with not only other aircrat, but also buildings and mountains. And withorm actors and pricing continuing to decrease, solutions or situational awareness such as ADS-B are becomingaordable or general aviation, including homebuilts and even or hot air balloons and sky divers. Soon, all aircratwill be able to plug in to see and be seen in next generation airspace.

Integrated Communications: Radios, Data Links and NetworkingRockwell Collins oers superior communications, rom radios to common data links and high bandwidth networking

to provide valuable, real time, dynamic inormation about an aircrats location as it relates to others, bothcooperative and uncooperative. Our complete line o solutions eatures the smallest orm actors and thehighest transmission speeds or both voice and data.

Required Navigation Performance and 4D-Navigational CapabilitiesAt Rockwell Collins we believe the ability to seamlessly integrate with manned aircrat is crucial to opening the skiesto increasing UAV operations. Next generation navigation capabilities like Required Navigation Perormance (R NP)and 4D-Nav ensure the predictability and accuracy o separation and arrival times, improve aircrat trajectories,as well as increase the saety and uel eiciency o UAVs and manned aircrat.

Digital Engine ControlsEiciency gains through automation can be more easily achieved via simple interaces to digital engine controlsystems. For example, digital light controls including autoland require interaces to engine controls. Also,aircrat reliability can be signiicantly enhanced by bringing electronic engine controls to a much biggermarket manned, unmanned, military and civilian aircrat. As uel costs rise, levels o congestion increase,and manned and unmanned aircrat occupy common airspace, mission duration becomes a criticalcomponent to the success o the convergence. To achieve their long mission duration times and ensureengine reliability, optimum engine control and eiciency are key to maximum UAV utilization.Rockwell Collins Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) systems improve the overall perormance

and reliability o both manned and unmanned aircrat engines and have demonstrated up to a 20%increase in uel eiciency.


Approximatelyevery 20 minutes,

a UAV equippedwith a Rockwell Collins

Athena fight controlsystem completes a

successul autolanding.

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Due Regard and Weather RadarActively monitoring and avoiding aircrat or severe weather are keys to optimal UAV utilization. Rockwell Collinsairborne due regard and weather radar systems provide increased awareness and avoidance capabilities in alloperational conditions.


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Step 3 Stay apprised o the technology tests, evaluations and operations underwayby industry and government

At Rockwell Collins, we believe UAVs are capable o lying in common airspace alongside manned aviation.Achieving the ull potential o this manned/unmanned integration is more than a technological challenge it willtake a change in thinking. Our risk adverse culture is preventing aster integration. The only way to inluence achange in the standing culture is through demonstration seeing is believing. Demonstrations, pilot programsand some operations are occurring on a regular basis to show that the technology to enable UAVs to operate withextremely high reliability exists today. Key technologies such as ADS-B, due regard radar, redundant control systemsand more are enabling the convergence to materialize. Following are some examples o the demonstrations andoperations that are happening every day.

What Manned/Unmanned Demonstrations and Operations are Happening in the Industry Today?Manned/Unmanned Integration in the Battlespace

The reliability o todays UAVs has, in act, increased signiicantly over the past decade making themcritical tools in military operations in Iraq and Aghanistan. Through advancements in light controland navigation systems, as well as engines, radar and air rames, UAVs are operating today alongsidemanned aircrat around one o the busiest airports in the world.


Image concept courtessy of the United States Army.

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Step 3 Stay apprised o the technology tests, evaluations and operations underwayby industry and government continued....

Balad Air Base in IraqCurrently, there are up to 30 UAV lights daily rom Balad that are completely integrated with manned militaryhelicopters and jets, military and civilian cargo planes, as well as many other aircrat types. This is undeniableproo that this level o interaction is absolutely easible in the near uture or the commercial airspace.AviationWeek article:http://www.detect-inc.com/Documents/Article%20Aviation%20Week%20-%20How%20Unmanned%20Aircraft%20Will%20Sense%20and%20Avoid%20Other%20Aircraft%20-%20DeTect%20HARRIER%20078.pdf

Demand for UAVs continues to growTotal number o military UAVs has grown rom 167 in 2001 to 5,500. Predators and Reapers or example are lyingover 30 patrols a day in Iraq and Aghanistan. Because these airplanes cost less, are less risky and are invaluableor surveillance inormation, demand or UAVs will continue. In act , in the meantime, the U.S. military is equippingturboprop airplanes with the same video cameras as UAVs. With increasing demand or UAVs in the battlespace,UAVs and manned aircrat will increasingly coexist in the same airspace.World News Week Network article:http://article.wn.com/view/2009/03/17/Drones_US_weapons_o_choice/

UAVs are serving to keep you safeUAVs continue to increase their presence in commercial airspace as demand or these low cost, high utility aircratcontinues to climb. Places such as Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota are encouraging aster integrationto meet their goals o hosting an Unmanned Aircrat Wing by 2011. The FAA is considering restricting airspace just orUAVs around the air base. UAVs are being granted cer tiicates o authorization (COAs) rom the FAA to ly testsor operational missions related to police surveillance, border patrol, ire ighting and weather monitoring.Under the current rules, COAs require UAVs to ly under restrictions related to low population areas or VFR

only conditions. Oten times a chase aircrat or ground observer is required. Aviation Today article:http://www.aviationtoday.com/asw/categories/military/Drone-Flight-Authorizations-Take-O_30526.html

Proliferation of UAVs in safety-related and civil missionsUAVs are again being deployed or use in natural disaster situations. A Predator UAV was dispatched toconduct surveillance over the Red River lood area in North Dakota supplying video o the damage toauthorities to compare against pre-lood images. Ater taking some criticism or not deploying UAVsater the Hurricane Katrina disaster, UAVs are getting c learances more quickly and easily to ly overdisaster aected areas, as was also the case during the Gul Coast hurricanes and Southern Caliorniaires. Star Tribune article:

http://www.startribune.com/local/41841417.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUUr


Demand orUAVs is increasing.Did you know that

the total number oUAVs in the United States

in 2001 was 167?Today it is over 5,500.

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UAVs are helping scientists with critical weather and climate researchThe beneits o using UAVs or dangerous and dirty assignments is obvious or the scientists assigned to theArctic to survey summer melting trends or or the assessment o hurricane intensity. Furthermore, the use o UAVsenables a sustained period o analysis and constant data reporting as well as the ability to continue nonstop toremote locations. It is among these reasons that NOAA unded a $3 million, three-year Unmanned Aircrat SystemsProgram intended to test UAVs or this purpose. According to Marty Ralph, manager o NOAAs UAV Program, Datagathered by unmanned aircrat can help us understand how humans are aecting the planet and how we mightmitigate the impacts o natural disasters resulting rom severe weather and climate. The unding o this programis urther evidence o the expanding market and potential use o UAV technology.NOAA Article: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080122_aircrat.html

UAVs give local police eyes in the skyThe law enorcement community is trailblazing the use o UAVs in civilian airspace, and or good reason thebeneits are enormous. UAVs can operate around the clock. They dont tire, are more economical and can covermore territory than manned aircrat. But similar to military use, the purpose o UAVs in law enorcement andcivilian applications is to augment manned aircrat operations, not replace them. Police departments across thecountry are trialing UAVs to use or reconnaissance and surveillance. In Los Angeles, the sheris departmentexperimented with a UAV in commercial airspace in 2006. BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5051142.stm

In Miami and Houston, police departments are conducting trials o UAVs in cooperation with the FAA to determinerestrictions on when, where and under what conditions the aircrat can be lown. Many police departments see

the value o UAVs, which can provide real time video, ly or longer periods o t ime and cost less than operatingsimilarly equipped manned aircrat. Government Video article: http://www.theppsc.org/Archives/wp/?p=2388

Major United Kingdom UAV research program - ASTRAEAAutonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment, ASTRAEA, is an initial32 million joint government and industry evaluation program with the mission to research and testtechnologies to acilitate lying UAVs in desegregated airspace in Europe. Some o the technologiesbeing researched and developed include: ground technologies, communications, UAS handling,adaptive routing, collision avoidance, multiple aircrat integration, vehicle health monitoring anddecision modeling. Phase I o ASTRAEA culminated with simulated UAV light demonstrations, while

Phase II will involve actual light demonstrations. ASTRAEA article: http://www.projectastraea.co.uk/



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ASAC is key to DARPAs successful damage tolerance demonstrationRockwell Collins completed a successul light test o a signiicantly damaged unmanned F/A-18 subscale modelair vehicle. The Deense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored the light demonstrations held

in the spring o 2008, at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.

During the irst light test, nearly hal o the airplanes right wing was ejected to simulate battle damageand in-light ailure. During the second light, almost 60 percent o the airplanes right wing was ejected.Upon ejecting the wing section during both lights, Rockwell Collins Automatic Supervisory AdaptiveControl (ASAC) technology reacted to the airplanes new vehicle coniguration, automatically regainedbaseline perormance, continued to ly the plane, and then autonomously landed it using internalInertial Navigation System/Global Positioning System (INS/GPS) reerence only.Deense News article: http://www.deensenews.com/story.php?i=3609855



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Army Aviations Dynamic Airspace Management DemonstrationThe U.S. Armys Aviation System Project Oice brieed the audience at the Association o Army Aviation UAVSymposium in December 2008 about a demonstration titled Dynamic Airspace Management. The oice

demonstrated that UAVs can maintain the equivalent level o saety o manned aircrat, which is an FAArequirement beore UAVs will be granted unrestricted access to the national airspace. Current FAA restrictionsrequire a UAV to either have a chase aircrat or an observer on the ground. In addition, daylight only operationsare allowed. In a demonstration held in October o 2008, the Army incorporated sensors, communications,mitigation procedures and tunnels o airspace to demonstrate UAVs could ly collision ree with mannedaircrat. See presentation on AAAA website:http://www.quad-a.org/Symposiums/08UAS/Presentations/Potts%20COL.ppt

What ADS-B Demonstrations and Operations Are Happening in the Industry Today?


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ADS-B: unifying NextGen airspaceOne o the keys to making the sae integration o UAVs with manned aircrat in the NextGen airspace is theglobal implementation o Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). Because ADS-B radiates a signalcontaining an aircrats type, identiication, GPS position, altitude, heading, speed, intent (i.e., climbing, descendingor level) and other data, the technology gives aircrat, manned and unmanned, the ability to know where they areand where they are relative to other aircrat.

NextGen Air Traic Management is making progress as a result o the success to date with ADS-B pilots anddemonstrations in Alaska and by UPS. With ADS-B in the NextGen airspace, air traic controllers will becomeair traic managers. Federal Computer Week article: http://www.cw.com/Articles/2009/03/09/FAA-NextGen.aspx

UPS flights take off with ADS-BWhen youre operating the worlds ninth largest airline, it pays to take advantage o emerging technologiesthat can help you save time and uel. United Parcel Service, Inc., which operates 266 aircrat totaling some1,900 lights to and rom its hub in Louisville, Kentucky, has initiated a test program by installing ADS-Bon six o its aircrat. According to a story in The Washington Times, the goal o the test is to determinewhat kind o increased eiciencies the company can gain through improved inormation handling. Oneo the early beneits is that it enables the air carriers pilots to perorm a continuous descent landing,which cuts down on emissions and, according to the story, saves 40 to 70 gallons o uel per landing.

The Washington Times article:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/02/air-traic-control-evolves-as-aa-adopts-gps/


ADS-B has been provento save 40-70 gallons

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Capstone Project improves Alaskan air safetyAlaska has one o the largest populations o general aviation aircrat and pilots in the world. Unortunately,because o its combination o rough terrain, unpredictable weather and lack o radar and navigationalaids, it also has a high rate o atal accidents. During his testimony to the House Committee onTransportation and Inrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, Agam N. Sinha Sr., Senior VicePresident and General Manager o The MITRE Corporation, discussed the Capstone Project. Capstonewas a joint project between the FAA and aviation industry that ran rom 1999 to 2006.Under the test program, the FAA provided aircrat avionics, including ADS-B, to both private andcommercial aircrat in the region. According to Mr. Sinhas testimony, the results o the Capstoneprogram were dramatic, achieving a 49% reduction in atal accidents or ADS-B equipped aircrat.Video: http://republicans.transportation.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=532Written Testimony: http://republicans.transportation.house.gov/Media/ile/TestimonyAviation/2009-03-18-Sinha.pd

US Air puts ADS-B to the transatlantic testAccording to a recent story in Aviation Week & Space Technology, the FAA has given US Airways $6 millionto begin a pilot program to evaluate the beneits o satellite-based navigation and ADS-B or lights in thecongested northeastern airspace and long-haul transatlantic routes. US Airways expects to have the ADS-Bequipment on 20 o its Airbus A330 aircrat by 2010. The aircrat will use both ADS-B In and ADS-B Out,so they will not only transmit their own position inormation, but also be able to receive inormation romother aircrat. This automated two-way communication is key to achieving the goals o NextGen airspace.Aviation Week article:http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw012609p3.xml&headline=US+Airways+A330s+Slated+to+Test+ADS-B

NextGen ADS-B debuts in FloridaAn early milestone was reached with the roll out o NextGens ADS-B system at Miami International Airportin April 2009. This is the irst location in the United States where radar will be phased out and replaced withsatellite based ADS-B, providing more location inormation or air traic controllers and pilots. Long term,the NextGen system, with the aid o ADS-B, will allow pilots to ly more direct paths while improving saetyand reducing uel consumption and will acilitate the integration o UAVs into combined airspace.Miami Herald article:http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/989545.html


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Step 4 Understand the rules as determined by organizations such as the FAA andEUROCONTROL and collaborate to drive global air traic management

Global air traffic management and UAVsGlobal air trafc management and UAVs are intertwined. In the planning and development o next generation airtrafc management systems in the U.S. and in Europe, it is critical that global collaboration within governmentand industry groups occur and that UAVs be considered and planned or in the mix. Rockwell Collins Chairman, President,and CEO Clay Jones, when discussing the challenge o global air trafc management, the importance o collaboration,and increasing use o UAVs or an article in Flight International, said, We can be the generation and the global industrythat truly unites the planet politically, economically and culturally as we ace uture challenges.

United StatesFlying UAVs outside o segregated airspace in the United States National Air System (NAS) today can occur by oneo two methods: Certiicate o Authorization (COA) and Experimental Certiication. Neither method is a ixed,set-in-stone process. The FAA evaluates each applicant on its own merits, based on its needs, the aircrat,

desired light location, time, etc.

Outside o emergencies and disaster recovery, applying or a COA is generally a one light at a time process andtends to be easier the second time i nothing about the request/application has changed. UAV manuacturers areno longer able to apply or COAs, making lying a UAV in the NAS more challenging i the manuacturer does notalready have a military sponsor or the work. Only military and public use operators may be granted COAs.

An Experimental Certiication must be applied or each aircrat, but is good or multiple lights or a given seto ixed equipment, location and other conditions.

The FAAs website contains an extensive amount o inormation about how to apply or a COA, an ExperimentalCertiication, who to contact, Q&As and more. The site posts newsletters about approvals or COAs and otherprogress related to integrating UAVs in the NAS including the passage o the Small Unmanned Aircrat SystemAviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC), to begin to determine the irst set o standard rules or lying UAVs inthe NAS, starting with smaller UAVs.

http://www.aa.gov/about/ofce_org/headquarters_ofces/avs/ofces/air/hq/engineering/uapo/http://www.aa.gov/aircrat/air_cert/design_approvals/uas/cert/http://www.auvsi.org/news/sUAS_ARC.pd


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Step 4 Understand the rules as determined by organizations such as the FAA andEUROCONTROL and collaborate to drive global air traic management continued....

Other organizations involved in acilitating sae and efcient integration o UAV into the NAS include the Radio TechnicalCommission or Aeronautics (RTCA) Special Committee 203 (SC-203):(http://www.rtca.org/comm/Committee.cm?id=45)and UAV National Industry Team (UNITE) :(http://www.uniteaero.com/Archives/UNITE%20v2/html/index2.html).

SC-203s operates under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to make ormal recommendations to the FAA or UAVtechnical standards. UNITE is a non-proft industry organization comprised o several major UAV and subsystemmanuacturers including Rockwell Collins.

EuropeEUROCONTROL is the intergovernmental organization responsible or the saety o air navigation in Europe.

The organization has 38 members and is responsible or the vision, master plan, working plan and oversight o theSingle European Sky Air Trafc Management Research (SESAR) program. The goal o SESAR is to convert the segmentedair space o Europe into one sky with two major ATC centers. The program vision is to modernize the air trafcmanagement system in Europe, accommodate increasing air trafc, improve saety, reduce emissions through moredirect ight paths and ultimately reduce costs. The European Parliament and the European Council have fnalized theSingle European Sky legislation which should be ormally adopted later in 2009, accepting the SESAR master plan.http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/trans/106966.pd

While UAV integration into nonsegregated airspace is an objective o EUROCONTROL and is actively being pursued,convergence o manned and unmanned aircrat may be more complex in Europe than in the U.S. until SESAR is

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Step 4 Understand the rules as determined by organizations such as the FAA andEUROCONTROL and collaborate to drive global air traic management continued....

The European Organization or Civil Aviation Equipment (EuroCAE) Working Group 73,http://www.eurocae.net/workinggroups.html , recommends certifcation standards or UAVs in Europe, working closely withEUROCONTROL, the RTCA SC-203 committee in the U.S. and others to ensure technical standards will be consistentacross the globe.

Some o WG73s subgroups and priorities or UAV standards include 1) UAS operations, 2) airworthiness and continuedairworthiness, 3) command and control, communications and spectrum, and security, and 4) UAS or visual line o sight.

http://www.eurocontrol.int/eatm/gallery/content/public/events/Updated%20Presentations/9%20EUROCAE%20WG%2073.pd


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Step 5 Change culture - imagine the possibilities

Whether it is rom a mission success and perormance standpoint, or the economic and saety value o unmanned aircrat,the world has seen enormous success with UAVs conducting reconnaissance in Iraq, Aghanistan and other countries.As the need and desire to use UAVs in law enorcement, disaster recovery, fre fghting, weather monitoring, cargo deliveryand other applications continue to increase, and the civilian airspace becomes more and more utilized by UAVs and mannedaviation, the need or NextGen air trafc management, sophisticated levels o technology, and greater automationis critical.

It is unlikely that there will ever be an adequate number o ATC operators added to the system to manage the increase in airtrafc. The problem has to be solved with automation. This is a similar scenario to the growth o the Internet. Ater yearso increasing trafc, today Internet trafc and conict resolution are undamentally managed through automation. Withprograms such as FAAs NextGen air trafc modernization and the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) programunderway, more unding o technology and automation, such as ADS-B and RNP, is coming.

With positive results rom technology demonstrations in the areas o ADS-B, multilateration, RNP, damage tolerance,networking and communications, and with changes to industry and government cultures, we can expect to see UAVsying in commercial airspace in the very near uture.

And one day, we may in act be stepping onto an unmanned commercial or business jet, pressing a button to selecta destination, then sitting back, relaxing and enjoying a cup o automatically brewed coee.


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About the Author

Dr. Vos joined Rockwell Collins with the acquisition o Athena Technologies a leading ight control and navigationsystems company in April 2008. Vos was Founder, CTO and CEO o Athena Technologies. Having worked in theunmanned systems industry since its inception, he is a pioneer and a thought leader in the area o UnmannedAerial Vehicles (UAVs).

While still studying or his Ph.D. at MIT, Vos developed a new mathematical approach or treating nonlinear, highlytimed-variant systems as i they were both linear and time invariant. He proved this approach and the resultingtechnology with the invention o the worlds frst autonomous unicycle. With this success, Vos opened the door toan entirely new feld o dynamics and control.

Born in South Arica and now a U.S. citizen, Vos is the inventor and developer o Rockwell Collins Control Technologiescore technology. He holds patents in nonlinear control systems and other areas and has broad experience in guidance

and control systems.

In August o 2007, Vos was appointed by Virginias Governor Kaine to Commissioner o the Vint Hill EconomicDevelopment Authoritys Board o Commissioners. In June o 2007, Vos was named by Ernst & Young as anEntrepreneur o the Year in the greater Washington area.

Vos holds a B.S. in Engineering with Honors in Aeronautical Engineering rom the University o Stellenbosch,South Arica, an M.S. in Dynamics and Control rom MIT, and a Ph.D. in Estimation and Control romMIT, in the Department o Aeronautics and Astronautics.

David W. Vos, Ph.D.Senior Director,

Control Technologies, Rockwell Collins


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