Creating the Future of Aviation

Technical and Professional Activities 2014

March 2015

The MITRE CorporationCenter for Advanced Aviation System Development

www.mitre.org

Table of ContentsIntroduction 1

Books, Journals, and Periodicals 3

Conference Papers and Presentations 7

Honors and Awards 23

Professional Societies 31

Committee Memberships 37

Academic and Teaching Appointments 51

Book and Journal Editors 55

Index of Contributors 59

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IntroductionI am pleased to introduce our fifteenth annual compendium of the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASDs) technical and professional accomplishments. This book documents the significant outreach and collaboration demonstrated by The MITRE Corporation (MITRE) staff in support of our mission of advancing the safety, security, effectiveness, and efficiency of global aviation.

Delivery of the highest quality technical products has always been the hallmark of MITREs work. The advanced concepts, analyses, techniques, and technical results cataloged here provide the critical underpinnings that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and global air navigation service providers rely on to help drive capability development and inform decision making. We publish and present extensively in order to garner constructive feedback, to enhance these capabilities, and to gain new perspectives.

Our staff thrive on intellectual challenges and the opportunity to innovate. The aviation community is facing many challenges: integration of unmanned and commercial space vehicles, human/systems integration, agile development and fielding of new capabilities, and increased reliance on automation and autonomy, to name just a few. The papers, patents, awards, and other technical contributions documented here are a testament to the innovative spirit of our staff.

Also documented in these pages is the diversity of our staff and capabilities. Our products leverage a broad range of operational experience and technical depth. Our staff include engineers, scientists, pilots, controllers, traffic managers, former airline and military personnel, and more. We leverage a diverse set of technical strengths in engineering, computer science, operations research, human factors, economics, communications, and more.

We understand that the success of the FAAs Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) requires that new concepts and technologies be evaluated to ensure they meet technical and operational needs and have an implementation path for delivery of benefits. To that end, we actively manage the transition of our research and technology to industry and community stakeholders to ensure the realization of end-user benefits.

MITRE staff inspire us with innovative ideas for future aviation capabilities and by applying technical and operational rigor to ensure their viability. The contributions and achievements documented here highlight the critical role that MITRE staff are playing in making these advancements a reality.

Lillian Z. Ryals Senior Vice President, The MITRE Corporation General Manager, Center for Advanced Aviation System Development

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[1] Achieving Sense and Avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Assessing the Gaps for Science and Research, Stephen P. Cook and K. Douglas Davis. Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 2014, pp. 18411855, Springer.

[2] Classification of Air Traffic Controller Utterance Transcripts via Warm-Start Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, Marco Enriquez. Air Traffic Control Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 137156, 2014, Air Traffic Control Association, Inc.

[3] Comparison of Strategies for Continuing Time-based Metering during Inclement Weather, James S. DeArmon, Brendan P. Hogan, Philip Railsback, Sanjiv Shresta, and Matthew A. Yankey. Air Traffic Control Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 2247, 2014, Air Traffic Control Association, Inc.

[4] Estimating Approach Path Coverage of Aircraft-Derived Meteorological Data in Advanced Air Traffic Management Applications, Laurence F. Audenaerd. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, vol. 2449, pp. 5363, 2014, December 2014, Transportation Research Board of the Academies.

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[5] Evaluation of Airplane Upset Recovery Training, Valerie Gawron. Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors, vol. 4, no. 2, 2014, Hogrefe Publishing.

[6] FAA Rolls Out Revamped Air Traffic Forecasts Based on MITRE-Developed Model, Marlis McCollum, Felipe Moreno-Hines, and George H. Solomos. Managing the Skies, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1819, September/October 2014, FAA Managers Association.

[7] From Research to Reality: Pursuing Innovation to Support FAA Needs, Glenn F. Roberts. Managing the Skies, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1923, January/February 2014, FAA Managers Association.

[8] Global Positioning System, John M. Foley, Christopher J. Hegarty, and Sai K. Kalyanaraman. Digital Avionics Handbook, Third Edition, sec. 1, ch. 4, September 2014, CRC Press.

[9] Java 8 Pocket Guide: Instant Help for Java Programmers, Robert Liguori and Patricia Liguori. April 2014, OReilly Media.

[10] Multivariate Probabilistic Collocation Method for Effective Uncertainty Evaluation with Application to Air Traffic Flow Management, Yi Zhou, Yan Wan, Sandip Roy, Christine Taylor, Craig Wanke, Dinesh Ramamurthy, and Junfei Zie. Journal of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 44, is. 10, pp. 13471363, 2014, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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[11] Paired Approach in a Suitcase: Integrating FAA and MITRE Capabilities, Brennan M. Haltli. Managing the Skies, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 2324, November/December 2014, FAA Managers Association.

[12] Research Team Increases Airport Capacity by Helping FAA Safely Reduce Wake Turbulence Separation Standards, Marshall E. Koch and Marlis McCollum. Managing the Skies, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1315, March/April 2014, FAA Managers Association.

[13] Review of the Effects of Fatigue on Performance of Laboratory Tasks, Valerie Gawron. International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, vol. 3, no. 1, 2014, pp. 86103, Inderscience Publishers.

[14] Standards and Certification of a UAS Sense and Avoid Capability, Andrew D. Zeitlin. Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, ch. 37, July 2014, Springer.

[15] VOR Decommissioning Plan Expected to Produce Huge Savings, Deborah A. Kirkman, Marlis McCollum, Frederick A. Niles, and James K. Reagan. Managing the Skies, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1315, July/August 2014, FAA Managers Association.

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[16] Adding Paired Departures to WTMDMajor Benefit Availability Increase, Clark R. Lunsford. Presented at WakeNet USA, March 27, 2014, Moffett Field, CA.

[17] Aeronautics Technology Development Plenary Session, Glenn F. Roberts. Moderator. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2014 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum, June 1620, 2014, Atlanta, GA.

[18] Air Route Clustering for a Queuing Network Model of the National Airspace System, James S. DeArmon, Tudor Masek, Christine P. Taylor, and Craig R. Wanke. Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2014 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum, June 1620, 2014, Atlanta, GA.

[19] Aircraft Access to SWIM (AAtS) Demonstration, Melissa A. Shoemaker. Presented at the Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference, August 2628, 2014, Silver Spring, MD.

[20] Airport Meteorology Analysis, Alexander Alshtein. Presented at the International Civil Aviation Organization Business Class 2014 Symposium, October 1416, 2014, Montreal, Canada.

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[21] AIS and MET Data Link Services Modeling and Analysis, Izabela L. Gheorghisor and Vinay Lakshminarayan. Proceedings of the 33rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), October 59, 2014, Colorado Springs, CO.

[22] Analysis of Advanced Flight Management Systems (FMSs), Flight Management Computer (FMC) Field Observations Trials: Performance Based Navigation to x Landing System (PBN to xLS), Michael R. Cramer, Albert A. Herndon, Jr., William A. Miller, and Laura Rodriguez. Proceedings of the 33rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), October 59, 2014, Colorado Springs, CO.

[23] Analysis of Advanced Flight Management Systems: PBN to xLS, William A. Miller. Presented at the CNS Taskforce, December 811, 2014, San Diego, CA.

[24] Analysis of Operational Shortfalls at Non-towered Airports, Kristina Carr, Anthony P. Colavito, Vilas D. Nene, Kurt Rammelsberg, and Ronald K. Stevens. Proceedings of the 2014 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, April 810, 2014, Herndon, VA.

[25] Analysis of the Excess Inter-Arrival Time Distribution, Gareth O. Coville, Christopher G. Roberts, and Lisa Wynnyk. Presented at the 2014 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, April 810, 2014, Herndon, VA.

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[26] Applying Improved Wind and Aircraft Performance Data in Wake Procedure Concepts, Laurence F. Audenaerd and Clark R. Lunsford. Proceedings of the 2014 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, April 810, 2014, Herndon, VA.

[27] Architectures for Advanced RAIM: Offline and Online, Juan Blanch, Todd Walter, Per Enge, Boris Pervan, Mathieu Joerger, Samer Khanafseh, Jason Burns, K