Mon, Jul 14, 2008
NASA Study Will Look At VLJs, SSTs, Heavy Transports And
UAVs
Raytheon will lead a team of air transportation experts from
industry and academia to study the impact of new classes of
aircraft on the next generation air transportation system, or
NextGen.
The four new classes of aircraft -- very light jets, super heavy
transports, uncrewed aircraft systems and supersonic transports --
will soon enter what many believe to be an already overburdened air
transportation system.
"In 10 to 20 years we expect more
than one billion passengers will travel annually by airplane and
thousands of new consumer jets will fill the skies," said Andy
Zogg, Raytheon vice president of Airspace Management and Homeland
Security. "We are committed to working with NASA and our partners
to help address the complex issues facing the modernization of our
air transportation system."
The Raytheon team's work will augment NASA's Advanced Concept
Evaluation System, a fast time simulation model of the National
Airspace System, using existing environmental and safety models to
quantify how the new air vehicles and operational procedures will
impact NextGen.
Initially, the team will focus on developing recommendations for
future operational procedures, identifying air vehicle
characteristics and establishing system level metrics.
"Raytheon's extensive experience with air traffic management
operational procedures and our working knowledge of the Joint
Planning and Development Office's enterprise architecture will
allow us to perform valuable system trade studies," said Zogg.
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