The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Center for Network Centric Product Support (NCPS) Research, LLC. The collaborative research is in weather.
The objectives of this research are to establish a network centric airborne web server test capability on an FAA Technical Center aircraft for use in Next Generation Air Transportation System Net-Enabled Operations and System Wide Information Management tests. The focus of this activity will be to demonstrate an airborne network node using IP addressable protocols that will facilitate the real-time collection, processing, and synchronization of atmospheric and other related data in support of 4-D weather cube and weather in the cockpit development and demonstrations.
The government's Principal Investigator is Thomas E. Ryan at 202-385-7141. The point of contact for the collaborating party is David Loda, Center for NCPS Research, LLC, 860-221-9500.
This CRADA was awarded on October 23, 2008, and has a duration period of 36 months. The results are expected to be a series of real-time demonstrations of this network centric airborne communications capability focused on weather, along with a continuous feed of aircraft weather probe information to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and FAA databases.
More info: Deborah Germak, 609-485-9862
