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Description of Modification
Update CFDA Numbers from 00.000 to 43.004
Document Type:
Modification to Previous
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
NNH09ZEA001N-AP1R
Opportunity Category:
Other
Posted Date:
Oct 20, 2009
Creation Date:
Oct 22, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 01, 2009
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Dec 01, 2009
Archive Date:
Dec 31, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Grant
Procurement Contract
Category of Funding Activity:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
43.004
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Aeronautics, Recovery Act
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Agency Name
NASA Headquarters
Description
The NextGen-Airportal Project works in close collaboration with the NextGen-
Airspace Project to conduct airspace and Airportal foundational research and
discipline-based technology development for the nation. The Project focuses
NASA’s technical expertise and world-class facilities to enable the highest
possible efficiency in the use of gates, taxiways, runways, metroplex airspace,
and other Airportal resources. In pursuit of that goal, the project is researching,
developing, demonstrating, and validating operational concepts, proof-of-concept
systems, algorithms, technologies, tools, and operational procedures designed to
maximize capacity and throughput in the Airportal environment while enabling
associated elements of the Next Generation Air Transportation System
(NextGen) as defined by the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO).
Project performance objectives seek to use 4-D trajectories (aircraft path from
“block-to-block,” including the path along the ground) to plan and execute
system-wide operations; integrate 4-D trajectory operations with safe, optimized
surface and terminal area traffic operations (particularly those associated with
C-14
wake hazard prediction and avoidance); balance environmental issues in, and
around, airports; match surface and airside capacities with arrival and departure
air traffic flow; and assess local benefits of Airportal transformation by modeling
changes to the current airport configuration. In support of these objectives,
research activities will focus on:
• Optimization of surface traffic
• Dynamic airport configuration management
• Advanced technologies to detect and avoid wake vortex hazards
• New procedures for performing safe, closely spaced and converging
approaches at closer distances than are currently allowed
• Modeling, simulation, and experimental validation focused on efficient
operations of single and multiple regional airports (metroplex)
NextGen-Airportal Project research focus areas (RFAs) are the following: Safe
and Efficient Surface Operations (SESO), Coordinated Arrival and Departure
Operations Management (CADOM), and Airportal and Metroplex Integration
(AMI). SESO conducts research to manage traffic on the airport surface (gates,
taxiways, and runways) safely and efficiently to enable maximum throughput and
capacity in the airport environment. CADOM focuses on concepts and
technologies needed to mitigate operational constraints to maximizing single and
multiple airport capacity. AMI focuses on management of metroplex operations,
integration of work across the Project’s technical areas, and crosscutting
research (e.g., human/system integration and concept analyses for portfolio
management).
The NextGen-Airportal Project team has developed a plan that will enable
capacity and efficiency improvements in the airportal domain through joint
research efforts and partnerships with other government agencies. In addition to
conducting core research and development, NASA will establish Space Act
Agreements with U.S. industry to address research partnerships at the systemwide
level, including systems integration and operational applications. The
Project will utilize this NASA Research Announcement (NRA) to leverage inhouse
foundational research with academic institutions, non-profit organizations
and industry performing foundational research to address technology gaps.
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