Airside and Landside Operations

Our capabilities include:

• ATC Systems Integration
• Airspace Procedures
• Runway Incursion Systems
• Human Factors Engineering
• Flight Test Operations
• Airport Operations
• Successes

ATC Systems Integration
SAIC supports change transition, human resource planning, and implementation of facility and support projects identified in the FAA's Capital Investment Plan. SAIC's assistance to the FAA in critical technical, planning, and management areas includes:

• Shortfall analysis
• Human factors analysis and engineering
• Requirements determination
• Alternative and investment analysis
• Program management support
• Operational implementation planning
• Support engineering evaluation
• New airport systems/transition engineering
• Infrastructure management
• Performance measurement
• Spectrum engineering

Airspace Procedures
SAIC provides systems engineering and acquisition support to the U.S. government for the design, development, test and use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for civil and military applications, including flight in controlled airspace. We provide terminal airspace management using CNS/ATM procedures. Support includes air traffic control radar approach and tower operations.

Runway Incursion Systems
SAIC has supported systems integration of new and emerging technologies in LED lighting, and pattern recognition software to help prevent runway incursions at large and small airports. We have also developed lighting, vehicle tracking, and guidance systems.

Our work with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has involved lighting technologies such as: runway/taxi and intersection lighting systems, encapsulated linear LED lights, surface-flush mounted lighting, lighting control systems utilizing data signal transmission via wireless technologies or power lines, and computer software for manual or automated control of sequenced guidance lights and signage. In addition, our support of the Airport Vehicle Tracking System includes computer hardware and software, digital video cameras for aircraft N-number character recognition, and correlation with aircraft and ground vehicle movement pattern recognition.

Human Factors Engineering
SAIC provides human factors and associated engineering services that enable people to perform more safely and effectively within complex aviation systems. Development, operation and application services include:

• Flight simulators for training and engineering development
• Rapid prototyping environments for design and testing of effective human-system interfaces.
• Human performance modeling to assess human system designs, work processes, and associated issues such as workload, situation awareness, error and reliability
• Job/task analyses, cognitive task analyses, and work process studies
• Studies and analyses to identify and address specific performance deficiencies

Flight Test Operations
SAIC's airborne integration and flight testing systems analysis and exploitation experience includes management, integration, maintenance, and operation of airborne electronics, sensors and aviation assets for various DoD missions, agencies, and laboratories. SAIC provides aviation program management, test and support, and integration to the U.S. ARMY PEO-IEW&S, PM-ARL, the US Air Force and other government agencies.

SAIC offers the following services within the Flight Test Operations arena:

• Acquisition packages
• Review proposals
• Evaluate Engineering Change Proposal
• Support source selection activities
• Sensor system performance, design, project planning, and project control
• Develop SOWs for providing engineering support in developing airborne sensing systems
• Develop requirements, conduct analysis, provide integration and support testing
• Conduct sensor data analysis, exploitation and fusion
• Evaluation of new avionics hardware
• Develop budget requirements avionics
• Evaluation of vendors and integration methods
• Oversee installations of avionics systems

Airport Operations
SAIC's experience in airport operations includes the implementation of new airport systems and transition engineering. We also have expertise in the management, integration, maintenance, and operation of aircraft and other aviation assets.

In addition, SAIC has extensive experience in emergency response and disaster preparedness for public facilities. These capabilites include:

• Assessment of existing procedures
• Defining future planning processes
• Modeling scenarios
• Planning for technological and natural disasters

Success Stories

Air Force Research Lab Human Effectiveness Directorate
Under the Combat Automation Requirements Test bed (CART) program, SAIC developed and demonstrated human performance modeling technology for design of more effective crew systems.

Volpe Transportation Systems Center
SAIC supported the analysis of more than 90,000 air traffic controller and pilot radio communications and characterized them in terms of content, complexity and errors.

SAIC also helped to create a multi-media database that stored the results of the analysis, and assisted with the design of a flight simulation-based laboratory for the study of electronic library displays in commercial airliner cockpits.

Summer Olympics - Atlanta, GA
SAIC tested new lighting systems for heliports and investigated new lighting technologies applicable to airports and heliports. We also demonstrated a heliport lighting system during 1996 Atlanta Olympics.