The Federal Aviation Administration is leading the National Airspace System modernization e ort, in part by supplanting traditional air tra c services with GPS aided by the Wide and Local Area Augmentation Systems (WAAS & LAAS). Making GPS the sole-means of navigation will enhance safety, exibility and e ciency of operations for all aircraft ranging from the single engine general aviation aircr...

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for civil aviation, although the significance of reports in May that a computer security researcher hacked into aircraft control systems while flying as a passenger aboard commercial jets is still unclear. The probe into the alleged hacking incidents unfolded just weeks after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Transportation Security Administrat...

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I am pleased to be able to present the H. Parker Willis Lecture in Economic Policy here at Washington and Lee University. As you may know, Willis was an important figure in the early history of my current employer, the Federal Reserve System. While he was a professor at Washington and Lee, Willis advised Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, one of the key legislators involved in the founding of th...

Integrated Human Performance Model (HPM) validity is a paramount concern when HPM predictions are used for next-generation aviation system development. HPM validity is a challenge because of the integrated nature of the HPM and because many of the embedded behaviors may not be readily observed. A rigorous validation process is required to arrive at valid integrated HPMs and improve the credibil...

Cases of laser irradiation aircraft have become more frequent in the last 15 years and pose a greater threat to civil aviation security associated military due availability price lasers. Based on studies by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) opinion Czech experts this issue, protection zones been established around airports. However, they are not effective enough has until outbreak coronavir...

Commercial interest for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) has seen a steady increase over the last decade. Nevertheless, UAS operations have remained almost exclusively military. This is mainly due to the lack of a regulatory framework that allows only limited public and civil UAS operations with usually crippling restrictions. Although efforts from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ...

In 2001, the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center completed an evaluation of GPS vulnerabilities and the potential impacts to transportation systems in the United States. One of the recommendations of this study was for the operation of backup system(s) to GPS; Loran-C was identified as one possible backup system. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been leading a team consist...

The main challenges in predicting the weather are insufficient computational power and gaps in our understanding of the complex dynamics of atmospheric phenomena. There are comparatively straightforward solutions to these problems: enough teraflops, the right equations. But what happens when you have neither? This is the problem facing aviation turbulence forecasters, who are charged with the t...

Over the past decade, the federal government of the United States has eliminated or substantially reduced the regulation of price and entry in domestic aviation, trucking, railroads, interstate buses, ocean shipping, long-distance communications, energy, and financial institutions. In addition, the federal government eliminated the general controls or guidelines on prices and wages throughout t...