The FAA Surveillance and Broadcast Services (SBS) program is currently upgrading air traffic surveillance capabilities and services using satellite-enabled technology. The primary tool for these improvements is Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B). The SBS program also includes fielding supporting technologies directed at lowering agency, operator and the National Airspace System (NAS) user operating costs, while enhancing safety, capacity, productivity, and efficiency. The FAA business case for the SBS program relied on several safety and efficiency benefit mechanisms on the surface, in the terminal area, and en route arising from an assortment of applications. While many of the projected SBS benefits are predicted for future years after increased ADS-B equipage, some of the most beneficial applications concerned providing near-term services to regions without previous radar coverage. To measure the actual performance of the program in comparison with the benefit claims the program developed Business Performance Measures (BPMs). This paper reports results from the BPM initiative by examining the measurable impacts of the SBS program for operators in three specific non-radar regions: helicopter operators in the lowaltitude Gulf of Mexico, air taxi operators in Alaska, and all users that fly in the mountainous regions of Colorado. The analyses indicate that IFR helicopter traffic in the Gulf has tripled since 2009 and ADS-B equipped flights have saved over 300,000 nm of flight distance in the region. In Alaska, the aviation accident rate for ADS-B equipped aircraft is 50 percent less than the non-equipped fleet. Arrivals and departures at Colorado mountainous airports have experienced over a minute of delay savings on average after new surveillance was provided. The results from these analyses represent quantifiable early impacts of the SBS program.

10 Sep 2013·AIAA SPACE 2013 Conference and Exposition

Affordable Space Systems

Author: Apgar, Henry E.

Assuring affordable space systems depends upon sound economic analysis coupled with applicable cost prediction models. Military and civil space acquisitions are facing increased resistance to the funding of expensive space exploration and operations programs. This paper begins with a review of contemporary examples of unaffordability and attempts to bring the programs back into fiscal balance. Next, this paper explores recent government initiatives to control space mission cost, including: design-to-cost (DTC), cost-as-an-independent-variable (CAIV), value engineering (VE), and should-cost estimating. It also defines what is unique about space program costs, compared with other high-technology disciplines, by which one might tailor these initiatives. Finally, this paper presents a proven space program cost-reduction process, utilized by acquisition agencies and by their system contractors, to establish achievable cost goals and then to realize them. The paper concludes with some lessons learned by which program managers might avoid getting into an unaffordable situation in the first place. Cost data in this paper was used for illustrative purposes; actual cost data was drawn from public domain or was sanitized.

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