RTCA SC202 Overview

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RTCA SC-202 Overview

• Special Committee SC-202 Portable Electronic
  Devices
• Presented by Jeff Schiffer, Intel Labs

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RTCA SC-202 Overview

• RTCA Background
• Committee Makeup and Membership
• Approach and Focus of Committee
• SC-202 Working Groups
• Conclusion

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RTCA

• RTCA, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit
  corporation
• Develops consensus-based recommendations
  regarding aviation system issues
• Functions as a Federal Advisory Committee
• Recommendations are used by the Federal Aviation
  Administration as the basis for policy, program,
  and regulatory decisions
• Used by private sector as the basis for
  development, investment and other business
  decisions

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RTCA

• Organized in 1935 as the Radio Technical
  Commission for Aeronautics
• Today includes roughly 250 government, industry
  and academic organizations from the United States
  and around the world
• Member organizations from aviation community,
  including
• government organizations,
• airlines,
• airspace user and airport associations,
• labor unions,
• aviation service and equipment suppliers

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SC-202 Makeup

• Committee Established March 20th 2003
• FAA request for committee to develop guidelines
  for PEDs
• Co-Chairman
• David Carson, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
• Bill Winfrey, Delta Air Lines
• Designated Federal Official
• Dave Correia, FAA, AFS-350
• RTCA Program Director
• Harold Moses
• Program Schedule
• First meeting in May 2003
• Phase I - Near-Term PED Technology Assessment
  Jan 2004  
• Phase II - Longer-Term Technology Assessment Oct
  2005

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Approach

• SC-202 guidance is contained in a Terms of
  Reference (TOR) document
• What aspects to consider
• Coordination with other industry groups
• Users of SC-202 guidelines documentation
• Schedule
• Schedule for two phases of work
• Phase 1 considers Near-Term (currently available)
  PED Technology
• Phase 2 will address Longer-Term PED Technology
  Assessment

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Phase 1 Focus

• Currently existing PED technologies
• Specifically current generation
• Cellular telephones
• Current technology wireless PDAs, and
• Devices with IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, and
  Bluetooth wireless network capabilities

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Phase 2 Focus

• Emerging PED technologies
• Ultra-wideband devices, or
• Pico-cells for telephone use on board aircraft
• Phase 2 work will start after, and build on,
  Phase 1

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SC202 Working Groups

• Group 1 - PEDs characterization, test,
  evaluationLeader Jeff Schiffer (Intel
  Corporation)
• Group 2 - Aircraft test and analysis Leader
  Kent Horton (Delta Air Lines)
• Group 3 - Aircraft systems susceptibility
  Leader Doug Hughes (Alion Science Technology)
  
• Group 4 - Risk Assessment, Practical application,
  and final documentation Leader
  Steve Rines (Connexion by Boeing)

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Conclusion

• Final Plenary session of SC-202 for Phase 1 work
  is in January
• Recommendation for publishing Phase 1 guidelines
  at that time
• Start of Phase 2 will be immediately after
  release of the Phase 1 documentation
• Phase 2 guidelines complete by October 2005

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Backup
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Working Group 1 Tasks

• Define normal and fault modes of operation for
  each PED class identified in the Phase 1
  candidate list
• Evaluate each PED class to determine the worst
  case condition or conditions
• PED class characteristics will be integrated into
  an operational scenario to evaluate potential for
  harmful interference to critical aircraft
  systems. 

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Working Group 2 Tasks

• Verify guidance in ED118 is sufficient to
  quantify immunity levels of DO-160D qualified
  aircraft.
• Evaluate coupling mechanisms and interference
  paths defined in ED118 for applicability to
  other-than DO-160D qualified aircraft.
• Determine if sufficient guidance exists in
  existing documentation to establish common
  coupling mechanisms and interference paths for
  non-intentional transmitters on all three classes
  of aircraft susceptibility.

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Working Group 3 Tasks

• Define a process for determining the
  susceptibility level of an aircraft and the
  susceptibility levels of associated aircraft
  systems
• Define classes of aircraft susceptibility for use
  in PED evaluation. 
• Review three classes tentatively identified by
  WG4
• Non-HIRF certified, pre-1987 aircraft
• post-1987 partial-HIRF qualified, and
• post 1997 HIRF qualified aircraft

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Working Group 4 Tasks

• Coordinate with all SC-202 working groups
• Establish additional analysis, aircraft
  evaluation and/or PEDs research
• Define process to regulate use of PEDs on
  aircraft that can be mapped directly to assessed
  risks
• If warranted, define standardized process for
  qualification or verification of aircraft
  configurations for immunity to PEDs technologies
  
• Coordinate PEDs and air transport industry
  reviews of the recommended qualification,
  regulation and enforcement processes

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Working Group 4 Tasks

• Produce an outline report document to be
  circulated to all WGs
• Work closely with all SC-202 working groups to
  coordinate writing and compilation of the Phase 1
  RTCA guidelines document. 
• Refine the evaluation process to address emerging
  PEDs technologies. 
• The same process will then be used to accomplish
  SC-202 Phase 2

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SC202 Membership Representation

• Examples of representation from several
  membership categories
• Airframe Manufacturers Airbus, Boeing,
  Bombardier
• Regulators FAA, US-DOT, Transport Canada
• Other Industry Working Groups ARINC, ATA, RTCA
  SC-159, Consumer Electronics Association, EUROCAE
  WG-58
• Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Qualcomm,
  Verizon, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Intel,
  Panasonic
• Airlines AAL, DAL, DLH, JAL, CAL, UPS, FDX,
  UAL, NWA, USA, SWA
• Avionics Manufacturers Honeywell, Rockwell,
  Matsushita, Northrup Grumman, SITA, Teledyne,
  AirCell, Inc., General Dynamics, Connexion by
  Boeing
• Universities and Research Organizations NASA, U
  of Oklahoma, Carnegie Mellon, Alion Science
  Technology, MITRE, Altobridge, CAVOK
  International
• Air Line Pilots Association
• Association of Flight Attendants
• The list is not exhaustive, but intended to show
  the breadth of membership representation