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Reported | 12/28/2018 12:00 AM |
Project Title | Time Based Flow Management (TBFM)Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) Follow-On Acquisition Market Survey |
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City, State (County) | Washington, DC (District of Columbia County) |
Category(s) | Professional Services |
Sub-Category(s) | Architectural, Engineering |
Contracting Method | Competitive Bids. |
Project Status | Accepting Letters of Interest |
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Plans Available from | Federal Agency |
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Description | The FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) provides the vision and roadmap for modernizing the National Airspace System (NAS) to meet future air traffic demands. The execution of this plan involves the research, development and deployment of new Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems, technologies, and decision support tools to meet these growing demands safely and efficiently. Time Based Flow Management (TBFM) will build upon previous TBFM work packages to deploy existing capabilities to additional locations in the NAS, and provide new capabilities to enable/support the Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Navigational Strategy (NAS) 2016. This Work Package will incrementally improve metering to further advance the use of PBN operations. It will also broaden the deployment of existing enhancements and capabilities that increase throughput and efficiency, particularly during periods of high traffic demand. Existing capabilities include functions such as Integrated Departure/Arrival Capability (IDAC) and Terminal Sequencing & Spacing (TSAS). New candidate capabilities are planned to include Path Stretch, TBFM Dashboard Planning Tool, and Improved TBFM-TFMS Data Integration. Integrated Departure & Arrival Capability (IDAC) provides for the identification of flights requiring TBFM departure scheduling and graphic depictions of available departure slots. IDAC provides situational awareness to ATCTs so that they can select from available departure times, request a release time, and plan their operation to meet these times. This situational awareness will be provided for various TBFM environments, from standard single departure airport departure flows to departures from multiple airports merging over a common departure fix as well as departures merging into an overhead flow. Terminal Sequencing & Spacing (TSAS) extends the scheduling capability into the terminal area. It provides arrival management guidance to TRACON controllers consistent with the schedule that En-Route controllers are striving to attain at arrival meter fixes. To achieve more precise arrival delivery, procedures are joined to approaches to provide a continuous, defined path in the terminal down to the runway threshold. There is wide availability of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approaches with curved paths providing additional efficiency, and controllers will be able to accommodate RNP-capable aircraft along those procedures, in addition to efficiently managing non-RNP capable aircraft, even during busy traffic periods. The FAA anticipates the award of a new follow-on contract for the existing TBFM/Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) contract in 2020. This contract will continue the design, development, testing, implementation, operation and maintenance of the TBFM/TBO system. The TBFM follow-on effort will involve both the upgrading and maintenance of existing software as well as the development and implementation of new enhancements. The contract would include provisions for program management, systems engineering, quality, system design, system development, test, training, implementation, integrated logistics support, and system upgrades. The Government maintains data rights for all software necessary to sustain and enhance TBFM. The scope of the anticipated new contract includes: 1. Sustainment of existing TBFM baseline system to include maintaining current software, adaptation, documentation and addressing newly identified problems. 2. Re-architecture of the system to include porting to a new platform and Client/Server based architecture for information sharing. 3. NextGen enhancements to the system to include design, development, test and implementation of requirements as defined in the TBFM SSD. 4. Engineering Services and Site Support as defined per the SOW, Section C.10. 5. Future changes will support TBFM Technical Refresh, Interval Management (IM), and Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM). |
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