Continuing the Campaign for Capacity: Evolving the FAA Operational Evolution Plan―FAA's Keystone to Capacity

摘要

For the past several years the FAA has rolled out semi-annual updates of the Operational Evolution Plan (OEP) for review by aviation community leaders at OEP Industry Days. This past February was the first such meeting since the realignment of the OEP with the FAA's year-old Air Traffic Organization (ATO). Executives and senior managers of RTCA member organizations and the FAA recently met at MITRE Center for Advanced Aviation System Development in McLean for OEP Industry Day. Their objectives were to renew dialogue on the plan; review the realignment of the OEP that now reflects the new ATO; describe the linkage to the FAA Flight Plan and the Next Generation Air Transportation System Integrated Plan coordinated by the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO); review the initiatives and changes in the OEP scheduled for this year; and begin to identify areas that need further discussion by RTCA committees. Since attendance at the Industry Day meeting was limited to approximately 250, we offer ATCA Journal readers a review of the reinvigorated OEP.