LAAS Government/Industry Partnership

Jim Miller and William Cotton, Daryl McCall, Tim Murphy, John Foggia and Joe Santos

Abstract:	The FAA initiated a Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) Government Industry Partnership (GIP) program in 1998 to develop and deploy Differential GPS landing systems. Emergence of the GIP for LAAS provides the necessary impetus for achieving early public-use Category I through Category III Differential GPS (DGPS) precision approach, and other key terminal area enhancements such as precision departure and surface navigation applications. The FAA has signed agreements with two consortiums led by Honeywell and Raytheon to execute the program. The FAA’s innovative use of Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to implement this unique LAAS program has generated significant movement throughout an otherwise cautiously proceeding industry. To this end, two GIP partners, Chicago O’Hare International Airport and United Airlines, are now collaborating to gain implementation experience and to secure specific new operational benefits. The teaming of the world’s busiest airport and the world’s largest airline in the GIP is one example of increased industry interest and movement towards acquiring the improvements of LAAS. This paper outlines the Honeywell GIP team program participants, objectives and status. The paper investigates the benefits of LAAS technology to airlines and airports both domestically and abroad, and identifies the initial GIP deployment schedule. Finally, the paper investigates the advantages of flexible LAAS-based procedures over the constraints of existing ILS equipment at airports today.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 12th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1999) September 14 - 17, 1999 Nashville, TN
Pages:	641 - 650
Cite this article:	Miller, Jim, Cotton, William, McCall, Daryl, Murphy, Tim, Foggia, John, Santos, Joe, "LAAS Government/Industry Partnership," Proceedings of the 12th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1999), Nashville, TN, September 1999, pp. 641-650.
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