C-Band Airport Surface Communications System Standards Development: Phase I Final Report

This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Contractor Report summarizes and documents the work performed to develop system standards for the proposed C-band (5091- to 5150 MHz1) airport surface communications system. This report documents the work done in Phase I. It was delivered to NASA on December 19, 2009, under the fiscal year 2009 project-level agreement. This work was completed under the NASA Aerospace Communication Systems Technical Support (ACSTS) contract, based on direction provided by the Federal Aviation Administration project-level agreement (PLA FY09_G1M.02-02v1) for “New ATM Requirements—Future Communications” as a follow-on to the FAA/EUROCONTROL (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation) Cooperative Research Agreement (Action Plan 17 (AP−17)), commonly referred to as the Future Communications Study.