15th International Flight Inspection Symposium
The 15th IFIS is being co-hosted by the Gardner Tanenbaum Group (GTG) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The theme for this year's symposium is "Shaping Aerospace Flight Inspection for the Future." Navigation in today's airspace is evolving into satellite-based navigation, performance-based flight procedures, and fully integrated cockpits. With advancements come challenges: isolating radio frequency interference, ensuring navigation database integrity, developing meaningful flight inspection criteria, etc. Through collaboration and cooperation, the flight inspection community will meet these challenges head on and help lead the way into tomorrow's airspace system. This event will showcase emerging technologies utilized by the aerospace industry and allow organizations the opportunity to display their products and services.
Gardner Tanenbaum Group, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK is a unique combination of inter-related companies engaging in many aspects of the commercial real estate industry, especially development, construction, construction management and industrial property management. GTG led by its qualified, hands-on management team headed by Justin C. Gardner and Richard I. Tanenbaum, Gardner Tanenbaum Group continues the 50-year tradition of excellence that has spanned three generations in the real estate industry.
GTG has built a strong reputation nationwide for providing value to investors and users through exceptional customer service, financial creativity, industry expertise and uncompromising integrity. The company sets the standard for style, quality and performance in real estate development as evidenced by a few of our clients including Cox Communications, Inalfa, Federal Express Corporation, Northrup Grumman, Henkel, Corporate Express, and ARINC.
GTG built the ARINC hanger close to Will Rogers World Airport and currently under construction is Boeing'sTM new regional office just south of Tinker Air Force Base.
The Federal Aviation Administration's mission includes the provision of a safe and efficient aerospace system and its values emphasize quality, integrity and people. To meet future demands and avoid system gridlock, the FAA is moving away from legacy ground-based technologies to satellite based technology epitomized by "NextGen" technologies. NextGen is a wide ranging transformation of the entire national air transportation system which includes new capabilities and the highly interdependent technologies that support them. Examples of NextGen technologies, which are designed to improve the overall efficiency of the National Airspace System, include the introduction of Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B), System Wide Information management (SWIM) and NextGen Data Communications.
The FAA's Aviation System Standards Program (AVN), headquartered at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, is responsible for ensuring the safety, reliability and accuracy of ground-based and space-based navigation aids throughout the United States National Airspace System and at many locations abroad. AVN is also responsible for the development and maintenance of instrument flight procedures and US aeronautical charting. The service provided by AVN is essential to safety because it not only provides the validation of the data and signals emitted by the navigational aids but AVN also conducts the definitive flight inspection operations that are necessary to analyze, verify and certify the associated data and signals to ensure that the equipment meets its operational parameters.
Important Dates to Remember Before Abstract Submission
Feb 1, 2008: Abstract Acceptance
Mar 1, 2008: Commercial Timeslot Request
May 1, 2008: Papers for Publication
June 8,2008: PowerPoint Presentation
Contact Information:
Mary Waggoner
IFIS Event Coordinator
mwaggonr@ou.edu
405 325 3760
800 203 5494
Fax 405 325 7075
