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4 KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
4 KEY FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Pages 49-56
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and other federal agencies. Because NASA's aeronautics research constitutes a key component of the nation's aviation research enterprise, its safety-related activities warrant consideration within this larger context.
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More generally, the committee observed an emphasis throughout the research programs on safety issues that apply to commercial air transport but relatively little work having direct pertinence to unmanned aircraft or general aviation, even though the former represents a potential vehicle configuration in NextGen and the latter has long accounted for the majority of fatal aviation crashes. By not having a defensible, analytically based process for prioritizing its safety research, ARMD could not justify, in a convincing manner, much of the content of its research programs.
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Finding 3: Too few resources are devoted to sustaining and acquiring critical safety research capa bilities. Continued emphasis on preserving existing research expertise and assets risks degradation of ARMD's core safety research strengths and the prolonged neglect of competencies required to address new and emerging safety issues.
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Are the Programs Properly Coordinated with the Safety Research Programs of FAA and Other Relevant Federal Agencies? At the agency level, NASA, FAA, and other federal agencies collaborate in developing the National Plan, which lays out the fundamental safety challenges that are a priority for the entire federal civil aviation research enterprise.
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With a few exceptions, however, ARMD's safety research programs were presented to the committee as discrete activities of the Aviation Safety Program, the Fundamental Aeronautics Program, and the Airspace Systems Program. yet in reviewing each of these research programs, it proved difficult to identify the full array of safety-related research in the Fundamental Aeronautics Program and the Airspace Systems Program.
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should adopt a more fully informed, empirical, and documented process for identifying and prioritizing safety research needs for use in guiding its aeronautics research and development programming and investments in research expertise and capacity. A central
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Recommendation 3: The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's safety-related research activities should be subject to regular reviews by outside experts from the Federal Aviation Administration and other government agencies, industry, independent research institutes, and universities. These reviews, which will help in ensuring continued safety relevance, quality, implementation challenges, and successful transitioning, should be undertaken during the formative stages of the research, interim phases, and as the work is being completed.
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