System Assessment & Validation for Emergency Responders

1. System Assessment & Validation for Emergency Responders Statement of Problem: Emergency response equipment is being purchased at an increasing rate by state and local emergency responders. Although the equipment is tested by the manufacturer, the overall safety, quality, reliability and maintainability of the equipment in field environments may be significantly different. • Objectives: • Initiate a Testing & Evaluation (T&E) program to test and evaluate COTS emergency response equipment, as selected by ODP • Utilize TEEX & TEES existing facilities, expertise, subject matter experts (SME’s), etc. • Provide “Comparative Evaluation Reports” to emergency responders, manufacturers, NIST, etc. Day-to-Day Management Team / Assets: • Cost & Schedule: • $1.5M, 9 mo. • Prepare for follow-on funding and tasks • Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES): • Labs, T&E expertise, etc. • Texas Center for Applied Technology (TCAT) • Task 1: • Personnel Locator Equipment • Decontamination Equipment and Methods • Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) • Texas Transportation Institute (TTI): • Operational testing expertise • Test Engineers, Protocols, Metrics, QA/QC • Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX): • National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (NERRTC) • Disaster City (full-scale urban disaster simulation & training facility) • Texas Task Force I (Urban Search & Rescue response team) • Brayton Fire Training Field (largest live-fueled training facility) • Riverside Campus (unexploded ordnance courses, identification & handling of explosives, etc.) • Task 2: • Database Management System for Providing Feedback to Emergency Responder Community: “Comparative Evaluation Reports” Interim “Consumer Reports” Testing & Evaluation of Emergency Response Equipment

2. Academic Center for Aging Aircraft (ACAA) OBJECTIVE: Establish, test, evaluate, demonstrate, and implement improved and cost-effective technologies in Corrosion Prevention and Control, Nondestructive Evaluation, Prognostics, and Diagnostics Tools, Structural and Mechanical Systems, Reliability, Integrity and Repair, Wiring and Avionics, Systems Engineering Decision Tools, Information Technology and Interactive Databases, and Maintenance Process Modeling and Cost Analysis. JCAA Defines Potential Projects Direction & Focus Service Program Managers Service Tasks • CUSTOMER BENEFITS: • Advanced development of university research for aging aircraft • Knowledge management of aging aircraft projects within universities • Technology brokering of JCAA university projects, avoid duplication • Identification of of future research investments for technology transfer Other Universities Core Academic Universities GTRI, TEES, UDRI * JCAA = Joint Council on Aging Aircraft • TECHNICAL APPROACH: • Form a TEES, UDRI, and GTRI partnership as core universities systems to provide program management and structure to the ACAA • Develop a network of ad hoc teams/ partnerships with other universities for long term efforts of interest in aging aircraft • Develop knowledge creation tools to data-mine “basic and applied” university research and researchers for project teams, provide research status of projects, and update technology readiness levels FUNDING PROFILE: TYPE FY02 FY03 FYO4 FYO5 FY06 FY07 USAF $45K$125K Congressional $4,200K $4,200K $6,000K $8,000K • DELIVERABLES: • ACAA Business Plan • Identification and Application of On-board Corrosion Sensors • Monthly and Final Reports, Project Management Plan • TEAM: • TCAT Program Manager– Dr. John Ayala, ACAA Executive Agent • TAMUS – IE/ME/AE Departments and AVSI • UDRI – Dr. Michael McCabe, Research Institute Director • GTRI – Mr. Gary O’Neill, Logistics Director • TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: • Advanced Development and Manufacturing Technology Program • Manufacturing Technical Assistance Procurement Program • Small Business Technology Transfer Center • DoD Depots and Commercial Industry San Antonio Operations Office: Aircraft Sustainability Lab Division