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Mr. David McNally, Associate Principal Investigator for Separation Assurance, Next Generation Air Transportation System Air Traffic Management - Airspace Project
Concept and Laboratory Analysis of Trajectory-Based Automation for Separation Assurance in the National Airspace System
Image left: Mr. David McNally, Associate Principal Investigator
David McNally is the Associate Principal Investigator for the separation
assurance elements in the agency research towards a Next Generation Air
Transportation System.
McNally is a principal investigator in Air Traffic Management at Ames
Research Center. He provides overall technical and project leadership
for the development and validation of en route ATM automation
technology. Through a series of laboratory tool developments,
human-in-the-loop simulations, and operational field evaluations of ever
increasing complexity and capability, McNally transformed the conflict
probe concept into the Conflict Probe, Trial Planner, and Direct-To
tools for en route air traffic controllers. He led the transformation of
the agency’s Center/TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control) Automation
System from an arrival management tool to a comprehensive ATM automation
system for en route and transition airspace. Recently, McNally was the
lead author for the Separation Assurance section of the agency proposal
defining research to achieve a substantial increase in capacity and
efficiency with safety in the National Airspace System.
Prior to his work in air traffic management, McNally was the group
leader on a project to investigate the use of the Differential Global
Positioning System (GPS) for aircraft precision landing guidance. He
was responsible for joint NASA/Department of Defense/FAA prototype
development and flight test evaluation of a Differential GPS/Inertial
Navigation System Category III precision landing guidance system on a
NASA test aircraft, and the NASA technical lead for joint
FAA/Stanford/Industry/NASA flight evaluations of Differential GPS
precision landing guidance on a United Airlines 737 and an E-Systems
business jet.
McNally holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelors
degree in Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineering, both from the University
of California at Davis. McNally began his career at NASA in 1984 and
has conducted research in air traffic management since 1995. He is the
principal author or co-author of 27 technical publications in air
traffic management and GPS-based precision landing guidance.
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