Developing a Digital Twin of the National Airspace System: The Opportunities and Challenges
Developing a Digital Twin of the National Airspace System: The Opportunities and Challenges
Developing a Digital Twin of the National Airspace System: The Opportunities and Challenges
Kimberly Gill
Division Manager, National Airspace System (NAS) Enterprise Architecture (EA) & Requirements Services Division (ANG-B1), FAA
Abstract:
A Digital Twin of the National Airspace System (NAS) promises transformative benefits for the FAA and its stakeholders. By creating a virtual replica of the NAS, the FAA can make more informed investment decisions, lower equipment maintenance costs, and accelerate technology and capability deployments. The challenges include Technical Integration, Data Management and Quality, Organizational and Cultural Alignment, Operational Feedback, Performance Measurement and Decision Making.
Biography:
Kimberly Gill is currently the Division Manager for the National Airspace System (NAS) Enterprise Architecture (EA) & Requirements Services Division (ANG-B1) at FAA Headquarters in Washington DC. Kimberly is a digital engineering advocate pursuing a Digital Twin Concept for the NAS. Her division has three branches providing Enterprise SE Services across FAA organizations in the areas of Requirements, Enterprise Architecture Modeling, Information/Data Management, Systems Engineering and Acquisition Leadership. These branches are geographically dispersed across locations in DC, the FAA Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ, and the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. Among other endeavors, her division maintains the FAA’s NAS Enterprise Architecture models and Requirements Documents to describe the existing and future states of the National Airspace System NAS, the FAA Systems Engineering Manual (SEM) and all Systems Engineering Artifacts required for NAS Investments. She also leads the Systems Engineering Forum and the Requirements and Enterprise Architecture Analysis Hub (REAACH) which provides both information sharing and networking opportunities for Systems Engineers and other disciplines across the FAA.
Ms. Gill, has over 30 years of systems engineering experience. She started at the FAA testing and fielding Air Traffic Control radar equipment at over 400 locations across the country. She then took on the roles of program manager and systems engineering manager for programs replacing technologically obsolete surveillance and weather equipment with budgets exceeding $1B.
Prior to joining the FAA, Ms. Gill worked supporting the Office of Naval Intelligence, Department of Interior and Martin Marietta.
Ms. Gill is an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP). She served as the INCOSE Corporate Advisory Board member for the FAA and is a member of the INCOSE Technical Leadership Institute. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland and an M.S. in Technical Management, specializing in Program Management & Systems Engineering, from Johns Hopkins University.
Kimberly was born and raised in Baltimore County, but has lived in Rockville, MD most of her professional life.