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MEMORANDUM FORTHE RECORD
Event: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Herndon Command CenterType of event: Interview with Robert WilliamsDate: April
5,
2004Special Access Issues: NonePrepared
by:
Geoffrey
BrownTeam Number: 8
Location:
Herndon, Virginia
Participants
- Non-Commission: Brook Lewis, Chief Consul's
Office,
FAA
Participants
- Commission: JohnAzzarello,Miles Kara, Lisa Sullivan,
Geoffrey
Brown
Note:
Please
refer
to the
recorded interview
for
further
details.
Background:
Before
beginning his career with the FAA, Williams was a Weapons Director
(WD)
with
the
U.S.
Air
Force
for six
years.
In
1981
he
began with
the FAA at
SeattleCenter.
He
spent thirteen years there
- ten as an air
traffic
controller,
and
three
as a
traffic
management specialist.
He
came
to
Herndon
in
1994
and
spent eighteen months
as a
traffic
managementspecialist
on the
floor.
In
1996
he was
selected
to
operate
in the
Herndon CARF (Central
Altitude
Reservation Function).
CARF:
TheCARFisdesignedtoprocessandseparate altitude reservations (AltRevs).Primarily,
the
military asks
the FAA for
priority activity
(oftenrefueling
operations
during
overseas
flights
that involve critical timing
and the
need
for
allotted airspace).CARF coordinates these requests with the FAA
facilities,
and with international agencies.CARF operates between 0700 and 2300 hours, seven days a week. Typically it is manned
by two
personnel
on a day
shift,
and two
personnel
on a
swing
shift,
who are all
civilian
FAA
controllers.
The
primary space they reserve
is for
military movement overseas,
and
for
mass military movements. They also handle
"more
unusual" circumstance like the
dropping of
rocket boosters
for a
space shuttle launch. CARF
at
Herndon does
not
coordinate
the
tankers
for
training exercises,
or
other such activity that
is
handled
at the
facility
level.
Air
Traffic
Services Cell:
A
military cell
at
Herndon, whose
office
co-joins
theCARF
office
for the
practicality
of
proximity
for
secure information. Prior
to
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