From: Dr. William A Thedford
     System Resources Corporation
     128 Wheeler Road
     Burlington, MA 01803
     Phone: (781)270-9228 ext. 224
     e-mail: William.Thedford@srcorp.com
     Subject: Aviation Research and Development Programs
     
     Dear Dr. Soraci,
     
     I am writing to request your assistance in gathering information about 
     aviation research and development programs. Under a NASA contract, we 
     are assembling as much "Who's doing what" as possible.
     
     Sources of this data include government, industry, academia, Federally 
     Funded Research and Development Companies and Eurocontrol.  The final 
     product will be delivered to NASA later this year with an assessment 
     of what additional R&D programs are needed to satisfy the system 
     requirements derived from the "Air Traffic Services Concept of 
     Operations for the National Airspace System in 2005," Federal Aviation 
     Administration, September 30, 1997.
     
     With your assistance we can include your programs in the database 
     which is intended to identify those projects which address any of the 
     derived requirements mentioned above.  Please provide us any 
     information on your R&D efforts that you are willing to have in the 
     public domain by late September so we can include it in the analysis.  
     You will have the opportunity to review and comment on the use we have 
     made of the material you provide before the study is finalized.  The 
     complete results of the analysis will be publicly available in the 
     relatively near future.
     
     We are specifically soliciting information regarding R&D programs that 
     you have currently underway or have planned for the future. We are able 
     to accept the information in most any form but we prefer an electronic 
     format like Word, Excel, text, or .pdf.  The information fields that 
     would be most useful are
     Program Name and Reference (a traceable identifier) 
     Contact Information (name, address, phone, e-mail) 
     Sponsor
     Abstract (the intent of the work)
     Benefits and Expected Results
     Schedule
     
     Please feel free to provide any additional information that you think 
     helpful. Our first round of analysis is planned to start in mid 
     September so we will be grateful for you assistance in helping us to 
     meet this abbreviated schedule.
     
     Program summaries may be e-mailed or sent on a zip or floppy disk by 
     mail.
     If there are any questions or comments, please contact me.
     
     Thank you for your consideration and attention to this request.  
     Again, your participation will be appreciated.
     
     Regards,
     William A. Thedford, Ph.D.
     Advanced Technologies Division