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Donna G. Warren

Donna Warren worked for the Federal Aviation Administration for 40 years.  She spent the latter 30 years working as one of the Agency’s leading experts on aviation environmental issues.  Upon her retirement from the Agency in 2015 she was the Manager of the Environmental Policy Team in the Air Traffic Organization's (ATO) Mission Support Services.  In that role she was responsible for developing and maintaining ATO's environmental policy and environmental guidance on all matters related to airspace and air traffic procedural changes.

Also while in the ATO, Donna served as the Environmental Tools Program Manager, leading the development of ATO's Noise Integrate Routing System (NIRS), the associated NIRS Screening Tool (NST), the new Aviation Environmental Screening Tool (AEST), and the TARGETS Environmental Plug-in.  These tools served as FAA's standard for assessing and evaluating environmental impacts associated with air traffic procedural and airspace design actions.  As Environmental Policy Manager, Donna led the environmental review for the first 11 Metroplex Program locations.  This program is examining options for the optimization of airspace and procedures in major metroplex areas including Washington, DC; Houston, TX, North Texas, Northern and Southern California, among others.

Donna also represented the ATO and the Agency on numerous internal/external, domestic/international working groups including the UC Davis Noise and Air Quality Symposium Program Committee and the Civil Air Navigation Service Organization (CANSO).  She was also instrumental in the streamlining of ATO's environmental processes through her NAV Lean program participation.

 

Additional policy involvement and contributions

 

Environmental Policy Development and Oversight

Environmental Reviews

[http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/environmental_issues/ared_documentation/#Airspace_Redesign_Project_Environmental_Documentation]

  • Airspace Redesign

    • Las Vegas Area Optimization of Airspace and Procedures Environmental Assessment

    • Houston Area Air Traffic System Environmental Assessment

  • Performance Based Navigation (PBN) [https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/procedures/pbn_implementation_plan/]

    • Boston Logan Runway 33 RNAV SID Environmental Assessment

    • Chicago-Midway Environmental Assessment

    • Denver

    • Greener Skies Over Seattle

Unmanned Aircraft Test Sight Program Selection Team

[http://www.faa.gov/uas/legislative_programs/test_sites/]

Contract Management and Oversight

  • Development of Air Traffic Noise and Environmental Analysis Tools (NIRS/NST/AEST/TARGETS Plug-in)

  • Metroplex Environmental Reviews –

  • Airspace Redesign and PBN Environmental Reviews

  • Crown Consulting – Provided advice, counsel, and subcontracting support in preparation of the proposal for the FAA’s PEARS II (Policy Engineering, Analysis, and Research Support) contract.

  • Metron Aviation – Provided advice, counsel, and subcontracting support in preparation of the proposal for the DOT’s TPMMA (Transportation Planning, Measurement, Modeling, and Assessment) contract.  Serve as a subcontractor on the TPMMA contract (DTRT5617D30004).  Provided advice, counsel, and subcontracting support in preparation of the proposal for the Transportation Research Board, Airport Cooperative Research Program study, Evaluating the Use of Spatially Precise Diurnal Population Data in Aviation Noise Studies (ACRP 02-84).  Serve as a subcontractor on the ACRP 02-84 project.