Kristen C. Beverly, Ph.D.

Managing Director, Air Traffic Management
Contact Information
202.580.7483
beverlyk@cna.org
Kristen C. Beverly, Ph.D. is the program manager for several projects supporting the Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) Directorate in the Federal Aviation Administration including Enterprise Architecture, Information Architecture/AIXM, Business and Strategic Planning, Acquisition Management, and Global AIM with oversight of ten staff. Beverly has provided extensive direct support in these areas to the FAA Program Management Office, Mission Support Services, and NextGen NAS Lifecycle Planning business units. He is currently providing strategic planning for the FAA PMO and the AIM Directorate and acquisition management support for the AIM Modernization Program concentrating on the Segment 2 Acquisition package. He has provided systems engineering support and technical leadership for the NextGen Common Status and Structure Data (CSSD) project, On Demand NAS Portfolio, AIM service level enterprise architecture and NAS Requirements development, evaluation, and validation.

Beverly has developed strategic plans, scoping documents, program plans, work breakdown structures, and concepts of operation for aeronautical information enterprise services and other FAA objectives to support AIM and NextGen initiatives. Beverly has provided mission analysis and has been involved in pre-implementation activities for CSSD including the development of resource planning data (RPDs), program level agreements (PLAs), service level agreements (SLAs), mission statements, updates to Capital Investment Plan (CIP) white sheets, AIM business goals, roadmaps, and other planning, briefing, and funding documents. He is currently providing acquisition and program management support, cross-domain coordination and aeronautical information service integration for several AIM efforts relating to the AIM Modernization Program, AIM related NextGen Portfolios, and System Wide Information Management (SWIM) segment 1, 1+, and 2 activities. These efforts support the acquisition management system lifecycle from mission analysis to in-service management through the development of an acquisition strategy, detailed planning and analysis, oversight for development of enterprise architecture artifacts, costs and benefits, requirements, prototypes, risks, and implementation/transition for improving aeronautical information flow and modernized AIM automation. Ultimately, this work supports the business case for AIM acquisition and implementation efforts and modernization baselines as well as NextGen portfolio objectives as part of the FAA’s strategic plan.

Beverly has provided analytical support for data architecture, evaluation of Aeronautical Information eXchange Model (AIXM) 5.1 changes and extensions to the core model, services based system design and functional requirements, evolution of the Open Geospatial Consortium web service standards, SWIM standards and compliance, and functional decomposition of FAA systems and operations. Beverly has been a key supporting member of the ON Demand NAS portfolio team. He has provided support for the technical review board, and has been instrumental in discussion with various FAA groups on SWIM compliance and NextGen objectives including playing a role in the NextGen Implementation Plan working groups on behalf of AIM. Beverly identified and analyzed the requirements for airport data exchange between Airports GIS and other existing FAA Data Management Platforms, notably, the National Airspace System Resource (NASR), and published a NASR Population Automation Requirements document. Beverly assisted in the review of advisory circular drafts and provided feedback on compliance and gaps with existing policy for airport survey information. Beverly assisted with facility training and field roll-out support for Minimum Vectoring Altitude (MVA) and Minimum IFR Altitude (MIA) Chart creation and airspace analysis using the Sector Design and Analysis Tool (SDAT). Beverly also assisted in the development of numerous MIA/MVA charts in direct interactions with airspace and procedures personnel at facilities.

Education
  • Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2003
  • B.S. Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998
Selected Publications and Reports
  • K. C. Beverly, "Support Document for Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) Common Status and Structure Data "To-Be" High-Level Operational Concept (OV-1 Narrative)," IPR 13447, 2009.
  • K. C. Beverly, "Airport Surveying: System Integration (Phase II) - Requirements, Airports GIS to NAS/R Population Automation," IPR 13069, 2009.
  • R. Beckman, K. C. Beverly, A. Boukai, et al, “Spiers Memorial Lecture - Molecular mechanics and molecular electronics” Faraday Discussions, 2006, 131, 9.
  • F. Remacle, K. C. Beverly, J. R. Heath, R. D. Levine, “Gating the Conductivity of Arrays of Metallic Quantum Dots,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 107, 13892.
  • F. Remacle, K. C. Beverly, J. R. Heath, R. D. Levine, “Conductivity of 2-D Ag quantum dot arrays: Computational study of the role of size and packing disorder at low temperatures,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2002, 106, 4116.
  • K. C. Beverly, J. L. Sample, J. F. Sampaio, F. Remacle, J. R. Heath, R. D. Levine, “Quantum Dot Artificial Solids: Understanding the Static and Dynamic Role of Size and Packing Disorder,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2002, 99, 6456.
  • J. L. Sample, K. C. Beverly, P. R. Chaudhari, F. Remacle, J. R. Heath, R. D. Levine, “Imaging Transport Disorder in Conducting Arrays of Metallic Quantum Dots: An Experimental and Computational Study,” Advanced Materials, 2002, 14 (2), 124.

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