Personnel

Questions or comments? Please reach us at Airporttech@faa.gov.

Subject Point of Contact Name Title

 

Jim Layton

Branch Manager

 

Patricia Young

Administrative Contact

Pavement Construction, Advanced Materials

Murphy Flynn

Pavement Section Manager; Civil Engineer

Safety, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Jim Patterson

Safety Section Manager

Pavement, Advanced Pavement Design, Concrete Pavement

David Brill, P.E., PhD

Civil Engineer

Pavement, Asphalt Pavement, Field Instrumentation & Testing, National Airport Pavement & Materials Research Center (NAPMRC), Sustainability

Navneet Garg, PhD

Civil Engineer

Pavement, Airport Pavement Roughness, Reflective Cracking, Nondestructive Testing (NDT) Technologies

Richard Ji, P.E., PhD

Civil Engineer

Pavement, Software Program Development & Support

Qingge Jia

Computer Scientist

Pavement, National Airport Pavement  Test Vehicle (NAPTV)

Ryan Rutter

Electronics Engineer

Pavement,  Instrumentation & Sensors

Wilfredo Villafane

Engineering Technician

Pavement, Advanced Pavement Design, Field Instrumentation & Testing

Daniel Offenbacker, P.E., PhD

Civil Engineer

Safety, Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF)

Keith Bagot

Airport Safety Specialist

Safety, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration at Airports (UAS)

Joe Healey

Airport Safety Specialist

Safety, Airport Visual Guidance

Ryan King

General Engineer

Safety, Airfield Paint Markings, Airport Safety Database & Analysis, Airport Visual Guidance, Airport Wildlife Abatement, Airport Wildlife Strike Database, Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Database

Wesley Major, PhD

Airport Research Specialist

Safety, Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Technology (ARFF), Visual Guidance, Airport Vehicle Operations, Airport Visual NAVAIDS, Engineered material arresting system (EMAS), TALPA RCAM

Nick Subbotin

Airport Research Specialist

Safety, Airport Environmental, Noise, Airport Planning & Design, Resiliency, Runway Incursion Mitigation (RIM), Sustainability

Lauren Vitagliano

Airport Research Specialist

Safety, Airport Visual Guidance, EMAS Signs, Autonomous Vehicles

Russ Gorman

General Engineer

Safety, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Garrison Canter

Airport Research Specialist

Safety, Visual Guidance, Solar Lighting

Darian Byrd

Electrical Engineer

Safety, Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF)

Jeremy Casey

Airport Safety Specialist

Safety, Visual Guidance, Autonomous Vehicles

Sean Van Dongen

General Engineer