RoVolus LLC
(ROH - voh - lus)
is a small disadvantaged business (woman and minority owned) that specializes in aviation management consulting and environmental engineering. We have supported airport sponsors, airlines, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) since 2015 with their most challenging sustainability and environmental concerns.
CAPABILITY STATEMENT
RoVolus serves as a developer of the FAA’s Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT), FAA’s regulatory model for air quality and aircraft noise emissions at civilian airports. As developers, RoVolus personnel are expert users of the tool and are familiar with its advanced features, making us faster and more efficient users of AEDT. To facilitate the use of AEDT, as well as other noise models requiring flight track data manipulation, RoVolus has developed RoTrack--a proprietary track data preparation and visualization software solution containing unique features. RoTrack allows RoVolus consultants to concisely perform noise screening and modeling tasks as well as rapid preparation of air quality analyses that combine aviation and non-aviation sources.

Clients benefit because AEDT inputs, including radar track data, representative backbones, and receptor sets, can be efficiently created, analyzed, edited, and exported using RoTrack. The use of RoTrack can streamline data development for air quality and noise modeling to support multiple levels of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analyses, ranging from simple noise screenings supporting categorical exclusion (CATEX) determinations to the more rigorous analysis required to support the preparation of Environmental Assessments (EA) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS). The use of RoTrack allows RoVolus consultants to quickly manipulate large input data sets and efficiently generate optimized technical solutions that bring the maximum amount of value to clients.
RoVolus and its consultants are leaders in preparing NEPA documents for the FAA. RoVolus consultants are very experienced working on challenging NEPA reviews, many which involve extensive coordination with elected officials and government stakeholders. As there is a frequent threat of litigation on many NEPA airport and airspace projects, RoVolus consultants regularly work closely with FAA counsel to ensure legal sufficiency of all work products.
RoVolus also provides management consulting services to airport sponsors to address some of the most intractable challenges that constrain organizational decision-making. Via close collaboration with airport clients and a focus on precision, RoVolus has implemented sustainability management systems and environmental projects that have been recognized with six Airports Council International (ACI) Environmental Achievement Awards. RoVolus maintains a focus on providing services that enable often-challenging, regulatory framework.
RoVolus attributes our success in assisting airport sponsors obtain environmental grants for airports to our company-wide focus on how airports are managed, how they operate, and how they are financed. Additionally, RoVolus personnel have spent countless hours establishing relationships with FAA’s Airports Office at headquarters and at regional and district offices throughout the United States. These longstanding relationships have allowed us to fully understand FAA’s numerous funding requirements, scheduling milestones, and procurement criteria. Our grant funding assistance includes experience with the following programs: FAA's Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) Program, FAA's Energy Efficiency of Airport Power Sources ("Section 512") Program, FAA's Zero Emissions Airport Vehicle (ZEV) and Infrastructure Pilot Program, and EPA's Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) Clean Diesel Program.
The Clean Air Act and subsequent legislation, as well as FAA’s Airport Climate Challenge encourage airport sponsors to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emission footprints and accelerate the clean energy transition. Airport sponsors can take advantage of several FAA funding programs to meet this goal, including grants for low- or zero-emissions vehicles, renewable energy production, energy assessments and other efforts. Identification and prioritization of energy reduction opportunities require: (1) effective evaluations by technical, regulatory, and market experts, and (2) knowledge and experience with the full range of implementation strategies and funding sources. RoVolus operates independently of energy solution providers, thereby allowing us to prioritize cost-effective improvements and evaluate the alignment with an airport sponsor’s core values. RoVolus has been at the forefront of assisting airport sponsors with decarbonization initiatives by achieving Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA). ACA was developed by ACI with the aim of encouraging and enabling airport sponsors to implement best practices in carbon management and achieve emissions reductions.

RoVolus has assembled a collection of highly experienced aviation experts who have managed some of the nation’s most sensitive airport environmental projects over the past 40+ years. RoVolus is currently managing a $51 million FAA Policy, Engineering, Analysis and Research Support II (PEARS II) contract and is performing tasks that support FAA’s development of computational tools and the establishment of national aviation policies.
SERVICES, LICENSES, AND CERTIFICATIONS
Services
- FAA Regulatory and Policy Support
- Air Quality and Aircraft Noise
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Grant Funding
- Energy
Licenses
Texas Board of Professional Engineers License F-19809
Minority and Women-owned Business Certifications
- U.S. Small Business Administration: EDWOSB, HABE, MBE, SDB, WBE, WOSB, 8(a)
- State of Alabama: DBE
- State of Arizona: DBE
- State of California Unified Certification Program: DBE
- State of Georgia: DBE
- State of Maryland: DBE, SBE
- State of New Hampshire: DBE
- State of North Carolina: DBE
- State of Oregon: ACDBE, DBE, MBE, WBE
- State of Pennsylvania: ACDBE
- State of South Carolina: DBE
- State of Tennessee: ACDBE
- State of West Virginia: ACDBE, DBE
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: DBE, MBE, WBE
- North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency: ACDBE, MBE, SBE, WBE
- City of Houston: MBE, WBE

