CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

LEADING EDGE FORUM | CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE

CSC’s Centers of Excellence help clients explore state-of-the-art solutions with minimum up-front investment, leveraging CSC’s top talent to maximize innovation and results. Each center has a designated facility and staff who demonstrate and deliver solutions and evaluate products, methodologies and concepts.

ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, USA

EGG HARBOR, NEW JERSEY, USA

CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA, USA

CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA

Contact:

Brien Millerbmiller5@csc.com

Brad Stein bstein2@csc.com

Jim Hayes jhayes@csc.com

CSC’s Advanced Air Traffic Management Center of Excellence (CoE) supports the air traffic control (ATC) and aviation community with advanced air traffic management (ATM) solutions. The center supports a broad range of activities, with a focus on research and prototyping of new concepts for decision support tools aimed at the FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). This activity can include developing and deploying ATM/ATC systems at designated field research locations.

This year, CSC celebrates 40 years of continuous service to the FAA. The center’s foundation rests upon those extensive years of experience in air traffic systems development and deployment. Our unique capabilities include air traffic flow optimization, time-based flow management, center and multi-center metering, TRACON metering and sequencing and strategic air traffic control systems for use in all phases of flight.

The Center’s affiliated labs in Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio and Virginia demonstrate CSC’s capabilities as an ATM systems integrator and as a systems and applications developer. The CoE also provides thought leadership around moving ATC, ATM and FAA administrative systems into the cloud, taking advantage of big data where possible and reducing stove pipe systems through broad based technology initiatives.

The Center supports innovation in the development and validation of ATM-related technologies and best practices, facilitates the exchange of this expertise within CSC via C3 and other corporate tools and provides a forum for both internal and customer interaction on productization of ATC/ATM needs.

The Center sponsors select technical activities, participation in IR&D efforts, authors white and formal papers and has produced prototypes in support of such activities. The CoE takes a leading participatory role in key aviation committees and industry organizations, attending and participating in FAA and NASA sponsored forums such as interagency Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO), The Advisory Committee on Aviation Standards (RTCA), The Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA), the Department of Commerce Aviation Summit, and the Friends and Partners for Aviation Weather (FPAW).

The AATM Center of Excellence also maintains key relationships with the ATC/ATM R&D community including NASA Ames/NTX, and Langley Research Centers, as well as acting as a key conduit for the FAA SE2020 Program as CSC is on both the ITT and Metron teams.

ADVANCED AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

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ADVANCED AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Capabilities• Center-run NexSimTM ATC simulation suite providing Air Traffic

Controller interactions from all three ATC domains (tower, terminal and en route)

• Center-run research TMA hosting Linux TMA, PDRC-IADS and RNP modifications with the ability to link to NexSimTM.

• Various assessment tools (application, custom, excel, matlab) for the recording and analysis of flight planning and airspace data

• Able to demonstrate key fielded technologies: NexSim, Research TMA, TFMM, ERIDS, DSP

Activities• Studies, prototypes and simulates advanced trajectory-based operations

concepts, including Terminal Metering involving RNP aircraft and the use of mobile simulation platforms for more effective study of specific airspace operations

• Investigation of FAA desired monetized synthetic metrics derived from the FAA’s Traffic Flow Management, TMA and other systems

• Key future TFMS-based concepts that are critical elements of the NextGen road map such as strategic flow management planning (several hours in advance) for near-real-time operations

• Concepts for air traffic flow management applications and decision tools, such as symbolic representation of time based control information

• Concepts for the use of cloud and virtualization technologies for air traffic tools

• Time-based flow management applications and advanced concept design such as PDRC, Interaction between Terminal and Enroute Metering programs, and integration of TMA and DSP

• Mobility enhancements to provide flight planning capabilities on mobile devices

RESOURCESCenter employees are active participants in the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) and the interagency Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO), regularly providing papers and conference briefings to ATCA and JPDO. Center specialists also actively participate in special committees of RTCA, the industry wide standards organization for ATC.

Center employees support special committees and task forces of several other ATM industry organizations, by developing, reviewing and assessing new R&D concepts and systems development strategies. They also work closely with the R&D programs of several colleges/universities. Advanced Traffic Flow Displays

Production Data

Archive Post-ops

Data

POET

FSM

NTML

Oracle Adapter

Adapter

Oracle Archive

mgr

XML JMS

Rules engine

Process engine

App server

Java

CSC’s Traffic Flow Management System SOA Architecture

NexSim Air Traffic Control simulator