Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine has recently published a very interesting article with the title “Integration Nightmares”. It is about the problems planners and engineers are facing in integrating the battlefield “system of systems”. As the author reports, high level military planners do not like to pay to solve complexity… Researchers have to weave… Continue reading SWIM – Institutional aspects first and foremost
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New directions for Airport Collaborative Decision Making (CDM)
What exactly is CDM? Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) is not a new concept. It is being practiced to a certain degree both in the US and in Europe, focus being on en-route in the former and airports in the latter. Mature as the concept may be, surprisingly we still see experts who seem to believe… Continue reading New directions for Airport Collaborative Decision Making (CDM)
Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
Rob Mead – Long-way turn from Yellowstone to Seattle What were you dreaming of becoming when you were a kid? Actually… I did not dream of anything in particular. I put passion into everything I did, wanted to be good in what I did… I always felt that life was going in a good direction… Continue reading Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
SWIM, the external enabler – now read the book!
Towards the end of the SESAR definition phase the airspace users in Europe presented a paper, arguing that System Wide Information Management (SWIM) was in fact external to air traffic management and as such, its implementation could and should happen at its own rate matched to the need to ensure mximised, early benefits. The reasoning behind… Continue reading SWIM, the external enabler – now read the book!
(Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 2.
What is a net-centric system? Net-centric, in its most common definition, refers to “participation as a part of a continuously evolving, complex community of people, devices, information and services interconnected by a communications network to optimise resource management and provide superior information on events and conditions needed to empower decision makers.” It will be clear… Continue reading (Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 2.
(Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 1.
The birth of the SESAR Concept of Operations (CONOPS), perhaps not unexpectedly, was not an easy process. Although SESAR is claimed to be a user-driven project, when the airspace users tried to drive the development of the CONOPS, the road proved to be anything but smooth. Plenty of natural and artificial obstacles had to be… Continue reading (Before) all else fails… read the Concept! Part 1.
SWIM in the USA
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is an advanced technology program designed to facilitate greater sharing of Air Traffic Management (ATM) system information such as airport operational status, weather information, flight data, status of special use airspace, and National Air Space (NAS) restrictions. SWIM will support current and future NAS programs by providing flexible and secure… Continue reading SWIM in the USA
Standing all together… separately?
Reading the upbeat communication from the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) announcing the arrival of the airspace users on board the project, it may be worthwhile to take a look at the composition of the new arrivals and start worrying… just a tad mind you but still. There are individual airlines, both big and small and associations… Continue reading Standing all together… separately?
Scientific elite joins SESAR
Twelve renowned scientists have been signed up to create the new Scientific Committee of the SESAR Joint Undertaking. The Committee will deal with all scientific aspects of the work programme and will focus on: • the scientific analysis of SESAR from different angles: economics, human factors, statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, technology; • the liaison… Continue reading Scientific elite joins SESAR
At the cradle of SWIM
SWIM, well the name that is, was born in the early morning on a misty February day in a hotel room in Luxemburg. It was 1998.The abbreviation of System Wide Information Management, SWIM has now become an integral element of both SESAR and NextGen, the air traffic management development projects in Europe and the USA,… Continue reading At the cradle of SWIM