Coflight efdp Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. Software Technologies Scientist

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1 Coflight efdp Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. Software Technologies Scientist Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate SELEX-SI

2 Agenda Group Overview Coflight Programme DDS and Coflight Concluding Remarks

3 Group Overview

4 The Group Data from Annual Report as of December, 31 th : Revenues 9,158 Euro mln (+8,6% vs 2003) Employees: 51,026

5 The Mission DELIVERING INTEGRATED DEFENCE HOMELAND SECURITY Leveraging the technological and industrial base of its companies, FINMECCANICA offers capabilities and solutions that meet the strategic goal of global security: - to prevent terrorists attacks - to reduce the vulnerability to terrorism of both population and key assets - to minimise damage and recovery time after an attack FINMECCANICA offers its innovative integrated defence systems as the solution to traditional and new defence missions that call for rapid armed forces deployment and mobility in a joint and combined environment. Command and Control capabilities are integrated with a wide range of air, land, naval and space platforms, platform systems and weapon systems within a global network-centric infrastructure.

6 SELEX-SI Positioning SELEX Sistemi Integrati is world leader in the provision of Integrated Defense, Air Traffic and Paramilitary mission critical systems Customer base in over 150 countries A fifty-year track record as radar and system supplier Revenues 700 M, backlog over 1,200 M Over 3,200 employees in Italy, USA, Germany and UK Air Traffic Management Homeland Protection VTMS & Coastal Sourveillance Systems Integrated Air Defence Systems Battlespace C4I Naval Mission Systems Combact System Integrations ATC, Land and Naval Radar Sensors

7 Coflight Program

8 Coflight Program Brest Large program to replace existing Flight Data Processor (FDP) systems 4 Centers in Italy 5 Centers in France 2 Centers in Switzerland Paris Reims Geneve Bordeaux Zurich Milano Padova Aix-enProvence Roma Brindisi Initial Operational Capabilities by 2009

9 The Coflight partners Thales and Selex are co-contractors (60% - 40%) One contract with DSNA : DSNA ensure co-ordination with ENAV and Skyguide

10 Rationale Outdated System Architecture, difficult to maintain difficult to integrate new services Système trop complexe New ATC Concepts require significant FDPs upgrades FDP Flight Data Processor New Generation of FDPs needed

11 Coflight Mission Civil Air Traffic Control mission provide services for En-route ATC, Approach ATC, and to Aerodrome Control Functions Military Air Traffic Control mission provide services to military Air Traffic Controllers for the control of military flights Training mission support the training of Coflight users in civil and military missions Test mission test new software version, new environment data set, new InterOperability (IOP) version (network of CoFlight in test mission)

12 Coflight Operational Objectives Support operational improvement Increase global control capacity of the system: Planning, Sequencing tools, Balancing control capacity/traffic load, Flexible Use of Airspace, Free Routing Increase controller unit capacity by reducing routine tasks: e.g. Alleviation of coordination procedures Improve Interoperability (Air-Ground, ATM integration)

13 Coflight Technical Objectives Improve maintainability (reduce life-cycle cost) Improve Performance and Dependability Simplify System operation: customisation, data preparation, testing

14 The Coflight enhancements Brest Paris New System architecture Reims Geneve Bordeaux Functional enhancements Zurich Milano Padova New methodologies Aix-enProvence Roma Brindisi

15 Coflight Functional Enhancements 4D Trajectory Prediction: Total Energy Model Interoperability intra-, inter-centres Interface with Arrival Manager (AMAN), Departure Manager (DMAN) and Air-Ground Data Link Use of Trajectory uncertainty for Medium Term Conflict Detection Implementation of What-If function (Inter & Intra centres) Flexible use of Airspace, full civil/military coordination

16 New system architecture Evolution from centralised architecture towards a fully distributed and open architecture based on modular components (consistent with AHLM model) Coflight make use of a new CORBA middleware developed by an industrial consortium grouping THALES and SELEX: CARDAMOM Pluggable ATM Applications CARDAMOM Middleware LINUX Operating Systems COTS Hardware

17 CARDAMOM Principles A framework to configure, deploy and execute near real-time, fault-tolerant distributed applications Common Development Organization A next generation middleware developed by and Industrial Organization Core Principles Multi-Domain Tailorable Services Choose between COTS integration or specific value-added implementations that fit industrial needs Support for Component Oriented Software Development Active participation to standardization of middleware services for C4I Support for Model Driven Architecture through the use of a UML toolchain Defense Civil

18 CARDAMOM Not yet a CORBA standard Core Under Standardization Open Container Transaction Event Persistence Load Balancing Time & Clock Fault Tolerance DDS DLRL Trace DDS DCPS CCM Deployment Recording XML Server System Management Code Generation Property Configuration and Plugging Naming Pluggable Services Build Life Cycle Tools Foundation

19 Data Distribution in ATC

20 ATC Trends Historically, ATC systems have been island, with limited interoperability Today, the trend is that of moving toward fully integrated and interoperable federations Data Distribution which have characterized FDPs now apply to federations of geographically distributed FDPs

21 Data Distribution in ATC 1/2 Air Traffic Control Systems have very stringent requirements in terms of data distribution Flight Data Plan have to be distributed efficiently, timely, and reliably to several nodes Historically ATC Systems have relied on proprietary middleware which where designed ad hoc to address these requirements Often these systems did not provide means for configuring QoS, as it was built inside the system

22 Data Distribution in ATC 2/2 The current trend in ATC is that of moving toward fully integrated and interoperable federations of ATC centers Data Distribution which have characterized FDPs now apply to federations of geographically distributed FDPs

23 Data Distribution in Coflight The OMG DDS satisfies most of the key requirements of ATC Systems Relevant features include persistency, reliability, high availability, Due to this natural match between DDS and most of ATC key requirements, CoFlight relies on the OMG DDS for the distribution of Flight Data Plans

24 Data Distribution in CoFlight IOP The goal is to have fully interoperability between different CoFlight Instances Operational data such as Flight Data Plans and Environmental Data is distributed geographically via DDS Integration with non trusted systems is done at the edge

25 One Stop Shop The DDS key features make it a potential one stop shop solution for the data distribution need of ATC Systems As of today it is easily applicable to: Radar Track Distribution Flight Data Plan Distribution Intra- and Inter-Center Operational Interoperability etc. However, some extension will be needed in order to fully support all ATC needs But the OMG seems on the right track toward supporting these needs

26 Concluding Remarks Coflight is a challenging ATC program which will provide several improvement in the state of the art of Air Traffic Control The OMG Data Distribution Service, has been adopted by Coflight as a standard for data dissemination As DDS nicely address many ATC requirements, we are eager to see it evolve toward a one-stopshop solution

27 Thank You! Sottotitolo - Arial 24 pt. Angelo Corsaro, Corsaro, Ph.D. Ph.D. Angelo Software Technologies Technologies Scientist Scientist Software Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate SELEX-SI SELEX-SI [angelo.corsaro@selex-si.com] Via Tiburtina Km Tel Rome, Italy Fax