Remote Terminal Support using Common Backend Processing

摘要

The Federal Aviation Administration deploys and manages an array of advanced automation systems that provide safe and expeditious movement of aircraft, people, and goods through the National Airspace System (NAS). To reduce the cost of ownership while continuing to enhance safety, capacity, and efficiency, there is increasing focus on convergence of multiple automation systems. Convergence leverages the tools already in the FAA's inventory to address both the current automation needs as well as to meet future challenges. By promoting an enterprise wide perspective on key data and functions and deploying services that can be accessed by authorized stakeholders throughout the NAS, convergence ensures that all decision makers have identical and up to date data - promoting more accurate and timely decision making.As part of the effort to investigate NextGen convergence approaches, the Lockheed Martin NextGen Automation Platform (NGAP) Research and Development efforts in 2011 improved the communication and data exchange between en route and terminal systems by converging to a single backend and workstation platform for both Air Traffic domains. The en route system remotely supports a terminal workstation, providing common data source for both the en route and terminal controllers.