Air Traffic Control
Future Outlook
- Modern FAA communications architecture for weather information, including network-enabled weather for the National Airspace System
- New architecture for terminal and en route weather systems and sensors
- Broader coupling of weather and air traffic information, including prototype decision-support tools that incorporate weather and estimates of weather forecast uncertainty
- Improved assessment of performance and efficiency in the National Airspace System, including benefits of integrated weather systems and assessment of avoidable delay
- Demonstrations of enhanced surveillance capabilities with the Multifunction Phased Array Radar for air surveillance
- Development of integrated, net-centric surveillance architecture supporting air traffic control and homeland defense missions. Key sensor inputs include the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, operational air traffic control radar networks, and surge sensors.
The Laboratory advanced the state of the art for fan beam surveillance radars allowing them to effectively detect and track both aircraft and hazardous weather in environments posing significant stationary and non-stationary clutter.
- Program overview
- Principal accomplishments over the past year
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