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The SESARprogramme takes of

THE SELECTIONPROCESS: A STRICTPROCEDURE ANDINTENSE REVIEW

The last ew months have been partic-

ularly intense or all parties involved. In

accordance with the procedure, all o-

ers rom the 16 prospective members

had to be delivered in February. This

preparatory work represented a signi-

cant eort on behal o the prospective

members to detail and explain their

best oer. All oers were received in

good time and validated. The SJU team

members and 16 independent experts

analysed all the oers, totalling more

than 1,500 pages. Several juries were

established to review the oers relat-

ing to each work package. The jury

members were ensconced in a Euro-

pean Commission building in Brussels

specially designed or evaluation pro-

cesses. The conclusions o these juries

allowed the Executive Director to pro-

pose to the SJU Administrative Board

that agreements be

concluded with

16 members. Board

approval was obtained on

26 March. Agreements com-

mitting to total spending o 1.9 billion

were signed on 12 June with the ollow-

ing companies: AENA, Airbus, Alenia

Aeronautica, the DFS, the DSNA, ENAV,

EUROCONTROL, Frequentis, Honey-

well, INDRA, NATMIG, NATS (En Route)

Limited, NORACON, SEAC, SELEX

Sistemi Integrati and Thales.

16 WORk PACkAGESAND 295 PROJECTSIN TOTAL

Based on the ATM Master Plan de-

veloped during the Denition Phase

o the SESAR Programme, the Work

Programme denes all projects and

activities to be undertaken in the pe-

riod 2008 to 2016 timerame under the

supervision o the SESAR JU. The Work

Programme, executed in coopera-

tion with the 16 members, comprises

ONE NEW SESAR

PROJECT PER DAY

Since the signature of the contracts

on 12 June, 30 projects have already

started, equalling one new SESAR

project per day. The following three

projects are examples of these:

n Project GBAS Cat II/III for the

development of satellite aircraft

precision landing systems.

n Project SWIM AirGround Ca

pability for the design of the

future aviation Intranet.

n Project Airport Surface Data

lin on WiFi standards for com

munication between all actors

on the ground at the airport.

In total, 124 projects are due to be

launched in 2009.

New SESAR components and opera

tional procedures will be gradually

implemented between 2012 and

2020.

12 June 2009 was a historic day or the SESAR Joint Undertaking as it

marked the ocial start o the SESAR programme. Ater months o eforts

devoted to creating the Joint Undertaking and to liaising with the pro-

spective members, all parties are now ully ready to start working

together to deliver the new Single European Sky. The SESAR Master Plan

will steer the work and the Project Support Oce o the SESAR Joint

Undertaking will manage and coordinate the various work packages to

ensure smooth and rapid progress. Eric Platteau, Chie o Communica-

tions at the SESAR JU, tells us how.

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The work packages are presented on

www.sesarju.eu.

The work programme will be sup-

ported by the Industrial Support Team

(IS) o Airbus. IS is responsible or the

technical coherence o all tasks, and

will provide support or system-o-sys-

tems engineering methods so that all

the members can progressively build

up, under the leadership o the SESAR

JU, the highly complex shared data

model o this programme.

MAIN CONCEPTUALCHANGE IN A MODERN-ISED SkY: THE BUSINESSTRAJECTORY

Taking ull advantage o existing and

newly developed technologies, SESARs

target concept relies on a number o

key eatures:

n the notion o trajectory-based op-

erations, which will dramatically

improve the predictability and pre-

cision o operations;

n a rolling network operation plan,

taking into account real-time situa-

tions including weather and trafc

trends;

n the introduction o an air trafc

management intranet, including

aircrat, which will enable all actors

to have ull access to the right in-

ormation at the right time;

n the ull integration o airport

ground activities into the air trafc

management processes;

n increased automation support or

air trafc controllers and pilots,

enabling them to concentrate on

high-added-value activities;

n increased environmentally riendly

operations at airports, allowing

greener trajectories whilst maxi-

mising the use o existing run-

ways. n

16 work packages aimed at providing

tangible results rom the ATM Network

R&D Programme.

These packages will de-

velop and deliver the

necessary operational

and technical mate-

rial (specications, pro-

cedures, prototypes,

validation reports, etc.)

or the gradual industri-

alisation, deployment and operation o

the new ATM system.

The Programme is split into our dier-

ent areas:

n operational activities are handled

by WPs 4, 5, 6 and 7;

n system development activities are

handled by WPs 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and

15;

n system-wide inormation manage-

ment is handled by WPs 8 and 14;

n transverse activities, such as the

validation inrastructure, develop-

ment o saety, security, environ-

ment and human perormance

guidance and cases, ATM Master

Plan maintenance, the target con-

cept and architecture maintenance,

are handled by various WPs (e.g. B,

C, 3, 16).

THE NEW SESAR TEAM

There is now a new SESAR team comprising all sta working on SESAR all over

Europe and located at our members premises. Patrick Ky, Executive Director o the

SESAR Joint Undertaking says This new community o SESAR workers has the uture

o European air trafc management in their hands. Bear in mind that we need to

achieve a paradigm shit rom the way air trafc management is organised today.

An open mind, operational excellence and dedication should guide their day-to-day

work. We count on their commitment to make this innovative adventure a historic

European success story. The SJU will be the guardian o the smooth execution o the

work packages and will do its utmost to liaise all the teams involved.

SESARs new components and operational procedures will be gradually implement-

ed rom 2012 to 2020.

However, it is essential that we also identiy and develop quick wins or implemen-

tation as rom 2010 says Patrick Ky.

Regular updates available at w ww.sesarju.eu.