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Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. Software Technologies Scientist Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate SELEX-SI [[email protected]] Agenda

Group Overview Coflight Programme DDS and Coflight Concluding Remarks

Data from Annual Report as of December, 31 th. 2004 :

Revenues 9,158 Euro mln Employees: 51,026 (+8,6% vs 2003)

18% 1,709 € M 15% 1,428 € M 8% 782 € M 21% 2,056 € M AERONAUTICS HELICOPTERS SPACE DEFENCE ELECTRONICS SELEX Sistemi Integrati

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems GALILEO AVIONICA ALENIA AERONAUTICA SELEX SAS Ltd OFFICINE AERONAVALI ALCATEL ALENIA SPACE * ATR AERMACCHI AGUSTAWESTLAND TELESPAZIO * SELEX Communications Orizzonte *JV since 1st of July 2005 Elettronica

OTO MELARA ELSAG ANSALDO BREDA ANSALDO ENERGIA WASS DATAMAT ANSALDO STS MBDA ANSALDO SIGNAL

DEFENCE SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORTATION ENERGY 12% 1,148 € M 4% 391 € M 14% 1,375 € M 8% 729 € M

Datamat since 27 July 2005

HOMELAND SECURITY GUARDING THE EEZ

Leveraging the technological and industrial base of its companies, Using a variety of airborne, maritime, satellite and land assets, FINMECCANICA offers capabilities and solutions that meet the strategic FINMECCANICA solutions detect, identify and track targets in a EEZ goal of global security: scenario. - to prevent terrorists attacks This allows operation control centres and remote assets to view and assess - to reduce the vulnerability to terrorism of both population and key assets targets, manage their resources, communicate with each other and, when - to minimise damage and recovery time after an attack necessary, to intervene, to make swift and secure decisions.

DELIVERING INTEGRATED DEFENCE

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.

Systems

Naval C4I Air Traffic Systems Systems Systems

Products

Comm/ Comm/ Comm/ Services Services Services

CMS Radar C2/C3/C4 Radar Centres Radar Enabling Technologies

ATCC ATCC Reims Brest ATCC Paris Large program to replace ATCC existing FDP systems ATCC Zurich Geneve ATCC ATCC ATCC Milano Padova 4 Centers in Italy Bordeaux ATCC Aix-en- 5 Centers in France Provence 2 Centers in Switzerland ATCC Roma ATCC Initial Operational Brindisi Capabilities by 2009

Thales and Selex are co- contractors (60% - 40%) Thales and Selex are “solidaire” Coflight components allocated (60/40)

One contract with DSNA : DSNA ensure co-ordination with ENAV and Skyguide

Outdated System Architecture, difficult Système trop complexe to maintain difficult to integrate new services New Generation of FDPs needed

New ATC Concepts require significant FDPS upgrades

Civil Air Traffic Control mission provide services for En-route ATC, Approach ATC, and to Aerodrome Control Functions (VFR and IFR flights)

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 IOP version (network of Coflight in test mission)

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)

Improve maintainability (reduce life-cycle cost)

Improve Performance and Dependability

Simplify System operation : customisation, data preparation, testing

ATCC ATCC New System architecture Reims New System architecture Brest ATCC Paris

ATCC FunctionalFunctional enhancementsenhancements ATCC Zurich Geneve ATCC ATCC ATCC Milano Padova Bordeaux NewNew methodologiesmethodologies ATCC Aix-en- Provence

ATCC Roma ATCC Brindisi

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

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

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 Defense 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 Civil standardization of middleware services for C4I Support for Model Driven Architecture through the use of a UML toolchain

Not yet a CORBA standard Core

Under Standardization

Open Container Foundation

Configuration Build and Plugging Code XML Server Tools Generation CCM Trace Deployment

Pluggable

Services Event System Naming Property Life Life Cycle Recording DDS DLRL DDS DDS DCPS DDS Persistence Transaction Management Time & TimeClock & Fault Tolerance Fault Load Balancing Load

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

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

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 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

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

Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D. Software Technologies Scientist Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate Strategic and Technological Planning Directorate SELEX-SI SELEX-SI [[email protected]] Via Tiburtina Km 12.400 Tel. +39 06.41.50.3299 00131 Rome, Italy Fax. +39 06.41.50.2144