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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

ICNS 2009 - Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference

In May this year I attended the ICNS conference that took place in Arlington, Virginia. It was organised by IEEE/AESS together with AIAA/DATC, the FAA, the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) and NASA at the Crystal City hotel district.

The main topic of the conference was NextGen, of course. One of the opening presentations had a look at the 2009 NextGen Implementation Plan, which can be found here. The plan currently acts as communication medium between the FAA and the aviation community on NextGen equipage thereby answering the requirements set by the national airspace system (NAS) enterprise architecture (EA). Such dialogue will be critical for achieving benefits and return on investment for both the community and the government. The document tries to answer what NextGen will look like in the mid-term from 2012 to 2018, what benefits it will deliver, what the aircraft avionics equipage needs are through 2018, what FAA is committed to deploy in the near-term and what activities are underway to support future capabilities.

The conference agenda was composed of plenary sessions that were set-up like theatre play type of interviews with a certain panel at centre stage. The sessions addressed the three main topics of the conference, namely NextGen, Net-centric Operations, and Trajectory Based Operations (TBO).

NLR presented the results of their project on Virtual Block Control and Separation Bubbles. For the complete programme and the paper presentations, the ICNS website can be consulted.

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