ENAV. WE LOOK UP.
SPECIAL WORLD ATM CONGRESS 2018

ENAV will be attending the Canso 
World ATM Congress 2018 in Madrid  

ENAV, the first and only Air Navigation Service Provider in the world to be listed on a Stock Exchange, has been an exhibitor at the Canso World ATM Congress ever since the first edition of the Event which will take place from 6 to 8 March, in a renovated Pavilion of the Madrid exhibition complex, Institución Ferial de Madrid (IFEMA).   The event, now in its sixth edition, is the most important international event in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) sector and hosts the main Providers and the most prestigious industries related to the world of air transport every year, with more than 190 exhibiting companies from over 120 countries.   A large number of hosted buyers and international guests will be visiting the stand for institutional and business meetings that will make the presence of the Company at the Canso World ATM Congress 2018 even more effective.   ENAV plays a fundamental role in the most important international projects and programs such as SESAR Joint Undertaking, SESAR Deployment Manager, BLUE MED, BLUEGNSS, 4-Flight/Coflight and it’s a significant shareholder in major international companies, AIREON and ESSP-EGNOS. The Company is also involved in a series of working tables within international Institutions and Organizations such Eurocontrol, ICAO, the European Commission and CANSO.   ENAV is leader in providing high quality services and solutions for Air Traffic Control, and commercializes a wide range of services, products and consulting, worldwide, including Aeronautical Consulting and Design, Maintenance and Engineering, Training, Flight Inspection and Meteo Services.   ENAV will participate, as speaker, in various scheduled seminars and planned international working groups during the Event, with the commitment, expertise, and passion that have always distinguished the Company. 

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ENAV will be attending the Canso World ATM Congress 2018
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Enav is the Italian company which offers services for air traffic control and other essential air navigation services in Italian skies and national airports. Airspace is a precious and limited resource that must be managed punctually, safely and in operational continuity and which must be in line with the growth of the aeronautical sector. Enav provides a safe flight environment to thousand of aircrafts in our skies and harmonious traffic conditions on a daily basis.

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Enav Seminars

Tuesday 6 at  15.10
Aireon Spotlight Stage

Title:  Beyond the Virtual Centre concept, a Digital Transformation of ATM in the Cloud

Speaker: Luigi Mazzucchelli, ENAV Technical Department Head ATM Systems Platforms -  ENAV


TUESDAY 6 at  17.15
Tower  Theatre

Title:  ENAV Decision Support System (DSS). A powerful ally to ensure highest level of Safety in ATS Units 

Speaker: Marco Giancarli, Business Development Department - ENAV

Wednesday  7 at  14.45
Frequentis Aviation Arena

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Title:  Italian Solution to Enable U-Space

Speaker:  Cristiano Baldoni, ENAV Technical Department Head of CNS, Meteo and ICT Security - ENAV  

WEDNESDAY  7 at  15.45
Tower  Theatre

Title:  Safeguarding Continuity of ILS Services, an innovative service-oriented solution 

Speaker:  Davide Tangorra, Head of sales - ENAV

international activities

ENAV has the international dimension at the heart of its daily work.It is one of the major European Air Navigation Service Providers, in terms of volume of controlled Airspace and movements as well as investments in technology innovation and R&D, also including programmes and partnerships at global level. ENAV has an outstanding expertise in Air Traffic Management (ATM) operations and services, in the development and validation of new concept of operations and procedures and in working with the supply industry to innovate, design, engineer and plan the implementation of new systems to safely support the Air Traffic Controllers in their highly demanding tasks. In line with its mission, ENAV has a leading role in the European and Mediterranean area while also working with the neighbor-ing regions by promoting synergies with other Service Providers and supporting the implementation of the Single European Sky. ENAV is also fully involved in all initiatives aimed at addressing the main challenges the aviation industry has to face today: the coordination of the research and development activities in the SESAR field, the deployment and coordinated rationalization of the air navigation systems, the growing need for the digitalization and virtualization of Air Traffic Management platforms, the synchronized implementation of technological and operational priorities, the need for an enhanced regulatory framework appli-cable at regional and global level as well as the emerging needs such as satellite technologies, drones and UTM. ENAV strategy and cooperation activities aim at developing synergies with the major ATM stakeholders to continuously improve the safety and quality of services provided and to explore the opportunities offered by the technology innovation for the benefit of all customers and finally the wider aviation community. ENAV plays an important role in the development of the A6 Alliance, the strategic partnership amongst some of the key Air Navigation Service Providers in Europe that in 2018, as a major driver for ANSP business and investments, will be steered by the ENAV Ceo Roberta Neri. ENAV, through acknowledged experts, actively contributes to the work of international institutions and organizations such as ICAO, EASA, Eurocontrol, EUROCAE as well as its trade association CANSO (Civil Air Navigation Services Organization). The international domain represents one of the key pillars for the future of aviation and ENAV is fully committed to provide its contribution.




SESAR

Strongly convinced of the pivotal role of the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) in the Single European Sky framework to conduct a delivery-oriented and performance-driven Research & Innovation (R&I) Programme, ENAV renewed its full participation in the SJU and its active support to SESAR 2020 Programme in seamless continuation with the work conducted in the first Devel-opment Phase - SESAR 1.   ENAV in SESAR 2020 Wave 1 (2016-2019) at a Glance 


 Contribution of 1,100 man-months 
 Participation in 16 Projects (out of 24), 2 of which with “Coordinator” role 
 Coordinator of PJ22-SEabird “Validation and Demonstration Engineering”      
 Coordinator of PJ03a-SUMO “Integrated Surface Management”     


 The SESAR 2020 Programme generates an innovation pipeline towards deployment, by demonstrating the viability of techno-logical and operational solutions already developed in SESAR 1 (2008-2016) in larger and more operationally-integrated envi-ronments. SESAR 2020 is ensuring a continuous flow of research results moving towards innovation and deployment. The Programme currently consists of 24 projects – Industrial Research & Validation and Very Large Scale Demonstrations and it is organised in two phases: Wave 1 for the years 2017- 2019 and Wave 2 for the remaining years up to 2021. More specifically, Wave 1 sees ENAV committed to the study of several operational concepts and technologies built upon the work already achieved with SESAR 1. 16 projects – of which 2 with leading role – are carried out by ENAV in a number of do-mains such as airports, en-route and terminal area along with planning, information management and IOP. More than 20 vali-dation activities planned by ENAV in Wave 1 address all Maturity Levels (V1 to V3) and validation techniques. ENAV got the leadership of the “Validation and Demonstration Engineering” (PJ22 – SEabird) to support effective collaborative requirements management and collection of all engineering data in the Programme, expected to strengthen the work done in the previous Validation Infrastructure Adaptation and Integration (SESAR1 WP3); in addition, ENAV coordinates the research stream on “Integrated Surface Management” (PJ03a – SUMO), continuing the work performed under SESAR 1, focused on the definition and validation of operational concept related to the Guidance function of the Advanced-Surface Movement Guid-ance and Control System (A-SMGCS) to support controllers and flight crews in ground operations. ENAV contribution in SESAR 2020 is complemented by a number of national and international partners, named Linked Third Parties (LTP): BULATSA, CIRA, Deep Blue, IBM, IDS, MATS, NAIS, Nav Canada and Techno Sky (ENAV affiliate). Specific long-term research activities (the so-called Exploratory Research) are also addressed by the Programmethrough ad-hoc Calls. 

For further information, please contact: 

Daniele Teotino  daniele.teotino@ENAV.it

SESAR 2020

ENAV NATIONAL TEST FACILITY AND THE VIRTUAL CENTER

In order to ensure ultimate effectiveness in the integrated process of build, integration, verification and validation of all ATM Systems, along the digitalization path, ENAV implemented the “National Test Facility” (NTF). The ENAV NTF is a fully fledged Cloud Data Center as well as a set of simulation, test and pre-operational rooms acting to support all the engineering and pre-operational phases of the ATM system chain. It serves all the ENAV programmes from Operational system SW maintenance, to Training of new concepts, the integration and validation of SESAR and new-generation of ATM components and systems, spanning three floors of a new dedicated building in Rome ACC. The ENAV NTF is located at Rome ACC and it is equipped with a clustered Software Defined Data Center, made in collaboration of the biggest players in the IT market, Operational and test Rooms, Simulators and inter-connected with simulated and shadow mode data Nationwide. It was recently joined with the AIREON service delivery point in Ciampino. Born with the aim of managing multiple and concurrent test environments, serving multiple integrated teams, it now became the “cloud-service-enabler” for all new concepts validation in ENAV. The NTF can act as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service as well as ATC-as-a-service (e.g. Coflight Cloud Services). The ENAV NTF serves the “Virtual Center” concept, by micro-services and secure micro-segmentation of (ATM systems) environments – allowing a fast, reliable, scalable, secure and affordable new infrastructure for the digital transformation. The NTF incorporated a new RPAS Simulation Facility, including the recently launched d-flight.it drone registration service in Italy and will serve research as well as pre-operational UTM-related phases. As Validation and Testing Centre of ENAV it includes the SESAR industrial based ATC platforms, SESAR Airborne segment composed of the Advanced Cockpit Simulator “ACS” and a set of virtualized cockpit simulators called iA/C and a fully-fledged 270° (Remote) Tower Simulator and the connection to the network infrastructures to support real Live trials (incl. PENS). 


For SESAR, the National Test facilities hosts the services for the PJ22 System Engineering Data Management Framework (SE-DMF.eu) that serves actively the preparation of the main artefacts and engineering data for the SESAR 2020 Programme.
 For further information, please contact: 

       LUIGI.MAZZUCCHELLI@ENAV.IT


SESAR Deployment Manager  

The SESAR Deployment Manager (DM) is the body nominated by the European Commission to coordinate and synchronize the Deployment Programme which aims at implementing SESAR systems and procedures. In January 2018 the SESAR Deploy-ment Manager (SDM) modified, under the Belgian law, its legal status in a non-for-profit international association, the Sesar Deployment Alliance AISBL (SDA AISBL). While the scope of work carried out by the SDM remains unchanged, its membership has been enlarged to HungaroControl, ROMATSA, and Ryanair which will cooperate alongside the founding members of the SDA Consortium, selected by the Euro-pean Commission on 5th December 2014: European airlines (Air France-KLM Group, Easyjet, IAG e Lufthansa Group); airports (SDAG - SESAR related Deployment Airport Group); and ANSPs like DFS (Germany), DSNA (France), ENAIRE (Spain), ENAV and NATS (UK), in collaboration with PANSA (Poland) and a group of ANSPs members of the COOPANS alliance made of AustroControl (Austria), Croatia Control, IAA (Ireland), LFV (Sweden) and Naviair (Denmark). The current SDM legal status as legal entity has simplified the SDM management of the activities of synchronizing the deploy-ment of the Pilot Common Project (PCP), reviewing of the PCP and performing its role as Datalink Services (DLS) implementation manager. Furthermore, the evolution in legal entity has also streamlined the SDM role as coordinator of multiple SESAR modernisation projects, in its capabilities to lead bids on behalf of subcontractors. ENAV has been playing a double (major) role in the SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM): 1.       as a member of the SDA AISBL, ENAV participates to the governing bodies of the organization and plays an important role at management level of the SDM.   1.       as an Implementing Partner, ENAV successfully took part to the Calls for Proposals 2014, 2015, 2016 and applied for the 2017 Call, within the European funding programme - Connecting Europe Facilities (CEF) which led to the granting of funds for projects related to the implementation of the Deployment Programme.   To the 2017 Call the European Commission (EC) approved EUR 290 million co-funding deployment pro jects co-ordinated by the SDM. ENAV has presented projects for an amount of 47 million of the total cost. For further info, please contact: 
 massimo.reale@enav.it 
 cristiano.cantoni@enav.it

DATA-LINK IMPLEMENTATION IN ITALY 

The gradual evolution of aeronautical communications from analogic to digital is an actual and needed process. Global and European plans for the modernisation of ATM exist and deal with this topic in depth, aiming at managing this evolution in a comprehensive, timely and coordinated way. ICAO Global Air Navigation Plan and European ATM Master Plan identify communication roadmaps, with overall indications both on related infrastructure and timing. Data-Link Communications represent one of the major technical enabler for the SESAR Concept of Operations. In particular, the availability of Data-Link Communications constitutes the essential facilitator to the coordinated and efficient deployment of fundamental ATM Functions, such as i4D and SWIM. ENAV has always been proactively involved in several international initiatives and projects (in some of them with a leading role), with the aim of analysing the governance models as well as the technical and operational aspects of the future Data-Link environment:
A6 Study on Data-Link Services (2013-2015)
SESAR JU Capacity Study (VDL mode 2 Capacity and Performance Analysis)
SESAR JU ELSA Study (VDL mode 2 Measurement, Analysis and Simulation campaign)
Data-Link Services implementation development activities in BLUEMED FAB Region
Implementation Projects in Innovative & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) CALLs 2014 and 2015
Implementation Projects in Innovative & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) CALL 2016: Path I – Implementation of the DLS transitional solution (Multi-Frequency in Blue Med area)
Path II – Preparatory activities towards the Target Solution
Implementation Projects in Innovative & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) CALL 2017: » DLS European Target Solution assessment.
Data-Link VDLM2 Communication infrastructure in Italy is characterised by the innovative “dual-squitter” solution (also known as “dual-language”), which ensures the optimisation of the available technical resources and the better use of the RF spectrum. In Italy, a stepwise approach has been chosen to implement DLS. Brindisi ACC was the first portion of Italian airspace where services associated with CM/CPDLC application were implemented since November 2016. The remaining 3 ACCs Padua, Rome and Milan FIRs will be operational with CM/CPDLC application and its correlated services by April 2018, ensuring a gradual and smooth transition and providing benefits to the Airspace Users. The development and implementation activities have increasingly allowed ENAV to gain a comprehensive and structured experience in the Data-Link Communications domain, which will pave the way to the wider platform of initiatives on which Europe will build its future ATM Data-Link Communication infrastructure. 

 For further info, please contact:   


Cristiano.Baldoni @enav.it    
Gianguido.Bragagnini @enav.it



Long Term Research

The Long Term Research drives the development and evaluation of innovative and unconventional ideas, concepts, methods and technologies that can define, prepare and deliver the performance required for the next generation of European ATM system and thus contribute to its successful evolution. 
 The next generation of European ATM system shall be designed to enable new con-cepts of air operations and shall be capable to handle and integrate safely different types of air vehicles (e.g. not excluding RPAS, Hypersonic, etc.).
 ENAV contribution to Long Term Research is intended to stimulate scientific research and to address where possible the known yet unsolved problems across the ATM Research domain transferring the results of past research and applying it to new appli-cations and/or novel technologies in search of innovative and ground breaking results. 
 ENAV is doing that pragmatically through the participation in several research S2020 Exploratory Research projects and Advisory Boards. ENAV vision is that Long Term Research projects have the potential to provide results that can be carried upward through the ATM Industrial Research paving the way to the deployment of successful ATM concepts and technologies as required by the SESAR 2020 Vision.
For further information, please contact: 


giancarlo.ferrara@enav.it



A6 ALLIANCE





The A6 is the alliance of some of the main European Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs).
 Its aim is to drive the modernisation of the European ATM network within SESAR for the benefit of all aviation stakeholders. Its role is to create synergies between the ANSP members of the SESAR JU to maximise customer and network benefits and to provide leadership at European level in critical technical and strategic areas. The A6 members, bound by a Memorandum of Co-operation, are full members of the SESAR Joint Undertaking, making the A6 uniquely placed to represent the interests of the ATM industry in the effective deployment of technologies and concepts de-veloped through SESAR. 
 The original Memorandum of Cooperation signed in 2011 by members of the original A6 Alliance (DSNA/France, DFS/ Germany, ENAV/Italy, ENAIRE/Spain, NATS/UK as well as Noracon Consortium including ANSPs of Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden) has been revised to enable even greater cooperation extending the membership to COOPANS Alliance (ANSPs of Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden) and the B4 consortium (ANSPs of Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia). Further, PANSA, Poland’s ANSP, became full member of the A6 Alliance and in 2017 the Alliance has widened the cooperation to Switzerland’s ANSP Skyguide, which has joined the A6 through a consor-tium with French DSNA. 
The A6 Alliance is also part of the SESAR Deployment Alliance AISBL (SDA), the legal entity performing the role of the SESAR Deployment Manager since the 1st January 2018. To this scope, the Alliance signed a cooperation agreement with the new SDA members - HungaroControl and Romatsa - for the SESAR Deployment Manager function, through a consortium led by PANSA. The main topics driving the A6 activities are those that represent today and in the next future the main challenges that the avia-tion industry have to face to continue its evolution towards the SES goals, in particular:   the coordination of the research and development activities in the SESAR field; the development and rationalization of the air navigation systems; the digitalization and virtualization of Air Traffic Management platforms; the synchronized implementation of technological and operational priorities dictated by the European "deployment" program and the enhanced regulatory framework applicable to all EU member states.   In 2018 ENAV further enhanced its commitment and contribution to the A6 purposes with a view to proactively support the modernization process of the European ATM through the appointment of Mrs. Roberta Neri, ENAV CEO, as chairperson of the A6 Alliance. Thanks to the solid relationship among partners, the A6 managed to strengthen their position and represent an influencing voice for any process potentially affecting the ATM business, while tightening up relationships with major stakeholders, within the industry as well as with the European institutions.
 For further info, please contact: 
  cristiano.cantoni@enav.it




4-FLIGHT

4-Flight has the objective to design, develop and put in operation the next generation of En route and Approach Air Traffic Management System, replacing the one currently serving the 751.728 Kmq-wide Italian airspace. The Programme is articulated in two phases. The first one implements the new ATM system capabilities to be deployed in the national air traffic support facilities. The second phase will enrich the phase 1 system with new functionalities in order to comply with future operational needs, new regulations and the future SESAR requirements for the 2020 forward scenario. The 4-Flight ATM system is developed following a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach, adopting state-of the art engineering practices and innovative technological enablers. It integrates the new Flight Data Processor developed in the framework of the Coflight eFDP Programme, with Finmeccanica and Thales constituting the supply Consortium for ENAV and DSNA with the Eurocontrol ATM surveillance tracker and server (ARTAS). The 4-Flight ATM system responds to state-of-the-art functional and non-functional specifications and responds to the operational and technical requirements stemming from the SESAR Programme. 4-Flight key functionalities are:  
integrated Environment Data Management: 
System-wide environment data centralised management; Import/export from/to European and local sources according to AIXM; Assisted setting of ATM system parametres; Off-line preparation of multiple environment data sets with copy, merge and migration facilities. 
  Enhanced Working Position (WP): Based on Java software technology and OpenGL graphical engine; Predicted Range and Bearing: both point-to-track to support air traffic planning management and track to-track for quick check of separation; Graphical features for quick order issuing (e.g. flight leg for rerouting using drag and drop). 
  Flexible Airspace Management + Civil Military Coordination: Flexible and adaptive control of Civil and Military Air responsibility for the flight crossing the GAT/OAT volumes, TSA areas, Strategic airspace constraint volumes; Automatic CDR/TSA activation and deactivation according centralised and configurable timetable, easy and prompt display of the CDR/TSA areas status.
  Air Ground Data Exchange (AGDE): AGDE services fully integrated in the ATM environment; AGDE HMI directly available on controller positions and harmonized with HMI principles; Graphical objects (e.g.: label) identify the point of contact between the HMI operator and the airborne; Control and Monitoring of AGDE services is integrated in the system technical maintenance platform; Recording and Playback of AGDE services is integrated in the legal recording; Scalable and Flexible, each AGDE service can be separately configured in the system and can be configured to interface any Service Provider through any Network.

ENAV is implementing 4-Flight in its Area Control Centres. On the road to compliance with Pilot Common Project’s requirements and SES implementing rules. For further information, please contact: 


claudio.cannavicci@enav.it


  

coflight

The Coflight-eFDP System is a next generation Flight Data Processing (FDP) System designed to meet the future needs of Air Navigation Service Providers, satisfying the necessity for the harmonisation and interoperability of air traffic management systems in Europe and facilitating the integration of advanced tools in the global ATM system, for the benefit of all transport stakeholders in compliance with Single European Sky and SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) programme objectives. The system will replace the current legacy flight data processing system with a modern one through a staged implementation plan. The system contains features that will satisfy the general needs of ATM in Europe and thanks to its open architecture its integration will be allowed in any particular air navigation services provider’s environment. To reduce maintenance costs and to facilitate developments, the system architecture is model driven (MDA) and comply with recognised standards (CORBA, object oriented languages, UML modelling tools). This new highly fault-tolerant architecture complies with the EU Safety Regulatory Requirements applicable to CNS/ATM systems. The basic philosophy of the implementation programme is to reduce risks to a minimum by adopting an incremental development strategy. The level of change at each step will be limited, enabling phased integration in the overall National and European ATM systems, rapid corrections in the case of errors and quick investment returns. Coflight provides also advanced functions like 4D trajectory predictions, interoperability with other systems and datalink capabilities, supporting current and future operational concepts. Enav and the French Air Navigation Service provider – DSNA (Direction de Services de la Navigation Aérienne) alongside industrial partners Leonardo and Thales, have confirmed - on June 2017 - their commitment to Coflight, the new generation Flight Data Processing System, reinforcing their cooperation to promote Coflight on the European scene by the establishment of a long-term support and maintenance services contract. 

For further info, please contact: 


claudio.cannavicci@enav.it

COFLIGHT CLOUD SERVICES

In March 2014 during the World ATM Congress (WAC), DSNA, Enav, MATS and Skyguide CEOs launched the programme “Coflight Cloud Services” (CCS). The four ANSPs partnered to study the feasibility of providing flight data processing and related services based on Coflight-eFDP product as a first step towards Virtual Centre Concept.   A two-year feasibility study was conducted over 2015/2016, during which CCS programme explored:   the operational environment driving CCS concept (customers’ needs, provider/customer responsibilities, commercial offers for future customers), and the corresponding technical architecture for software, hardware and network, also ensuring the future SWIM compliance of the solution;  the legal aspects for this programme on the contract part, but also on safety, security and interoperability aspects ac-cording to current regulations; the additional requirements that should be implemented in further steps of the programme to make it fully operational according to partner’s needs; the way(s) to have a smooth transition for customers from current ATM systems to target systems including CCS;  finally, the economic aspects of this programme, starting with a market study followed by an evaluation of business models of CCS once in operation for Customers.   This two-year feasibility study was concluded by Trials, in order to demonstrate the capability to provide a defined subset of the CCS services to a distant ANSP and to validate the CCS technical aspects defined. The operational environment has defined 5 CCS services that are the high level business solutions proposed to Customers: Each mission has a specific operational objective which is reached by using a subset of CCS services that are contractually pro-vided by a Provider to a Customer, with dedicated agreed Service Levels. Description of Customers and Providers expectations, requirements, and responsibilities for each CCS services has been commonly elaborated, according to each partner’s needs. By using CCS, ANSPs will be able to deliver optimum performance to airspace users. In fact, Coflight Cloud Services will re-motely provide:     
4D-trajectory prediction, a trajectory always close to the actual behavior of the aircraft Vertical profile management using all the Requested Flight Level (RFL) as filed in the initial flight plan Modification of routes Monitoring alerts for flight data discrepancies   Interoperability functions  Datalink capabilities Gate-to-gate eFDP Flexible use of airspace   Coflight Cloud Services will provide a remote service delivery instead of deploying a new physical system component. This is the beginning of a new business model in ANS. Coflight Cloud Services concept development will enable ANSPs to share investments and reduce operating costs. For further info, please contact:
claudio.cannavicci@enav.it 

ERATO  (EN-ROUTE AIR TRAFFIC ORGANIZER)  

ERATO is a set of modern tools for air traffic controllers developed by Enav and DSNA (French Air Navigation Service Provider) which integrate innovative functions providing helpful assistance in conflict resolution in an electronic environment. ERATO is much more than simply a Mid-Term Conflict Detection (MTCD) tool: the system also includes parameter simulation (“What if” concept) and monitoring alert (MONA) tools. Real time simulations in Italy and live trials in France have demonstrated significant benefits that ERATO can bring in terms of safety and capacity. Enav has planned a progressive implementation of ERATO starting from 2018 in all 4 Italian ACCs. ERATO will be gradually integrated in Enav and DSNA’s new generation ATM system, the 4-Flight programme.   

ERATO is designed to support controller decision-making helping them to work in a safer and more efficient way" 



For further info, please contact: Claudio Cannavicci 
claudio.cannavicci@enav.it



ENAV AND THE SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY  

Enav looks at satellite technology as one of the main enabler in the future CNS/ATM scenario, where the capability of a system to support continental/global services, joining and harmonizing the efforts of multiple stakeholders, will be a key factor for suc-cess. Enav has joined satellite initiatives in the CNS field since nineties by providing expertise and financial contribution in the EGNOS Programme (i.e. the first European step in satellite navigation)    

NAVIGATION

EGNOS

EGNOS is the European Satellite Based Augmentation System (today augmenting GPS), able to support approach procedures with ver-tical guidance (APV-I SBAS and SBAS CAT I (LPV200)) allowing reduced minimum decision height, set at up to 250-200 feet. This reduction allows, among others, increased runway capacity, permitting landings under conditions of poor visibility, even in airports not equipped with ILS or when ILS service is unavailable. EGNOS Signal in Space was certified and declared available by the European Commission for Safety of Life (SoL) application in its coverage area in March 2011. In December 2012 Enav, among the first ANSPs in Europe, designed and published the first APV-I SBAS procedure in Italy in Milano Linate. Other procedures were then published for Ciampino, Fiumicino, Malpensa, Bologna, Venice, Olbia, Verona, Firenze e Bergamo airports for a total of 19 Italian RWYs today served by APV-I SBAS procedures. Being its flight inspection fleet equipped with EGNOS certified capabilities, Enav is also involved at international level in both design and flight validation of procedures outside Italy. During the EGNOS system design and implementation as well as EGNOS service certification and introduction, Enav experts participated in the definition of Mission and Operational requirements. Such participation, still ongoing in view of the next ver-sions of the EGNOS system, is provided both at Committee/Board/Panel and/or Working Group/ Task Force level within the ICAO, ESA, EUROCONTROL, EC and GSA working arrangements dealing with Satellite Navigation matters. The experience gained in GNSS allows Enav involvement in national and international projects for EGNOS services introduction and EGNOS system evolutions. Among them, projects promoted by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) like BLUE GNSS and by INEA like “Deployment of SBAS Cat 1 capability on Airbus A320”. Further main roles played by Enav in EGNOS are related to its membership in ESSP (European Satellite Services Provider) and its operating in Rome ACC premises one of the two Mission Control Centre (MCC) of the EGNOS system.

ESSP 

ESSP was founded as an European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) in 2001. In 2008 ESSP was transformed into a new compa-ny of limited liability “ESSP SAS” to be awarded by the European Commission (acting as owner of the EGNOS system since April 2009) with the first contract for the operations of the EGNOS Open Service (OS) and the service provision of the EGNOS SoL service and the European Data Access Service (EDAS) for EGNOS commercial applications. ESSP has been successfully operating and delivering the EGNOS SoL service since 2011 on behalf of the European GNSS Agency. ESSP is unique as shareholders of ESSP with Enav are other 6 major ANSPs and it holds a Pan- European ANSP certificate from EASA. EGNOS, the European SBAS, in its service area has been offering “Cat 1 everywhere, every time” since 2015 and ESSP with its share-holders has largely contributed to the swift increase of the number of EGNOS based approaches, now reaching more than 400. Taking benefits of its proved excellence in EGNOS service provision, ESSP SAS, following a competitive bid, was awarded in 2013 by EC/GSA with the contract to provide the EGNOS services up to 2021.  

BLUEGNSS

is a project funded by GSA, coordinated by Enav and involving HCAA (Greece), MATS (Malta), DCAC (Cyprus) and IDS (in-dustrial partner), developed in the framework of the Horizon 2020 Research and Development activities. It has the objective to implement RNP APCH on airports belonging to the BLUE MED FAB, train airspace procedure designers, and implementing the first regional GNSS Monitoring network. This last one, jointly with the harmonised approach proposed at FAB level, is a key innovation point of the project, based on the work coordinated by Enav at ICAO Navigation Systems Panel on this topic. The regional GNSS network will allow economic savings for States that want to implement GNSS monitoring for formal GNSS ac-ceptance. In the frame of the project Enav has designed and validated 12 procedures, demonstrating the benefits of EGNOS procedures in terms of airport accessibility with improved vertical guidance and lower minima in particularly challenging envi-ronments. The regional GNSS monitoring network is fully deployed and has been monitoring GPS, Galileo and EGNOS per-formances over the BLUEMED airspace since October 2017.





COMMUNICATIONS

IRIS

In 2016 Enav joined the ESA “Iris” initiative as contributor to INMARSAT in Iris “Service Evolution Study” IRIS is the ESA Programme aiming to develop a satellite-based air–ground communication system for Air Traffic Management (ATM). The Iris Service starts with Iris IOC to support Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) and Initial 4D; it will act as a complement to VDL M2 over ATN. In the longer term the vision is that the Iris service will evolve to Iris FOC to support Full 4D and operate in a “multi-link” environment with future terrestrial data-links, providing a higher performance and highly secure service. By 2020, Iris IOC is expected to support in Europe CPDLC and initial 4D flight path control, with the exchange of EPPs (Extended Projected Profiles) coming directly from avionic systems. The core characteristic of i4D is making sure that trajectories are always synchronised between air and ground, which will enable more efficient management of traffic and certainty of flight profiles.   




SURVEILLANCE 

Since 2013, becoming a member of Aireon LLC, Enav has enlarged its involvement in satellite technologies to include the sur-veillance domain through satellite ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast). 
AIREON is a Company to design, finance, procure, deploy and operate a global, satellite-based aviation monitoring service utilizing ADS-B technology. 
ENAV participate in AIREON with 12,5% of shares, other shareholders being NAVCANADA, Iridium Com-munications Inc., IAA and Naviair.
Aireon will take benefit of the world’s furthest reaching network, being Aireon special ADS-B receiver payloads to be hosted on each of the Iridium Next 66 LEO operational satellites constellation. In 2017 the first 40 satellites of the Iridium next constellation have been successfully launched; last launches will complete the constellation in summer 2018 allowing Aireon to deliver the first-ever space-based global aviation surveillance system. 
 Thanks to Aireon service, the ADS-B message transmitted by the aircraft and including information on its position as accurate as calculated onboard could reach an ANSPs wherever the aircraft is flying on the globe. Aireon data are expected to have a strong positive impact on air operations both by allowing the most efficient surveillance in areas not covered by radar and by giving all the benefits by a further diversified (satellite vs ground) surveillance layer in areas already radar-covered. Moreover, the possibility of knowing real time aircraft position in every airspace around the world will create new opportunities for future air traffic management optimisation and value-added services.ENAV participation in Aireon is also intended to bring to the development of this Satellite ADS-B service all the experience and skills of one of the major European ANSP as well as to develop synergies with other international initiatives. In this frame ENAV, that hosts in its Ciampino Technical Centre one of the first delivered Aireon Service Delivery Point (SDP), is also contributing to Aireon ADS-B data validation and Aireon EASA certification.  





ENAV AND UAS TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT (UTM)

ENAV, in cooperation with the Italian CAA (ENAC), has developed an approach toward implementation of a national instance of UTM, scalable and also exportable to other countries, based on a business model that is financially sustainable, which will ensure a high level of safety for UAS and for the existing manned aviation system, boosting the growth of the UAS market while also contributing to enhance privacy, data protection and security. 
 The early implementation of UTM in Italy:  anticipates the full compliance with the draft regulatory material developed by EASA for stakeholders consultation;  complies with the vision and approach settled by SESAR Joint Undertaking U-Space Blueprint Draft following Warsaw Declaration;  matches with the high-level architectural layout designed by GUTMA.  
The goal of the initiative is to unlock the enormous benefits for economy, safety and environment expected by services based on UAS BVLOS operations in several civil and industrial fields and human activities, while providing, through key and basic UTM services, i.e. Registration, e-identification and Geofencing, the adequate answers to diverging public interests and concerns including homeland security and defense. 
Registration of Owners/Operators and UAS can be performed already through a web portal, www.d-flight.it, which is published and operated by Enav on behalf of ENAC, that ensures oversight. The stepwise implementation of the Italian UTM, will allow conscious and gradual removal of rules limiting UAS exploitation, sustaining growth of the UAS services market.  



BLUE MED

The Single European Sky regulatory framework is now experiencing the full implementation of Functional Airspace Blocks (FABs) by the EU Member States.   A Functional Airspace Block is a portion of airspace where air traffic is managed regardless of existing national boundaries, taking into account op-erational and technical requirements and considering Airspace Users’ needs at the centre of service provision. Within an established FAB, Air Traffic Management is harmonised among the Partners, limiting costs, improving operational ca-pacity, reducing the environmental impact of operations, while Safety levels are preserved, if not increased.     The BLUE MED FAB project - coordinated by Enav - is the European central/south-eastern FAB initiative. It represents the natu-ral European gate dedicated to air traffic flows coming from Africa and the Middle-East, namely among the regions with the prospective fast growing trend in the next future. The BLUE MED Partners are the EU Member States of Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta. In 2013, the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the BLUE MED FAB for its involvement in the initiative. The BLUE MED FAB is open to the participation of other States which are interested in cooperating in a wide range of activi-ties, allowing them to reap the full benefits of the integration of operational and technical solutions developed in the Mediterra-nean area. Today – further its Feasibility Study (2007-2008) and Definition Phase (2009-2012) which investigated the Project validity and assessed technical, regulatory, Safety/Security and expected economic results – the BLUE MED FAB is in its Implementation Phase, a coordinated deployment initiative in which operational and technical improvements are being delivered, also through the cooperation with the European SESAR Deployment initiative and the ATM Industry. The Implementation Phase is progressively determining a paramount shift in the organisation of Air Navigation Services over the Mediterranean basin, bringing competition advantages in the area and benefits for the Airspace Users in terms of enhanced efficiency of services, reduced delays and costs, with lower environmental impact, always under the umbrella of improved Safe-ty levels. All these benefits are also being coordinated with other FABs, through an inter-FAB cooperation platform which is aimed at sharing best practices provided by FABs. In line with the SES esprit, the coming years will see the fulfillment of FAB benefits for the Mediterranean Area, not only lim-ited to the airspaces of the BLUE MED Member States, but also extended to neighbouring non-EU Countries, willing to share and integrate their experiences and practices in the Air Traffic Management.