Lockheed Martin Adds Jeppesen and Sensis to Airport Technology Team

Lockheed Martin added Jeppesen and Sensis Corporation to the industry consortium it is co-leading with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the Daytona Beach International Airport (DBIA) to showcase emerging airport technologies.

The consortium is implementing what it calls an Integrated Airport Project over a three-year period, designed to demonstrate the value of new technologies to improve the safety, security, capacity and overall efficiency of airports.

Jeppesen's initial contribution will be a detailed airport mapping database for DBIA that will serve as a geographic base for surveillance and ground traffic operations at the airport.  Sensis is bringing its expertise in ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) and SWIM (system-wide information management) networks and decision-support tools that enable trajectory-based operations.

The consortium currently is working to identify enabling technologies that can facilitate the collection and sharing of information between various airport constituencies, and between the airport and other domains of the air transportation system.

Embry-Riddle and DBIA are lead partners with Lockheed Martin in this endeavor, and are pursuing federal funding for the project, which is designed as a 50-50 government-industry partnership.  Lockheed Martin's support for the project is arranged through "in-kind" contributions of its expertise in systems integration, engineering and information technology. Besides Sensis and Jeppesen Transtech Airport Solutions, ENSCO and Mosaic ATM are consortium members.

The project is proceeding in four phases, the first of which began last fall with a focus on safety and security that will last through the third quarter of 2007.  The second, overlapping phase, which began this quarter, is looking at airport surface capacity and efficiency.  Phases 3 and 4 will begin in 2008 and will be directed at arrival and departure management, navigation and all-weather operations.

The team demonstrated a number of components of the project this past week at an industry conference at Daytona Beach.  03-31-2007.

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