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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015 NATCA DAILY DISPATCH 11 CFS has grown from a small safety conference with 40 attendees in 1999 to the aviation industry's leading conference, attracting over 1,500 attendees this year, resulting in considerable industry attention and an array of new exhibitors. This year's conference will feature more exhibitors than ever due to the invaluable feedback companies receive from NATCA members who visit their booths and provide user input on emerging technologies and equipment. Companies want NATCA members involved in the development of technology to provide a perspective from actual users of the technology, program, or equipment they are developing. Read below for detailed information about what some of our sponsors will be showcasing! Meet Your CFS Sponsors and Exhibitors Bad weather takes the blame for most air traffic delays, but technology is on the way to help air traffic controllers work around the weather and keep more flights running on time. Raytheon is building those tools as part of the FAA's NextGen system. The tools aim to put pilots and air traffic controllers ahead of the weather, rather than responding to it. They would provide up to eight hours notice of a flight-jeopardizing weather system, buying controllers much-needed time to re-route and reschedule traffic accordingly. For example, a Miami-bound flight leaving from New York might now sit on the tarmac for hours if there's a storm over the mid-Atlantic. But an eight hour weather warning allows an air traffic controller to find a new flight path and get the wheels up on schedule. The technologies also will compile data profiles of each flight that include its GPS and radar location, its flight plan, and predicted congestion of the airspace. That information, along with real-time weather and traffic data, will help controllers move planes through the system more efficiently through re-routing and traffic flow management. The implications are huge: Inclement weather caused nearly half the flight delays in January and 63 percent in June, according to the Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration. Annually, delayed flights cost $40 billion a year, according to an estimate from the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Raytheon, with its long history of radar technology, will continue building tools to better manage the National Airspace System. Exelis is exhibiting a selection of global aviation solutions products that support operations at airport towers and terminal approach facilities. Exelis' products provide real-time situational awareness and capacity- demand predictions for airside and surface operations. Exelis Symphony is a suite of tools for real-time status, environmental/noise assessment, and surface resource planning. Symphony MobileVue now enables this capability on mobile devices with an Internet connection, like your phone or tablet. Exelis Osyris is the most deployed and proven AMAN/DMAN system in the world, with many new enhancements to airport surface management. Osyris provides scheduling, demand predictions, metering, what-if analysis, metrics reporting, etc. The user interface is optimized for ATC use, including ED109 certification. Osyris maximizes use of available capacity at airports and reduces controllers' workload by improving traffic flow and automatically sequencing arriving aircraft. In simple terms, the Central Flow Management (CFM) component manages airline requirements prior to takeoff to suit their business needs. CFM matches airlines' scheduling needs with capacity at the destination, and coordinates departure and arrival slots to minimize airborne delays. Prior to top of descent, the AMAN component calculates target landing times to ensure the most efficient speed and energy profiles for arriving aircraft. The Exelis Osyris AMAN system allocates an optimum standard arrival and approach profile for each aircraft, matched to that aircraft's performance. The profile is designated before the aircraft reaches top of descent, to ensure the optimum descent profile can be flown. This enables future capabilities to be integrated in the NAS today, like PBN RNP/RNAV procedures. The Exelis tools provide foundational capabilities to improve airport surface operations defined in the Surface CDM ConOps that will be implemented under the TFDM program. Osyris has been implemented for ANSPs around the globe with startling success in achieving efficiency benefits. NAVCANatm's feature this year at CFS is its NAVCANsuite integrated controller workstation, with a focus on our electronic flight strips component, NAVCANstrips. NAVCANstrips is an advanced tower, terminal, apron, and en route coordination system allowing controllers to manage electronic flight data online using touch- sensitive display screens. NAVCANatm will also exhibit NAVCANlink, the company's collaborative decision-making tool for airport operators, operational staff, and air carrier operational managers. NAVCANatm representatives will demonstrate how all the products can facilitate Remote Tower services. NAVCANatm's fully integrated suite of air traffic management tools is designed to innovate and simplify controller workstations by delivering mission critical air traffic control information. NAVCANatm's tools transform the tower environment, combining flight surveillance and operational data, making it safer and more efficient. NAVCANsuite tower automation products provide controllers with an integrated platform for surface management, electronic flight data exchange, departure sequencing and scheduling, surveillance data integration, and enhanced data exchange with external stakeholders. Platform-independent and developed on an open architecture, this system is highly adaptable to any working environment. Fully integrated with this suite is NAVCANlink, a collaborative tool offering a near real-time view of airport radar, traffic, weather, lighting, and navaid status – anywhere, anytime. NAVCANatm had a very positive experience last year at CFS and the feedback the company reps received was thoughtful and well-informed. Input to the systems from the operational controllers is valuable and their suggestions contribute to the improvement of the company's products. There is no conference more important for Thales than CFS. This venue allows Thales to reach the controller user community to engage with those who manage air traffic on a daily basis. Thales designs systems to help them manage traffic in all phases of flight safely and efficiently. Thales has been designing and manufacturing air traffic management solutions in the U.S. for more than 70 years. Thales has multiple U.S.-based teams from Overland Park, Kan., to Arlington, Va., to Clarksburg, Md. The U.S. organization is one of Thales ATM's centers of excellence for the design and development of air traffic management solutions. The U.S. team is proud to be the product design authority for the latest generation electronic flight data solution, often referred to as electronic flight strips. Thales is transitioning control towers from paper to fully integrated electronic environments. This U.S.- based team is fueling the success of the Thales air traffic management group. They are working on further improving the product to provide the maximum flexibility necessary to support the mission of our U.S. controllers when the FAA rolls out a NextGen tower system to nearly 90 towers in the next decade. Thales product development teams have senior air traffic operations professionals as part of the early definition, design, and development of mission-critical air traffic management solutions. They hire former ATCs and embed them with design teams in Europe and the U.S. These former controllers are critical to the company's success and have helped to tailor its automation platforms to meet the needs of the controllers who are using their systems worldwide. Thales provides air traffic management solutions in over 100 countries worldwide. More than 16,000 controllers rely on Thales systems each day to help them provide exceptional service to aviation stakeholders. The future of air traffic management is here. Air traffic and airport management technologies designed and built by Lockheed Martin facilitate thousands of journeys daily, helping billions of passengers arrive at their destinations safely and more efficiently than ever before. thank you Raytheon Lockheed Martin Exelis NAVCANatm Thales Geico ATCA SAIC General Dynamics SkyOne Credit Union Systems Atlanta New Bedford Panoramex Aireon Saab Sensis Long Term Care Partners, LLC Kim's Place OKC Unum/NATCA Board of Trustees ALPA TO ALL CFS SPONSORS: booth 312 • raytheon.com booth 313 • navcanatm.ca booth 306 • thalesgroup.com booth 300 • exelisinc.com booth 301 •lockheedmartin.com

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