As a member of the VERITAS consortium in cooperation with Think Research, UK and Aertec, Spain, ISA has been accepted as an Associate Partner of the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) to provide Validation support to on-going SESAR initiatives.

See the VERITAS press-release for more details.

New Point Merge arrival route system, developed by EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre, has been implemented in Oslo on 7/4/2011. This innovative controlling method applies P-RNAV technology and merges arrival flows in a more efficient and predictable way, while enhancing safety, reducing ATC workload and minimising environmental impact by enabling CDA. In Olso this provides a reduction in CO2 emissions by 300kg per flight and additional capacity allowing for future traffic growth without increasing overall emissions. Read more from the EEC news article.

ISA Software was contracted by EUROCONTROL in 2008-2009 to support the early phases of Point Merge concept validation activities and complement real-time simulations by modelling vectoring and Point Merge techniques using RAMS Plus fast-time ATM simulator. The study findings were presented in the 9th ATIO conference in September 2009.

ISA Software will participate in the 6th European Aeronautics Days, taking place from 30th March to 1st April in Madrid, continuing the company's tradition of active engagement with the research community as well as keeping abreast with the recent and future developments in the aviation field.

You can read more on the event from www.aerodays2011.org.

ISA Software is part of the EIS's winning team for the ASESS (Architectural and Systems Engineering Support Services) FAA contract awarded in September 2010. The ASESS contract has a one-year base period with six option years with a total estimated value of $393 million. The EIS Team will provide systems engineering support to the FAA's next generation (NEXTGEN) Traffic Flow Management programs. The EIS team includes SAIC, QinetiQ, UNITE, Safety Net Solutions (SNS), and ISA Software.

In August 2010, ISA Software joined the FAA's SSMT (System Safety Management Transformation) System Safety Assessment Program. ISA Software will be providing modeling & simulation services and human factors expertise to develop metrics and baseline processes for quantifying various aspects of safety, especially in the terminal approach area. These processes are designed to ultimately demonstrate the safety of proposed NextGen implementations.

ISA Software participated on the FAA's DataComm benefits analysis team, providing simulation and modeling services for DataComm Segment 1, specifically for benefits of providing revised departure clearances electronically instead of via voice. Detailed airport ground layouts, runway configurations, and SIDS/STARS procedures were developed and modeled using RAMS Plus for four airports, IAH, IAD, BWI, and DCA, each with a full 24-hour schedule, with controller voice/frequency usage modeled using the newly enhanced resource competition features in the tool.

The EC 7th framework TITAN project held it's Kick-off meeting in Madrid in December.
TITAN will analyse the aircraft 'turnaround' processes viewed as an integral part of the SESAR Business Trajectory, considering all the airside and landside processes that go into the turnaround segment as a set of interdependent complex systems.
ISA Software is one of 11 partners involved in the TITAN project and is responsible for the design and development of the TITAN model.
For more information see the TITAN Website.

The latest release (v2) of the CHILL/SIM-C platform was successfully demonstrated at the recent US Air Traffic Control Association Conference with our teammates at Lockheed Martin.

With a rich set of new modelling and analysis features, as well as the latest experimental Air Traffic Flow Management Decision Support Agents from Lockheed Martin's Transportation and Security Solutions air traffic management business, the platform was used to demonstrate System-wide and Regional Next-Generation Traffic Flow Management Concepts and potential solutions for User-oriented problem solving in the future US National Airspace System.