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Integrated Air Surveillance Concept of Operations
3 Description of Desired Operational Capabilities
Integrated air surveillance services must be able to detect, monitor, track, and identify all air
vehicles and atmospheric weather in and approaching the NAS. This capability will serve the
purposes of air traffic management, aviation safety, air security, air defense, and law
enforcement. As such, future integrated air surveillance services must meet growth in traffic
demand and ensure protection from an increasing number of potential threats. These services
include:
Reduced separation spacing and a move towards all weather visual-equivalent operations
to meet NextGen’s goal of increased capacity for civil aviation
An integrated User-Defined Operational Picture that provides capability to access flight
information for any track of interest, across all partner agencies, as applicable security
and need-to-know conditions permit
Accurate, comprehensive, and readily accessible preflight information (e.g., flight plan
intent, reliable pre-flight and in-flight risk assessments) that enables monitoring flight
path conformance and determination of bona fide risks to aviation security
Data from all surveillance sources, including cooperative and non-cooperative sensor
systems, will be accessible and made available/exposed for operational display and data
processing
Integration of surveillance information from multiple sources, including classified
systems, that provide real-time access to information needed to deter and prevent threats
before they enter United States airspace
Routine air traffic operations conducted in a manner that supports both increased air
traffic and increased flight safety
Key information exchanges automated and shared via the Net-Centric infrastructure,
where feasible
Implementation of NextGen key concept elements: management by trajectories, flight
objects, net-centric operations, and facilities transformation
Ability to integrate additional and emergent surveillance capabilities as they are
developed
Ability to integrate information from other domains such as maritime and land
Ability to incorporate information from non- United States sources
3.1 Operational Policies and Principles
Sections 2.3 and 2.4 discussed current operational and policy constraints that impede air
surveillance operations. Many of these will continue through the near-term and beyond.
Nonetheless, the United States must address them in order to bring about the changes needed to
achieve integrated air surveillance objectives. This section describes those changes.
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