Global Air Traffic Management (GATM)
Abstract
Unfettered access to civil airspace is required for all Air Force (AF) platforms to perform their operational mission. To meet that requirement, this program funds the AF Life Cycle Management Center (LCMC) Aerospace Management Systems Division (AMSD), a designated AF Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) engineering services support activity. The AMSD provides expertise to the Air Staff, Major Command (MAJCOM), and platform program offices, manned and un-manned, on meeting civil CNS/ATM performance standards necessary to operate in the US National Airspace System (NAS) and international civil airspace. This centralized capability supplements the MAJCOMs and over 50 AF platform program offices with resident technical CNS/ATM expertise. The AMSD monitors and participates in government/industry technical forums responsible for international civil aviation standards for operations in sovereign airspace worldwide. AMSD analyzes civil developing standards and works to protect AF interest. Once documents are finalized, CNS/ATM experts identify specific technical and engineering criteria for AF stakeholders in Generic Performance Matrices (GPM). The Air Staff and MAJCOMs determine how the AF will address these civil standards for each platform to best perform the specific AF mission. When a material solution is required, CNS/ATM experts consider the platform design; and work with the platform program office to tailor the GPMs as needed to meet civil standards - saving time, reducing cost and risk. Once the integration and testing is completed, the AMSD verifies and validates that CNS/ATM performance meets the standards necessary to operate in civil airspace. This is an iterative process to address both changes in civil airspace standards and shifts in AF military operational requirements. The AMSD manages Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contracts for centralized procurement of CNS/ATM and Navigational Safety products. These contracts are used by platform programs across the AF and Department of Defense (DoD), other federal agencies and in support of foreign military sales; they provide the benefits of quantity cost savings, industry-unique warranty clauses and reduced contracting actions by platforms. The AMSD performs periodic audits on the processes and procedures used to develop and distribute the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF). This electronic navigation database, created by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), contains safety of flight critical information used by AF and DoD aircrews to fly instrument departure and arrival procedures worldwide. AMSD's unique expertise is recognized and accepted by the NGA, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AF, and other agencies which use the DAFIF database in airborne systems. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 0305099F_7_3600_PB_2015
- Change Summary Explanation
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
Related Documents
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- Child Accomplishment: Contract Support and Administration for DoD Avionics Equipment Catalog
- Child Accomplishment: Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) Management
- Child Accomplishment: Generic Performance Matrix (GPM) Development