Concept of operations

About: Concept of operations is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 964 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6845 citations. The topic is also known as: CONOPS.

Performance-based Air Traffic Management: Evaluation of En Route Benefits

Abstract: The Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) has developed a concept of operations to communicate the key operating principles and characteristics of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The goals for NextGen are aimed at significantly increasing the capacity, safety, efficiency, and security of air transportation operations and through doing so, improve the overall economic well being of the country. These benefits are achieved through a combination of new procedures and advances in the technology deployed to manage passenger, air cargo, and air traffic operations. In many cases, this vision and plan builds on work done by international aviation organizations that represent a globally harmonized set of concepts for the future. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) strategy will evolve operations toward NextGen in a way that integrates proven technologies, can be scaled for the future, and couples advanced ground automation systems and advanced aircraft capabilities. MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (MITRE/CAASD) has developed Performance-based Air Traffic Management (ATM) as a significant step toward NextGen, while meeting the FAA’s need for capacity and productivity benefits. Performance-based ATM integrates advanced capabilities that will provide vastly improved surveillance, navigation, data communications, and automation for ground and airborne systems with changes in service provider roles and responsibilities. During 2006 and 2007, Performance-based ATM evaluations produced a concrete assessment of benefits, relative to the current en route ATC environment. Highfidelity simulations of today's automation environment were contrasted with an advanced future environment in which Performance-based ATM—a combination of various available technologies and new procedures—will be used. The methods and results of the Performance-based ATM evaluations of 2006 and 2007 are presented here.

Provenance Capture and Use: A Practical Guide

Abstract: There is a widespread recognition across MITRE’s sponsors of the importance of capturing the provenance of information (sometimes called lineage or pedigree) However, the technology for supporting capture and usage of provenance is relatively immature While there has been much research, few commercial capabilities exist In addition, there is neither a commonly understood concept of operations nor established best practices for how to capture and use provenance information in a consistent and principled way This document captures lessons learned from the IM-PLUS project, which is prototyping a provenance capability that synthesizes prior research; the project is also applying the prototype to government application scenarios spanning defense, homeland security, and bio-surveillance We describe desirable features of a provenance capability and trade-offs among alternate provenance approaches The target audience is systems engineers and information architects advising our sponsors on how to improve their information management

Concept of Operations for Integrating Commercial Supersonic Transport Aircraft into the National Airspace System

Abstract: Several businesses and government agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are currently working on solving key technological barriers that must be overcome in order to realize the vision of low-boom supersonic flights conducted over land However, once these challenges are met, the manner in which this class of aircraft is integrated in the National Airspace System may become a potential constraint due to the significant environmental, efficiency, and economic repercussions that their integration may cause This document was developed to create a path for research and development that exposes the benefits and barriers of seamlessly integrating a class of CSTs into the NAS, while also serving as a Concept of Operations (ConOps) which posits a mid- to far-term solution (2025-2035) concept for best integrating CST into the NAS Background research regarding historic supersonic operations in the National Airspace System, assumptions about design aspects and equipage of commercial supersonic transport (CST) aircraft, assumptions concerning the operational environment are described in this document Results of a simulation experiment to investigate the interactions between CST aircraft and modern-day air traffic are disseminated and are used to generate scenarios for CST operations Finally, technology needs to realize these operational scenarios are discussed

Toward a Concept of Operations for Aviation Weather Information Implementation in the Evolving National Airspace System

Abstract: The capacity of the National Airspace System is being stressed due to the limits of current technologies. Because of this, the FAA and NASA are working to develop new technologies to increase the system's capacity which enhancing safety. Adverse weather has been determined to be a major factor in aircraft accidents and fatalities and the FAA and NASA have developed programs to improve aviation weather information technologies and communications for system users The Aviation Weather Information Element of the Weather Accident Prevention Project of NASA's Aviation Safety Program is currently working to develop these technologies in coordination with the FAA and industry. This paper sets forth a theoretical approach to implement these new technologies while addressing the National Airspace System (NAS) as an evolving system with Weather Information as one of its subSystems. With this approach in place, system users will be able to acquire the type of weather information that is needed based upon the type of decision-making situation and condition that is encountered. The theoretical approach addressed in this paper takes the form of a model for weather information implementation. This model addresses the use of weather information in three decision-making situations, based upon the system user's operational perspective. The model also addresses two decision-making conditions, which are based upon the need for collaboration due to the level of support offered by the weather information provided by each new product or technology. The model is proposed for use in weather information implementation in order to provide a systems approach to the NAS. Enhancements to the NAS collaborative decision-making capabilities are also suggested.

Designing 4-D trajectories for super-dense operations given weather constraints

Abstract: For the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS), we present trajectory design guidelines focusing on dynamic weather avoidance routing in transition airspaces -within 200 nmi of an airport or a set of metroplex airports. Assuming a Net-Centric Operation (NCO) that provides a mechanism to inform all users of hazardous weather constraints and weather avoidance routing requirements, the NGATS can move away from static jet route routing toward a system in which routes are defined dynamically in four dimensions (4D), and adjusted during the course of the day as required by traffic demand and the geometry of severe weather constraints. Such an operational concept will be particularly useful for time periods for which weather is a major constraint to terminal area operations, and when Super-Dense Operations (SDO) are thus required to maintain a high throughput. This paper describes both a Concept of Operations (ConOps) for using 4D trajectories to establish SDO in NGATS and an approach to designing 4D trajectories.