Joint network enabled operations Spiral 1 activities

This paper describes the activities and direction of Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions and Boeing Air Traffic Management for Spiral 1 of the Network Enabled Operations (NEO) project. NEO Spiral 1 is a continuation of the initial 9 month NEO Spiral 0 demonstration effort that was completed in 2005. In Spiral 0, airspace objects such as tracks and pointouts and alert messages such as the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) alerts were published and shared among various terminal, en route and security airspace systems using elements of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation. One of NEO´s objectives was to move from the current manual collaboration amongst Agencies using Stand-Alone Processor and Display Systems to an automated network-centric implementation. In Spiral 1, additional collaboration systems, command & control (C2) systems and systems representing the airline operations centers (AOCs) have been added. In addition to the systems and industry partners added to the NEO project, additional data has been included. Additional data types include weather products, area and geographical volumes of interest and collaboration exchanges such as Chat and display sharing. These data elements will improve the visibility of objects of interest for improved collaboration and situation awareness amongst the various agencies involved in airspace security and protection.