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SFNP-OPS DEMO 1
DIP Hosts Workshop with Collins Aerospace at NASA/FAA North Texas Research Station (NTX), Fort Worth
November 29-30, 2023
The DIP team hosted Collins Aerospace at NASA’s NTX facility to discuss potential collaboration opportunities on the SFNP-Ops demo series. Collins Aerospace were briefed on the current SFNP-Ops 1 Collaborative Digital Departure Rerouting (CDDR) capability being demonstrated with FAA and airline partners in the north Texas area. A tour of the CDDR system in an operational environment was provided by American Airlines. Collins Aerospace also presented their air traffic management solution products in support of sustainable aviation. Follow-on meetings were planned to discuss technical details and a collaboration agreement.
DIP Meets with Honeywell to Discuss Potential Areas of Collaboration
December 8, 2023
The DIP team met with Honeywell’s Connected Flight Management System (cFMS) group to introduce NASA’s SFNP-Ops demonstrations. Honeywell gave an overview of the cFMS ecosystem and the communication data link between FMS, cloud, and ground stations. They also presented a list of cFMS/Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) use cases that they are interested in developing. The DIP team discussed potential areas of collaboration opportunities.
DIP Hosts Technical Interchange with the PANYNJ
January 18, 2024
The DIP team hosted a Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) at NTX. The purpose of the meeting was to demonstrate NASA’s CDDR capability, as well as to discuss challenges in the New York airspace flight operations and potential solutions that could be addressed by NASA’s airport surface predictive engine, which provides predictions of takeoff times based on surface and terminal boundary constraints using machine learning techniques.
DIP Concludes Houston Observations and Presents Next Phase to Stakeholders
January 24, 2024
At the end of 2023, the Houston airspace was chosen as the site for SFNO-Ops 1b. Ops-1a is ongoing in the north Texas area, where DFW and DAL are the two major airports, while Ops-1b will focus on Houston and aims to prove that the Collaborative Digital Departure Rerouting (CDDR) tool and the predictive engine, based on machine learning algorithms, can be scaled successfully in other airspaces than DFW and DAL. For the past 5 months, the DIP team has been sending team members into the air traffic management environment in Houston to observe how the air traffic in the airspace is operated. Observed facilities include: Houston Intercontinental ATC Tower, Houston Hobby ATC Tower, I90 Terminal Radar Control (TRACON), Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), and United Airlines’ Station Operation Center. On January 24th, the Houston stakeholders were briefed by Jeremy Coupe (NASA) on the teams’ observations and use cases that were identified to provide significant benefit in terms of operational efficiency and fuel and emissions reductions. The DIP team is now preparing for the next phase of the demonstration, which will be shadow testing the system in Houston.
DIP RECEIVES HONORS
DIP Awarded Engineering Team of the Year Award
December 9, 2023
The DIP team was awarded the 2023 AIAA San Francisco Section Engineering Team of the Year Award. The team received this award for their achievements in 2022 and 2023 for establishing partnerships with five major US airlines, and for successfully conducting field demonstration of a pre-departure aircraft rerouting model to achieve sustainability benefits (fuel and CO2 emissions savings). The AIAA San Francisco Section celebrated the team’s award during their annual banquet on December 9, 2023.
The DIP team thanks all its industry partners who continue to make this project a success!
Software Development
The DIP team rolled out public access to NASA services on the platform with the V1.7 software release. Public access will enable academic research groups and organizations supporting the aviation community to benefit from consuming NASA services such as Fuser, Traffic Management Initiatives (TMI), and Machine Learning based predictive services.
DIP team plans to roll out public access to NASA services!
DIP Releases Software V1.7
February 5, 2024
The DIP software team released a version 1.7 of the platform and services.
Platform Update
- Public access added to platform
- New sign-up pages and processes
- New News pages about Platform and Services updates
- Added capability to throttle data access for public users
SAMPLE ICONS FROM THE PLATFORM
NASA Services Update
- I90 Setup for Houston
- Convergence of models for D10, N90, and I90 TRACON airspaces
- CDDR now supports multiple sites for scheduler and data processing
- Ability to specify which Fuser fields to store in the fuser data used by various components
- Flight summary Data Services CDM and non- CDM v4.2.0
- TMI Summary Public SFTP v1.0.0 for the N90 and I90 airspaces
- Flight Summary CDM and Public SFTP v1.0.0 for the following airspaces:
- N90 – New York TRACON
- I90 – Houston TRACON
- LGA – LaGuardia Airport
- JFK – John F. Kennedy Int. Airport
- IAH – George Bush Intercontinental Airport
- HOU – Houston Hobby Airport
- EWR – Newark Liberty Int. Airport
SERVICE FEATURES
ADDITIONAL SERVICES INFORMATION
DIP Public Access
Publicly accessible data and services are now available on the Digital Information Platform (DIP) without the need for legal agreements. Prior to the public release of data and services, DIP engaged with partners who have Space Act Agreements (SAA) and Interconnection Security Agreements (ISA) with NASA; a requirement that significantly restricted the number of DIP users.
Public user requests will be evaluated, and users will be asked to answer a questionnaire during the account creation process to justify the need for data. Additionally, the number of services and the amount of data available for public access are limited. Access to the Platform is secured using the same authentication and authorization mechanisms as those for non-public accounts.
DIP Services: CDM vs Public
Many of the new services in release v1.7.0 have either a CDM or Public access level. The Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) is a group of government and industry partners who aims to improve air traffic flow management through increased data sharing within the aviation community. Certain CDM data elements are not available via public SWIM services, and therefore are restricted to CDM members. Current CDM data elements that are restricted are the flight’s beacon code, EOBT, EDCT, and parking gates. Except for these restricted data elements, NASA’s public and CDM services remain identical.
Flight Summary Data Services
The Flight Summary Data Service returns the predictions and resource data for flights that operated within +/-3 hours of a given timestamp for a given airport in the request. The data is a combination of flight information from NASA’s Fuser service as well as from machine learning model services available on the DIP platform. Flight summary data will be available starting the day after a flight has completed operating and requests will be limited to a maximum range of 12 hours.
Data reports are available from 2020-11-01 onward for the following airspace domains:
KDAL, KDFW, KHOU, KIAH, KEWR, KLGA, and KJFKThe TMI Summary REST Service
EVENTS AND MEDIA
Check out the DIP Website
The DIP website (https://nari.arc.nasa.gov/atmx-dip/) has been updated! Please follow the link to find new content like a link to the newsletters, overviews of each SNFP-Ops demo, and a Library of DIP-related publications and technical information.
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