DANUBE FAB IN A CONGRESS WALKING TOUR OF SESAR AT THE WORLD ATM CONGRESS IN MADRID

SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM) and SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) organized a congress walking tour at the World ATM Congress in Madrid. It gave visitors an opportunity to meet with experts from the SESAR community and to get acquainted with the activities that are being prepared and deployed in whole Europe.
The walking tours took place within the context of a sequence of activities, organized by European aviation partners on the theme “Europe for Aviation”. DANUBE FAB for a second consecutive year presented many of its key projects contributing to the transformation of Air Traffic Management (ATM).
BULATSA and ROMATSA experts showcased SESAR related projects, representing technological solutions in various areas of ATM deployment, such as optimizing the performance of air traffic System-Wide Information Management and Security.
The DANUBE FAB sequence of presentations in the SESAR Walking Tours started with an overview on the latest solutions related to the implementation of the Traffic Complexity Assessment Tool (tCAT) project in Sofia ACC. It was presented by Ivan Hassamski, who also informed about a tCAT Visitors’ Day planned to take place on 26 March 2019 at BULATSA premises in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The DANUBE FAB stand hosted three SESAR Walking Tours on the topics of System-Wide Information Management and Security.
Mihai Spiridonescu (ROMATSA) made a presentation focused on the stakeholder’s contribution to the procurement and deployment of NewPENS.
Florin Stoian (ROMATSA), supported by Patrick Mana (EUROCONTROL), showcased SWIM Common PKI and the policies and procedures for establishing a secure framework, which allows ANSPs, airspace users, military, airports, etc., to identify themselves and encrypt/decrypt information via digital certificates.
Daniela Vasileva (BULATSA) presented the successful implementation of a local Security Operation Center (SOC) at BULATSA within the framework of SESAR. The local SOC in BULATSA provides a platform for monitoring, analysis and control of system logs, network traffic, system files and management of incidents related to information security. The platform is a comprehensive solution providing reliable protection of BULATSA’s IT infrastructure against conventional and unconventional cyber-threats.