The effective procurement, installation, optimisation and life-cycle management of Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) equipment is essential to the management of air traffic control operations. Choosing the right supplier or partner and maintaining networked equipment across large distances, and often across international borders, to support ATM safely, efficiently and cost effectively is a challenge to every ANSP.
NATS continuously improves its own CNS network to take advantage of emerging CNS technologies. A wide range of legacy and newly developed networks are configured and managed by NATS engineers with extensive technical skills borne of years of experience in the field.
NATS can help determine appropriate CNS strategies, taking into account every unique combination of user requirements, geographical terrain, meteorological conditions and international voice and data networks. The NATS approach is to consider not just the replacement of individual sub-systems, but to advise on the interoperability and performance of the operational system as a whole during the planning, vendor selection, purchase and installation stages.
CNS Consultancy
CNS Consultancy Services comprises:
- Network optimisation (CNS)
- Communications
- Navigation
- Surveillance
- CNS SME Resourcing
- Allocation of CNS Subject Matter Experts for multi-purpose use
- Safety Impact Assessment
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Training
CNS Systems Provision
- Project Management
- Requirements Capture
- Design of CNS systems and environments
- Installation of CNS system components
- Systems Integration with ATC environment
- Transition / Migration Planning and Execution
- Testing
- Optimisation
- Safety Impact Assessment
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Training
CNS Managed Services
- Ongoing management, adaptation, support & optimisation of
- CNS equipment providing some or all of the following:
- CNS engineers and technical advisors
- CNS equipment through established relationships with major vendors
- CNS training
