Traffic Flow Management System

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Traffic Flow Management System
Traffic Flow Management Modernization Under the
Traffic Flow Management-Modernization (TFM-M)
contract, CSC is building the Traffic Flow
Management System (TFMS) which will replace the
current Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS)
initially developed in the 1980s. ETMS is the
principle component of the TFM infrastructure
used by the FAA and NAS stakeholders to predict
demand, identify constraints, mitigate delays and
maintain common situation awareness. ETMS is
used by the Air Traffic Control System Command
Center (ATCSCC), Air Route Traffic Control
Centers (ARTCCs), Terminal Radar Approach Control
(TRACON) field sites, Towers, FAA field offices,
as well as other government and military
agencies, airline operation centers, the general
aviation community and international partners.
TFMS is based on an open architecture platform
supporting the integration of TFM subsystems,
facilitating integration with other domains, and
supporting responses to new initiatives. In
addition to improving development bandwidth, TFMS
establishes a platform that is sustainable and
scalable for the next decade and beyond.

• Benefits
• Flexibility for Future Growth TFMS provides a
  modern software architecture to meet future
  growth and support complex capabilities.
• Enables the FAA to respond more quickly to
  changes in traffic management strategies
• Continuous growth in the use of the NAS
  necessitates scalability, improved data
  interfaces, improved security features and
  business process optimization

For more information contact Kathy Koerner,
DirectorTFMS 703-921-3261
TFMS Service Oriented Architecture
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• Advanced Technology System Integration
• With experience in approaches developed for
  commercial use and proven in the Federal market,
  CSC is capitalizing on advances in system
  integration technology for TFMS.
• TFMS employs a Service Oriented Architecture
  (SOA) based on systems technologies that include
  business process management, portals, XML-based
  messaging, improved business rules execution, a
  relational database, and reporting tools. The
  modernized TFMS infrastructure will adhere to
  open industry-driven standards such as the Java
  2-Enterprise Edition (J2EE) suite and eXtensible
  Markup Language (XML).
• Modular services minimize the impact of changes
  to the NAS by avoidance of internal function
  tangling. TFMS accomplishes this by isolating
  interfaces from processing components (including
  system-to-system interfaces and human-computer
  interfaces), isolating data management from
  processing, and modularizing processing in
  subsystems.
• Leverage Lessons Learned
• The Traffic Flow Management System builds upon
  lessons learned from ETMS and provides a modern,
  state of the art technology for a scalable,
  flexible, and open infrastructure to support the
  evolving and expanding NAS. New capabilities to
  be addressed once the modernization of
  infrastructure is complete include improved
  airspace management via more precise application
  of initiatives, augmented data interfaces with
  NAS systems to improve predictions, improved
  assessment capabilities by allowing reroute
  modeling which includes user preferences, and
  improved performance measures which will provide
  feedback for overall process improvement.
  Modernized TFMS components will support all of
  these initiatives, and set the stage for the
  future.
• Experience. Results.
• TFMS provides a modern software architecture to
  meet future growth and support complex
  capabilities not possible with the legacy system,
  e.g., modeling the effects of candidate Traffic
  Management Initiatives (TMI) on the National Air
  Space (NAS) to help ensure the selection and
  execution of the most efficient and equitable
  alternative (see FAA Flight Plan Objective 2
  Increase reliability and on-time performance of
  scheduled carriers).
• TFMS enables the FAA to respond more quickly to
  changes in traffic management strategies. For
  example, many operational procedures are based on
  existing patterns of airspace use. With the
  rapidly changing approaches to air traffic cost
  improvement being developed by the airlines
  (regional jets, etc.),

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• the ability to rapidly adapt the traffic analysis
  and flow management has become critical.
  Representing these operations with
  computer-orchestrated services facilitates
  controlled incremental
• change.
• Continuous growth in the use of the NAS
  necessitates scalability, improved data
  interfaces, improved security features and
  business process optimization. TFMS will support
  and encourage enhancements and improvements,
  utilizing a scalable, state-of-the-art service
  based architecture to allow for optimized change
  and growth. TFMS will also support research and
  technology prototyping, facilitated by the
  modernized infrastructure.