“Civil military coordination via EUROCONTROL has never been more important”, said EUROCONTROL’s Head of Civil Military Cooperation Major General Karsten Stoye, once again underscoring how strong cooperation and coordination are essential on all topics affecting European aviation, in order to avoid adverse impacts on national and collective defence capabilities.
On the technological side, key topics discussed were impacts on the military related to the ongoing modernisation of ATM, including the new set-up for the SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM), CEF Call 2022, developments in system-wide information management (SWIM), and a series of core technical issues that need to be tackled such as integration of military trajectory data with dedicated solutions, practical aspects of collaborative decision-making, the potential use of Dynamic Mobile Areas in airspace, and the military requirements (ops, tech & safety) that need to be met to allow iOAT flight plans to be processed by the EUROCONTROL Network Manager’s systems.