SBS Radios

Exelis FIS-B: Status & Future
Presentation for Friends & Partners in Aviation Weather 2014
Paul Freeman
July 22, 2014
Surveillance and Broadcast Services (SBS) Program
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Exelis SBS Overview
• Exelis is under contract with the FAA to design, deploy,
and operate the U.S. Surveillance & Broadcast Services
(SBS) infrastructure.
• SBS includes several major components:
> Automatic
>
>
>
>
Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B):
Receives air-to-ground aircraft traffic data on 2 frequency
bands & sends to Air Traffic Control.
Wide Area Multilateration (WAM): Performs ground-to-air
interrogation of aircraft transponders to determine aircraft
position & sends to Air Traffic Control.
Traffic Information System Broadcast (TIS-B): Transmits
ground-to-air traffic data on 2 frequency bands of of aircraft
not equipped with ADS-B.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance Rebroadcast (ADS-R):
Retransmits aircraft traffic data ground-to-air on the opposite
frequency band.
Flight Information System Broadcast (FIS-B): Transmits
ground-to-air data on UAT frequency band of weather &
aeronautical information products.
ADS-B
UAT
1090ES
Non-Equipped
Radio
Station
FIS-B
Provider
Control
Station
FAA
Surveillance of ADS-B equipped aircraft for Air Traffic Control and Aircraft Situational Awareness
TIS-B
UAT
1090ES
Non-Equipped
Radio
Station
FIS-B
Provider
Control
Station
FAA
Uplink of Surveillance Data of Non-ADSB equipped aircraft for Aircraft Situational Awareness
ADS-R
UAT
1090ES
Non-Equipped
Radio
Station
FIS-B
Provider
Control
Station
FAA
Cross-Linking of ADS-B data for Aircraft Situational Awareness
FIS-B
UAT
1090ES
Non-Equipped
Radio
Station
FIS-B
Provider
Control
Station
FAA
Uplink of Weather and other Flight Information for UAT Equipped Aircraft
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Exelis SBS System Discriminating Features
• The Exelis SBS System has passed a rigorous FAA Safety Case &
is certified & approved for use with 4 different automation
systems.
> Demonstrated to be safe.
• The Exelis SBS System has passed a rigorous Security
Certification & Accreditation inspection.
> Demonstrated to be secure.
• The Exelis SBS System is designed to be robust & scalable with
built in:
> Protections from Spoofing & Denial of Service attacks.
> Provisions for flexible distribution of data.
> Provisions to determine GPS local health status & usability.
• The Exelis SBS System has a robust overarching monitoring &
control solution.
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Exelis SBS Status
• Exelis SBS has completed the baseline deployment of over 600
SBS ground stations deployed across all 50 states, territories,
and the Gulf of Mexico.
> Deployment of additional radio stations to expand coverage is
ongoing
• Provides operational services to over 200 FAA facilities.
> System has passed FAA safety case.
> System has achieved security accreditation through independent audit
from FAA security office.
• Over 5 years of operational experience.
> Hundreds of man-years of data analysis verifying:
> Operational suitability of developed infrastructure for each FAA facility,
> Data anomalies associated with avionics installations,
> Identification of system errors including network routing, RF
interference, as well as anomalous delivery of data across the
operational network.
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Exelis SBS System High Level Architecture
UAT A/V
1090 ES A/V
ADS-B
Messages
ADS-B/TIS-B
Messages
ADS-B
Messages
ATCRBS/MODE S A/V
ADS-B/TIS-B Messages
FIS-B Message
Transponder
Replies
Radio Station Layout Provides RF
Coverage Over a Set of Service Volumes
Radio Station
Radio Station Segment
ATCRBS/Mode S
MLAT Interrogations
Radio Station MLAT Capable
Network Segment (MPLS)
NOC
Control
Stations
OCN
WSI FIS-B
Data Source
Control
Stations
WSI FIS-B
Backup
Control Segment
Network Segment (MPLS + Private Line)
ADS-B/Multilateration Reports
Service Status Reports
TIS-B and FIS-B Reports
FAA ATC Automation SDPs
Radar, WAM,
ASDE-X Data
SBS
FAA TIS-B Data SDP
FAA Service Monitor SDP
FAATC and FAAAC
Legend:
Radio
Network
Control
FAA
Weather
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600+ Exelis SBS Ground Stations
Deployed across 50 states, territories, and Gulf of Mexico
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A Typical Co-Located SBS radio site
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A Typical Airport SBS Radio Site
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SBS Oil Platform Installation – ATP Innovator
ADS-B Antennas
SBS Radios
AWOS
ITT Building Located
Inside
Surveillance and Broadcast Services
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SBS Monitoring Approach
• Hybrid combination of traditional trap collection & service
aware monitors
• Focuses on impact to services
• Scales to meet demands of large, nationwide system
• Identifies & assigns tickets to anomaly source asset
• Produces a manageable volume of actionable tickets
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Exelis SBS Network Operations Center, Herndon VA
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Situational Awareness Graphical Environment (SAGE)
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FIS-B Data Flow
Aircraft with
UAT FIS-B
receiver
Weather sensors
Weather data
SBS radio
station
(Exelis)
NWS
FIS-B products to
be uplinked by
specific radios
Weather data
Aeronautical
(non-Weather) data
FAA
FIS-B data
provider
(WSI)
FIS-B
product
data
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FIS-B server in
SBS Control
Station (Exelis)
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FIS-B Avionics & Displays
Avionics capable of receiving & displaying
FIS-B products range from
certified/installed units…
…through non-certified/portable units
costing only a few hundred dollars.
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Current FIS-B Products: Text Products
SBSS-Required SBSS-Required
Update
Transmission
Interval
Interval
Product
Description
METAR
Aviation Routine
Weather Report
SPECI
(METAR)
Unscheduled
Special Weather
Report
1 minute
(where
available), As
Available
otherwise
PIREP
Pilot Reports
As Available
TAF /
AMEND
Terminal
Aeronautical
Forecast
8 Hours
Wind &
Computer-prepared
Temperatur forecasts of winds &
e Aloft
temperatures aloft
WSI’s Data
Source
5 minutes
NOAAport,
FAA AIDAP
10 minutes
12 Hours
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Current FIS-B Products: Text/Graphic Products
Product
AIRMET
Convective
SIGMET
SIGMET
NOTAM-D
NOTAMFDC
SUA Status
Description
SBSS-Required
Update Interval
Airman’s Meteorological
Information: mountain
As Available
obscuration, icing, or
turbulence
Convective Significant
Meteorological Information:
As Available,
severe, extensive, or
then at 15
prolonged thunderstorm
minute intervals
Significant Meteorological
for 1 hour
Information: turbulence,
icing, or IMC conditions.
Distant Notice To Airmen:
Information requires wide
dissemination
As Available
Flight Data Center Notice To
Airmen: Information that is
regulatory
Special Use Airspace
status
As Available
SBSS-Required
Transmission
Interval
WSI’s Data
Source
5 minutes
NOAAport,
FAA AIDAP
10 minutes
Text: FAA
AIDAP.
Graphic:
NAIMES
NIWS
10 minutes
FAA SUA
Gateway
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Current FIS-B Products: Graphic Products
Product
Description
SBSSWSI’s Data
SBSS-Required
Required
Update Interval Transmission
Source
Interval
Contiguous
United States
CONUS
Next
NEXRAD
Generation
Radar
~5 minutes
NOAAport,
(10 minutes
15 minutes
NWS
for clear air
Central
mode)
Weather
Service for
~5 minutes
Regional Next
single-site
Regional
(10 minutes
Generation
2.5 minutes NEXRAD
NEXRAD
for clear air
Radar
mode)
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Path Forward:
Potential FIS-B Improvements & Additional FIS-B Products
• Potential new products which could be added to FIS-B
include:
> Lightning
> Turbulence NOWcast
> Icing NOWcast
> Cloud Top Heights
> One-Minute Airport Observations (OMO)
> D-ATIS
> NTSB: CWA and MWA products
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Questions?
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Thank you for the opportunity to present
at Friends & Partners in Aviation Weather 2014!
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