Honeywell released that they have been selected as one of the 15 industrial companies, Air Navigation Service Providers and Airports that joined Eurocontrol and the European Commission in the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management (ATM) Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU).
The SESAR JU represents the technology pillar of the Single European Sky, an initiative from the European Commission to reform the architecture of the European Air Traffic Management System.
Honeywell will contribute with more than 40 million Euros of effort to support the definition of key concepts of operation, develop technologies and demonstrate operational scenarios. The SESAR JU will manage the development phase, scheduled to run from now until 2013. Large-scale production and implementation of the new, globally harmonized and interoperable ATM system will be rolled out both during and following the development phase. The SESAR JU objectives are to improve capacity by three times, improve safety ten times, reduce ATM costs by 50% and reduce environmental impact by 10%.
