DSNA
Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) is France's air navigation service provider, controlling air traffic in a safe, streamlined, rapid and environmentally-friendly manner. DSNA is committeed to the ecological transition of aviation to reduce its impact on air quality and noise exposure, and is pushing for greener initiatives to promote a more environmentally-friendly culture.
Florian Guillermet, Director General, DSNA
What is the added value of being a member of the SESAR 3 JU?
Being a member of SESAR 3 JU means being part of the European ATM family working together to build the future of ATM for more than a decade. DSNA has played a key role in SESAR 1 and SESAR 2020, and we now measure the significant changes that the SESAR 3 JU projects have already brought on the evolution of ATM and DSNA operations. DSNA will continue to play its role in SESAR 3 together with other European partners. Thus, it was paramount to renew its membership with the new SESAR 3 JU in 2021. It is also particularly important to be part of SESAR 3 JU governance, advising the joint undertaking at the level of the Programme Committee and being part of the decision process for the management of the SJU as a member of the Governing Board. DSNA is looking forward to remaining a key player in the definition of the work programme during the duration of the SESAR 3 JU.
Why is air traffic management and its digital transformation important to DSNA?
The digital transformation is happening in every domain including ATM, it has a significant potential to improve efficiency, resilience, safety and environmental performance thanks to wide information sharing, virtualisation, or the usage of technologies such as artificial intelligence.
With its new ATM system, 4Flight now deployed in Reims and Marseille ACCs, DSNA is moving towards digitalisation and intends to host new digital capabilities as required in the coming years by the Common Project 1 such as SWIM or initial 4D trajectory sharing ATM functionalities. Later on, more advanced digital SESAR solutions resulting from SESAR 2020 and SESAR 3 will reach industrialisation maturity level and will be integrated within ATM systems to provide enhanced performance to airspace users.
What are DSNA’s top three innovation priorities?
- Modernise our CNS & ATM systems and our infrastructure
- Provide green operations
- Improve dynamic airspace configuration
In which flagships of the Digital European Sky programme is DSNA particularly interested in getting involved, and why?
DSNA is interested in getting involved in most of the flagships of the Digital European Sky programme and particularly in:
- Aviation Green Deal: DSNA is already involved in a digital sky demonstrator project called HERON aiming at optimising aircraft trajectories, especially for Paris arrivals. In addition, DSNA is part of several proposals of the first SESAR industrial research call on aviation the Green Deal. One of the ambitions is to commonly develop a harmonised concept facilitating optimised trajectories with minimal constraints due to ATM.
- Connected and automated ATM: Use of 4D trajectory coupled with conflict detection and resolution tools has shown a high potential of ATC capacity and efficiency improvement in SESAR 2020 wave 2 projects. This is a component of the trajectory-based operations concept that really needs to move to industrialisation maturity level to provide capacity gain by the end of the decade.
- Capacity-on-demand and dynamic airspace: Building upon successful work in SESAR 2020, this flagship has also a high potential of improvement in capacity, environmental efficiency, and resilience.
