Project description
Overcoming innovative ATM system vulnerabilities
ATM-EXCITE is an exploratory-research project aimed at improving civil-military aviation coordination and enhancing the security and efficiency of air traffic management (ATM) systems. By closely collaborating with stakeholders, it identifies specific needs and develops tailored solutions to address challenges such as cybersecurity vulnerabilities, digitalisation of airspace management, and optimisation of mission trajectory management. To protect sensitive military operations and real-time flight data, the EU-funded ATM-EXCITE project implements robust security measures and encryption techniques. It also focuses on digitising airspace management processes and developing innovative approaches to optimise mission trajectories. By aligning with the European ATM Master Plan and fostering collaboration between civil and military aviation, ATM-EXCITE aims to create integrated solutions that improve the performance and security of European airspace.
Objective
The ATM-EXCITE project will identify the requirements of ATM systems for civil-military aviation coordination and cybersecurity and develop a set of solutions. The project will engage with stakeholders throughout the solution development phase to ensure that the proposed solutions meet their needs.
By engaging with stakeholders and using a rigorous approach to solution development, the project team is confident that it will develop effective and implementable solutions to the challenges of civil-military aviation coordination and cybersecurity. Once the requirements have been identified, the project team will design, develop, and test proposed solutions using a variety of approaches, including system design, software development, and cybersecurity testing. The project team will design system architectures for the proposed solutions. The system architectures will take into account the requirements of ATM systems, cybersecurity best practices, and operational constraints.
The SESAR ER call explicitly emphasizes the need for enhanced security, confidentiality, and anonymisation in the realm of military aviation data. The call also draws attention to the vulnerabilities associated with real-time airborne position data. Our proposed solutions aim to directly address these vulnerabilities by introducing methods for verification of ADS-B data and selective encryption and model the interaction between civil and military systems in an efficient manner.
This strategic alignment ensures that the solutions directly impact the priorities outlined in the European ATM Master Plan, further promoting the harmonisation of civil and military aviation in the European sky. Within the work areas of improved security of military operations and digitalisation for Airspace Management (ASM) and mission trajectory management (MTM), ATM-EXCITE proposes 5 research solutions.
In a second phase ATM-EXCITE will identify synergies among them in order to propose one or several integrated solutions.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- social sciencessocial geographytransporttransport planningair traffic management
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer security
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
28001 Madrid
Spain