Honeywell Selected as Member of SESAR

Honeywell Engaged in Developing Next Generation of Global Air Traffic Management Technology for European Air Traffic Management System

BRUSSELS, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced 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).

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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 is proud to 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%.

“Honeywell is proud to be chosen as a partner in the modernization of the European Air Traffic Management System,” said Paolo Carmassi, EMEAI president, Honeywell Aerospace. “Honeywell’s broad technology base will allow us to work closely with our European counterparts as we look for new ways to make global flight more efficient while increasing safety.”

Honeywell was chosen because of the breadth of equipment that is installed in all categories of airplanes that fly around the world and for their active ATM research and development program.

“Honeywell is developing several new technologies we want to share with the SESAR JU members that we believe will benefit all global aviation operators and can help to modernize air traffic control systems around the world,” Carmassi said.

Technologies being developed in Europe from France and the Czech Republic include:

• 4D trajectory, the corner stone of the SESAR concept, allowing airplanes to use the most efficient route by flying a precise and predictable trajectory shared by all ATM actors
• System Wide Information Management (SWIM), which will support collaborative decision-making processes using efficient communication applications to exploit the power of shared information
• Airborne Separation Assurance System operational concepts, which enable aircraft to accurately maintain a safe distance to other traffic and optimize traffic flow
• Communication, navigation and surveillance avionics, which will enable pilots to select flight paths for optimal speed, fuel conservation and turbulence avoidance, increasing the level of efficiency and safety of future flight operations
• Enhanced Synthetic Vision Systems, which provide pilots greater situational awareness under poor visibility conditions

Europe’s air space is nearing capacity, and the demand for flights is estimated to double by 2030. The new system is expected to be completely operational by 2020 and replace the existing radar-based system, which was developed during World War II. Honeywell is also participating on research and development of air traffic modernization studies in the United States, Australia and China.

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