JANS, the Air Navigation Service Provider, department of Japan Civil Aviation Bureau, signed the manufacture contract of the TEAM system (TEAM: Trajectory-based Enhanced Aviation Management system) with NTT DATA.(September 10, 2015)
　The TEAM system includes ATFM (Air Traffic Flow Management) function, ASM (Air Space Management) function and others.

　JANS has been operating the ATFM system and ASM system for the whole Fukuoka FIR.

　The current ATFM system activated in 1994, has mainly managed the traffic congestion around Tokyo metropolitan area (arrival and departure from HND and NRT airport), and it has also worked for international flow management and inflight traffic management.

　The current ASM activated in 2005, has managed airspace for both civil and military training use.

　This contract improves the performance of the present system. The new system is due to start operation in 2019.

　JANS is advancing introduction of the new FDP system which uses FO (Flight Object) simultaneously.
　When the TEAM system uses the FO, the high-precision air traffic management could be operated in Fukuoka FIR.

　“Tokyo Olympic Games is scheduled for 2020, the further increase in air traffic is expected. Making the flow of air traffic safely and efficiently is one of the most important mission for Air Traffic Control, so the TEAM system is expected to play an important role to solve the mission very much,” said Hitoshi ISHIZAKI, the Director General of JANS.

　“Towards Tokyo Olympic 2020, we are very delighted to take a responsibility to plan a main role to the development of trajectory based ATM system in Japan. As one of the leading global IT companies, we would like to pursue “Made in Japan Quality” being superior to Quality, Cost and Delivery in cooperation with the parties concerned, and contribute to enhancement of flight safety and air traffic service by the ATM system,” Shunichi TAKEUCHI, Senior Vice President, Head of Public Sector 1, NTT DATA corporation said.

　NTT DATA has also developed the PANADES (air space design system) which is distributed to several Asian ANSPs such as Myanmar, Vietnam, Thai, Lao PDR, and Indonesia.

　In Tokyo metropolitan area, the capacity of air traffic volume is approaching the limit. JANS is convinced that the improvement in functional of ATM system is essential to handle safely for the increasing air traffic volume.

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