Supporting the Aviation Applied Technology DirectorateÕs (AATD) Rotorcraft PilotÕs Associate Advanced Technology Demonstration Program, the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) demonstrated that formation of a Common Tactical Picture (CTP) from onboard and offboard sensors, via data fusion, was essential to automated decision aiding. In this case, the CTP was formed solely by ...

Trade-offs occur frequently within sociotechnical systems and allow the system to maintain its output in the face of the variable performance of its constituent components. Trade-offs also occur between systems that must interact with each other. Some of these intersystemic tradeoffs may threaten the integrity of one or both systems particularly if the allowable magnitude of the trade-off is no...

Zheng Wang 1,*, Bochen Liu 1, Yue Zhang 1, Ming Cheng 1, Kai Chu 1 and Liang Xu 2 1 School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China; [email protected] (B.L.); [email protected] (Y.Z.); [email protected] (M.C.); [email protected] (K.C.) 2 Aviation Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Aerospace Electromechanical System Integration, No. 33 Shuige Road, Jiang...

Organizational safety culture has been a focus of research in sociotechnical systems, such as civil aviation, as organizational factors have been increasingly noted as contributory to accidents. The aim of the present study was to validate the Commercial Aviation Safety Survey (CASS), developed at the University of Illinois, in the context of Chinese flight operations. Two specific goals of thi...

The Federal Aviation Administration is leading the National Airspace System modernization effort, in part, by supplanting traditional air traffic services with the Global Positioning System (GPS) aided by the Wide and Local Area Augmentation Systems (WAAS & LAAS). Making GPS the primary-means of navigation will enhance safety, flexibility and efficiency of operations for all aircraft ranging fr...