A civil-military workshop recently identified the key issues to be addressed in order to ensure civil-military datalink interoperability in the future air traffic management system.
The workshop, concluded that if interoperability is to be ensured, security constraints, information modeling, spectrum interference, military operational and technical requirements and the financial impact of SESAR all need to be addressed as a priority.  The importance of initiating studies analyzing the opportunities and constraints of the reuse of existing and planned military capabilities is also seen as important. “To find jointly acceptable solutions, we need to ensure that the military authorities are fully involved in the SESAR development phase,” said Jean-Robert Cazarré, director of civil-military ATM coordination at EUROCONTROL. In the longer term, interoperability and the convergence of civil and military technologies supporting data-link is the only real way forward.”