ADS-B technology holds great promise for providing the U.S. Navy with a number of significant benefits. These benefits are derived from an improved tactical picture for both command and control personnel and pilots. They include improved safety through better situational awareness and reduced pilot workload, and improvements in tactics, techniques and procedures, such as higher confidence levels in the tactical picture that might allow engagement of the enemy without visual identification. Other benefits include time and resource efficiencies, collision avoidance, range clearance and compatibility with aircraft operating in the NAS and civil aircraft in foreign airspace. Globally, ADS-B holds the promise of being the core of a new global surveillance network, and the military should evaluate mission needs at this stage during the formative stages of ADS-B development and implementation. Rannoch has unique insight into the future of ADS-B. We actively support RTCA committees on ADS-B standards development. We have designed, manufactured, and deployed ADS-B equipment. Our rapid avionics prototyping capabilities as well as our tools and techniques enable us to assess the military effectiveness of ADS-B for the Navy. As new common avionics programs are being considered, it is time to start laying the groundwork for Navy ADS-B implementation. Anticipated
Benefits: Improved tactical picture; Reduction in misidentified targets; Reduction in False Replies Uncorrelated in Time (FRUIT) ; Reduction in overlapping (garbled) signals; Improved command and control in a military theater of operations ; Saves time and assets by reducing the number of missions required to identify unknown targets ; May enable the use of beyond visual range weapons; Improved situational awareness for controllers and pilots; Collision avoidance; Reduces pilot workload ; Range clearance; Compatibility with civil aircraft operating in NAS and foreign airspace. Commercial Applications: Provides enhanced radar coverage in areas that are below the sweep angle of conventional terminal or enroute radar antennas; Provides radar coverage for airports without conventional radar; Provides an inexpensive air traffic control radar system for countries that do not have a ground based radar infrastructure; Provides enhanced situational awareness to airport operations vehicles and airline support vehicles to help eliminate the growing problem of runway incursions; Improves airline gate operations, enabling the monitoring of all aircraft and vehicles in the gate area; Provides collision avoidance capabilities similar to TCAS, but sized and priced for smaller general aviation aircraft .
