ANSPs teams up with Eurocontrol

The A6 Alliance of Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) and EUROCONTROL are working together on defining a major piece of communications infrastructure required to underpin the European Commission’s Single European Sky initiative. The two organisations are collaborating to define the provision of the New Pan-European Network Services (NewPENS). NewPENS is the pan-European ground-to-ground network infrastructure used for both voice and data communications between ANSPs; and the enabler for iSWIM, mandated by the Pilot Common Project (PCP) as ATM Function 5. NewPENS will transport the data from the Network Manager and EUROCONTROL Centralised Services to all ATM Stakeholders from EUROCONTROL Member