Given various aircraft types and avionics suites how is interoperability assured?
The CASCADE Programme will produce interoperability specifications developed and published by RTCA/EUROCAE, which are based on the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) published by ICAO. These requirements are validated during prototyping, demonstration and pre-operational trials involving various stakeholders. The outcome of these activities will guarantee that different implementations which comply with these specifications will interoperate. The implementations of the CASCADE Applications will need to demonstrate that they comply with the specifications. Means to demonstrate compliance include interoperability testing, trials or conformance testing. Given that the airborne implementations will be validated to comply with the referenced specifications, there is a high level of confidence that they will interoperate with validated ground systems around the world. The following applications will be in Stream 1: – ATC surveillance in a radar environment (ADS-B-RAD) – ATC Surveill
