FAAXX505: ERAM Enhancement and Sustainment
Investment ID: 021-435692236
Overview
Program Title
FAAXX505: ERAM Enhancement and Sustainment
Description
ERAM Enhancements and Technology Refreshment (E&TR) enhance ERAM system services. ERAM Sustainment is key to the FAA's ability to introduce improvements to the core ERAM system to improve its operational usability and refresh equipment that reached end-of-life. The ERAM Enhancement part of the program addresses software capability additions or improvements from NextGen initiatives. ERAM Enhancement and Sustainment programs have separate CIP lines starting with formulation.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Investment Detail
The ERAM E&TR investment is to provide critically needed tech refresh to components of the ERAM system that are at end-of-service-life and must be refreshed to maintain the reliability, availability and maintainability of the ERAM system within specification. The investment also provides high priority enhancements to the ERAM system to improve its operational suitability and user acceptance. ERAM Technology Refresh 2 will technology refresh ERAM equipment at end-of-life and must be refreshed to maintain the reliability, availability and maintainability of the ERAM system within specifications. The ERAM Enhancements 2 investment is aimed at deploying NextGen Operational Improvements such as improving the accuracy of trajectories and Conflict Probe to increase throughput in the NAS, improving flight plan trajectory modeling to ensure accurate automatic handoffs among sectors and improving information sharing and situation awareness between sector positions to increase NAS utilization efficiency. The ERAM Sustainment 3 (ES3) investment will technology refresh ERAM equipment at end-of-life and must be refreshed to maintain the reliability, availability and maintainability of the ERAM system within specifications.