News Archive
4.03.2010
First Bemosa Technical Meeting organized by Deep Blue
The 8th, the 9th and 10th of March , Deep Blue organizes the first Bemosa Technical Meeting.
The meeting will be host in Rome and it will be attended by all the partners.
The ethnographic studies will be the main theme of the meeting. The Technion, as project coordinator, will present the basics of the ethnographic studies and the examples of application of these techniques to the airport environment. An ethnographic simulation is scheduled and will be performed in a realistic setting in the city center of Rome.
1.02.2010
New telephone numbers
Deep Blue has changed its telephone numbers.
The new numbers are:
Phone: +39 06 85 55 208
Fax: + 39 06 85 58 988
31.01.2010
Modelling human behaviour in airport critical situations: launched BEMOSA project
The “Behavioral Modeling for Security in Airports” (BEMOSA) project started in September 2009 with the Kick-off Meeting held at Haifa (Israel) at Technion premises. BEMOSA is a collaborative project funded under the 7FP, dedicated to develop a dynamic and realistic model of social behaviour and security decision making during security threats in airports. Deep Blue contributes to the definition of the behavioural model and, with human factors expertise, in planning and running validation exercises. Deep Blue is responsible of the WP devoted to the design and implementation of the training activities supported by the behavioural modelling tool.
14.12.2009
TMA2010+ Validation South Successful RTS2 and Open Day
The second large scale Real-Time Simulation of TMA2010+ Validation South was successfully held at ENAV Experimental Centre, Rome, Italy, from 23 November 2009 to 04 December 2009. The key elements under evaluation were the further investigation in using the Point Merge System [new arrival routes to Fiumicino airport based on P-RNAV - Precision Area Navigation procedures – with Continuous Descent Approaches], the integration between the Point Merge System and the AMAN [arrival management] system. Two different types of AMAN were assessed. The first AMAN provided indications in terms of advisories [Time to Loose, Time to Gain]. The second AMAN provided resolutions [Speed Advisories and Top of Descent Time].
An audience of about 40 persons attended the Open Day, held on December 04th. Participants were from EUROCONTROL, ENAV, Alitalia, industry and both national and international research laboratories and institutes.
DeepBlue is responsible for the organisation and conduct of the validation activities during the simulation, as well as for the analysis of the results and the provision of the report.
30.11.2009
FASTI South project Real-Time Simulation
The first Real-Time Simulation of the FASTI South project was successfully held at the ENAV Centre for Simulation and Research, Rome, Italy, 2-13 November 2009.
The other project partners are EUROCONTROL, SELEX SI as the industrial partner, ENAV and MATS as pioneer ANSPs.For the RTS1, SELEX SI delivered an experimental platform with MTCD (Medium Term Conflict Detection), MONA(Monitoring Aids) and SYSCO (System Supported Coordination) installed.
Deep Blue is responsible for the planning and management of the validation activities during the simulation, as well as for the analysis of how FASTI tools (and the associated working methods) impact on the traffic management.
25.11.2009
IP Project Launched
The new 'All Condition Operations and Innovative Cockpit Infrastructure' project (ALICIA) started in September 2009 with the Kick-off Meeting held at AgustaWestland premises.
ALICIA is funded under the 7FP. Deep Blue contributes with human factors, validation and dissemination expertise as the leader of the work package on Standardisation, Dissemination and Exploitation and as strong contributor of the project dissemination.
More details will follow soon on the ALICIA project web site .
23.11.2009
New Eurostars Project!
The new 'Adaptive Routing and Conflict Management for Unmanned Aricraft Vehicles' (ARCA) project started in November with the Kick-off Meeting held in Deep Blue premises.
ARCA is funded under the SME dedicated EU Programme Eurostars (http://www.eurostars-eureka.eu/).
Deep Blue is project coordinator and in charge of the design and development of an innovative algorithm for conflict detection and resolution to be implemented on UAVs.
More details will follow soon on the ARCA project page!
22.09.2009
SecureChange ATM Workshop
The 9th and 10th of September, Deep Blue organized a workshop about the ATM case study proposed in SecureChange. The primary goal of the Workshop was to present the case study in details to the other partners and finalize the scenarios which will be studied and assessed later on in the project. As part of the workshop, the participants visited ENAV SpA, the Italian company for Air Navigation Services, CNS/ATM Experimental Center (ECEC). Here ENAV's experts explained the setup of a Controller Working Position (CWP) and how the whole system (including hardware, software, procedures and organizational roles) will change with the introduction of the Queue managers. After a short presentation, a live demo was showed with similar equipments that are used nowadays in real Area Control Centers (ACC). Furthermore, the SecureChange participants could try out the system acting as a real controller. Finally, ENAV staff answered questions about the security aspects of the possible changes introduced in the system by the queue managers, and helped to direct the future work of the project.
1.07.2009
Creating a Security Engineering Manifesto
Current practices for developing secure systems are still closer to art than to an engineering discipline.
Security is still treated as an add-on and is therefore not integrated into software development practices and tools. Today, the current trend towards distributed and open systems has revealed the important limitations of current threat-based security engineering approaches. The SERENITY integrated engineering processes could be the backbone of a new security engineering discipline.Deep Blue and the SERENITY CONSORTIUM want to support the creation of a "Security Engineering Manifesto" advocating the establishment of Security as an Engineering discipline and the production of a new "Security Engineering BOK (Body of Knowledge)" that provides a map of techniques, methodologies and tools along with their relation and their role in the new security engineering processes.
13.05.2009
New FP7 projects!
ALICIA and BEMOSA are Deep Blue new FP7 projects which will start soon. They were both presented under the FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1 call (2° call of Transport).
ALICIA - All Condition Operations and Innovative Cockpit Infrastructure. Alicia is a 4 years Integrated Project. Deep Blue's role in Alicia will cover areas such as human factors, validation, dissemination.
BEMOSA - Behavioural Modelling for Security in Air Transport. Bemosa is a 3 years STREP. Deep Blue's role in Bemosa will cover areas such as human factors, validation, training, dissemination.
You will read more details once the projects will start.