En Route Discrete Address Beacon System/Air Traffic Control (Build I) Technical Testing.

Tests of the Discrete Address Beacon System DABS in an air traffic control ATC en route National Airspace System NAS environment were conducted at the Federal Aviation Administration FAA Technical Center. These tests included 1 surveillance performance in the areas of track initiation, track continuity, and track swap and 2 surveillance related communication responses employing the Common International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO Data Interchange Network CIDIN protocol for Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System ATCRBS identification ID requests. Test results indicate that the en route DABSATC Build I software successfully processed DABS sensor surveillance information. Although analyzed on a limited basis, the transmission of surveillance related communication messages between the DABS sensor and the en route DABsATC Build I system is considered to operate as expected. It is concluded that the DABSATC en route Build I system accepts, processes, tracks, and displays DABS and ATCRBS surveillance data from one DABS and multiple ATCRBS sensors with no degradation to the baseline function of the NAS software system A3d2.4. Author