FAA´s design approach to a global data link system

This paper describes three key features of the design approach that the FAA has chosen to achieve the vision for a global data link system. Although the FAA´s overall system design is committed to change and evolution, there are, nevertheless, certain features of the approach which are relatively fixed. We have called this the structure of FAA´s design approach. These relatively fixed features are (1) evolutionary data link improvement, (2) extensive use of end-to-end, high fidelity simulation, and (3) a coherently integrated system design