This technological solution will evolve the current iTEC platform architecture to support the virtual centre concept, by making use of state-of-the-art digital technologies, underlying architectural principles and taking advantage of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products to reduce development and implementation costs.

The objective is to allow the decoupling of ATM service provision from the infrastructure, leveraging on the existing iTEC collaboration through its partners and based on the agreed capability evolution roadmap, to ensure its full alignment with the EU ATM Master Plan. The platform evolution will eventually provide a consistent contribution to enhance safety, resilience and scalability of the ATM network, allowing a more flexible provision of ATM services. 

This technical evolution will enable the full implementation of target architecture defined in the European ATM Master Plan (Phase D) through the instantiation of concepts such as platform as a service (PaaS) ATM data service Provision and highest automation level. This project is proposing the implementation of the most architecturally significant changes defined in the iTEC V3 being already agreed by all iTEC partners.

The proposed activities to deliver this solution will address five different areas of the platform, enabling the digital transformation of the ATM service provision: 

- Middleware and communications

- Integration in PaaS

- Supervision evolution

- HMI evolution

- Recording evolution