Air navigation service providers Direction de Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) and ENAV, along with industrial partners Leonardo and Thales, have bolstered their commitment to Coflight, a new-generation flight data processing system.

The parties decided to bolster their cooperation to promote Coflight in Europe by the establishment of a long-term support and maintenance services contract.

This six year-contract will cover all activities required for corrective and evolutionary maintenance such as studies, design, software development and associated services.

"The parties decided to bolster their cooperation to promote Coflight in Europe by the establishment of a long-term support and maintenance services contract."

This marks a major step to their further technical and commercial collaboration to jointly promote innovative schemes for steering Coflight evolution and sharing cost with other air navigation service providers in Europe.

Designed to meet the Single European Sky and SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) programme objectives, Coflight offers advanced functions such as 4D trajectory predictions, interoperability with other systems and datalink capabilities, supporting current and future operational concepts.

It provides an open architecture and standardised middleware to guarantee the long-term upgradability and scalability of the product, as well as considers future services from SESAR.

DSNA handled three million flights last year.