The description of the concept (previous step), when agreed with the users and stakeholders, must go one level down and be refined and formalized to “move from the operational side to the engineering side”.

ADV Systems defines operational and technical requirements for ATM systems and equipment, supported by information management techniques, which enable them to be expressed and organized in a way that is unequivocal, standard, clear and synthetic.

• On many occasions, ADV demonstrated their ability to produce different classes of requirements depending on their attributes e.g. user, operational, functional and system requirements, service requirements, quality of service and performance requirements etc.
• ADV Systems is also acquainted with the cross-reference of the requirements, thanks to the creation of traceability matrices which show the hierarchy levels (family tree), the dependences and influences (unilateral or bilateral) between requirements. This step is crucial to perform impact analyses.

Our expertise has been notably recognised by major European bodies, such as EUROCONTROL and the European Commission, for instance to deliver the documentation relative to the operational and functional requirements for A-SMGCS levels 1 and 2.

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