Digital Tower Solutions for Defense USA

The Digital Tower is a scalable solution and customizable design based on Air Traffic Control (ATC) Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and mission requirements. By replacing the "out-of-the-window" view with a visualization system at a remote site, we not only increase situational awareness through enhanced visibility; we also increase safety in military air traffic control (MilATC) by allowing military controllers to execute their missions from a remote, secure location.  Additionally, the operationally proven and tested controller working positions ensure safe management of air traffic, while a variety of sensors, cameras and surveillance options increase controllers’ operational view during mission execution.

Digital Tower technology significantly reduces costs by eliminating the need for an expensive physical tower, including maintenance. Digital Tower also offers defense organizations the capability to “consolidate” air traffic management in situations where there are smaller airbases, with less air traffic and minimally staffed personnel. Digital Tower creates increased efficiency and further cost reduction by routing the remote location’s visual feed to a consolidated air operations center, allowing staffing and asset management at the remote locations to be minimized or reassigned.

Real-world collaboration and deployment with US DoD

In 2023, Frequentis Defense successfully completed trials at three Air Force and Naval Air Bases of its fixed and deployable digital tower for the United States Department of Defense (DoD).

The deployable digital tower is set up in a military container environment, providing an enhanced, digital 360-degree “out-the-window” view incorporating a wide variety of sensors, cameras, digital data feeds, and display augmentation. It can be remotely deployed in short time frames, the control room can be in a centralized location allowing staff to work on different scenarios and all with minimal disruption to operations. The tower has been designed to enhance crew safety, situational awareness, training, and other mission requirements to support air traffic control.

The DoD saw value in the following enhanced innovative capabilities of our Digital Tower concept:: 

• Digital Tower enables more flexible deployment, enhanced features and new operation management concepts of operation (CONOPS). 
• Objects of interest are automatically marked with classic surveillance data including call sign, speed and heading information, enabling the controller to get labels at the position of the aircraft even if it is not detected by the camera. 
• Greater aviation safety, resiliency and the option to provide extended levels of service to remote regions. 
• Views can be enhanced through infrared technology. For example, in bad weather, when contrast is poor, or at night, are all occasions when Digital Towers will enable controllers to see aircraft when normally they couldn’t. 
• Digital Tower represents a technological and operational solution that offers the DoD an alternative to the high costs of building and maintaining new, conventional tower facilities and services.
  
  Link to the Press Release: FREQUENTIS and US DoD enhance operator safety and situational awareness with deployable digital tower 

FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT

For more details please download the following documents:

• White paper: Deployable tower US (pdf)
• Solution brief: Deployable tower US (pdf)
• Use case: Deployable ATC tower US (pdf)
• Solution brief: Remote digital tower US (pdf)
• PR: First military RDT in the U.S. completes Systems Operation and Verification Test (pdf)
• PR: Frequentis 1st Military RDT International (pdf)
   

Deployable tower video:

To follow our presence in the media, please view the following article(s):

• U.S. Military Experiments with Remote Digital Air Traffic Control

Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Frequentis Defense, Inc. directly:

Phone: +1 (443) 940-8300
E-mail:  marketing@frequentisdefense.com