The Air Traffic Control System Command Center’s (ATCSCC) mission is to balance safety and security with capacity and demand throughout the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). Through collaboration with other system stakeholders and the use of advanced automation tools, ATCSCC personnel plan and regulate the flow of air traffic to minimize delays and congestion while maximizing the overall efficiency of the NAS. The ATCSCC exercises control and oversight of air traffic activity, both civil and military, in domestic and oceanic airspace, with air traffic control field facilities.
Command Center staff manage the flow of air traffic when weather, equipment, runway closures or other conditions are expected to place stress on the NAS. In these instances, traffic and weather specialists at the Command Center take preventive actions to adjust traffic demands accordingly. Decisions are carried out in cooperation with airline personnel, traffic management specialists and controllers at affected facilities. For example, in the summer months, controllers across the country skillfully route planes around dangerous thunderstorms with direction from Command Center traffic managers.
Site Organization
A database format is used to make updating easier and to create inter-activity between the informational pages. Additionally, using a wiki-type database uses collective wisdom instead of a single point of information. Updates should remain accessible by operational personnel, even if restricted to a single NOM username and password to ensure security needs remain intact.
Information is categorized by element type, i.e., En route centers, TRACONs, airports, and airspace items to facilitate its sorting and listing by the database. ARTCC elements are designed to replace the static NSST Handbook (formerly Severe Weather Handbook), while the TRACON pages would be intended to share similar information about terminal operations. Airspace elements will detail items of interest across the NAS, such as the interaction between EWR and TEB, and ORD and MDW.
Menu systems at the top of the page will remain static, however, menus to the left of the page will change to fit the category displayed, i.e., ARTCC or airport.
Detail pages include dynamic content, i.e., peak volume days, current AARs, current runway configurations, and current resrictions to optimize information sharing. Dynamic content is represented by green text.
Airport pages require linking to the NACO DVD currently received by DCC, to support airport diagram depiction and listing of approach plates.
Please feel free to enter comments into the development pages, this will help refine the product. Additionally, the "Comment" feature should be retained in the final product, to make facility and customer suggestions easy to track and implement.