ARTS IIIE

History:

• Rapid growth of New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility requirements necessitated development of a larger automation system with more functionality. To accommodate the need, the ARTS IIIE system was evolved from ARTS IIIA. It became operational in 1993 with the following features: Processing accomplished in a distributed open systems architecture with functionality divided among common processing, track processing, system monitor, and display processing subsystems.
  • Utilization of a Local Area Network (LAN) for system communications.
  • Use of non-developmental items (NDI) and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products in some subsystems.
  • System support of 5 sensors, 2800 simultaneous tracks and 58 displays.

ARTS IIIE Upgrade A6.04 Description

• In the early 1990's, projected growth at other high density facilities indicated a need for additional ARTS IIIE upgrades at other ARTS IIIA sites. This resulted in a 1992 contract for the development and fielding of ARTS IIIE A6.04 at selected sites.
• ARTS IIIE A6.04 enhancements included:
  • Development of a National Software Baseline functionally equivalent to ARTS IIIA A3.06 with additional enhancements.
  • Rehosting of common processing functions from 6 Input/Output Processors, modification B (IOPB) to 3 COTS micro-processors, and recoding of software from assembly language to ANSI C.
  • Use of optical disk drives
  • Performance monitoring data offloaded to a PC.
  • System functionality increase to allow 6 sensor inputs and 76 displays.
• ARTS IIIE A6.04 became operational at the Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago, and New York TRACONs in 1996.

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