SDP Monitoring Exercise
How CP1 progress is monitored
The implementation of all technological and operational elements within the CP1 scope is monitored through close cooperation between the SESAR Deployment Manager and the operational stakeholders affected by the Regulation.
Each year, with the aim to monitor all CP1 implementation activities in Europe, either with or without CEF funding support, SDM collects and assesses information from all operational stakeholders—ANSPs, AISPs, airport operators, airspace users, the Network Manager, MET providers and military authorities—on the status of CP1 Deployment Milestones defined in the SESAR Deployment Programme.
Implementation needs are captured as “gaps,” defined by the combination of the required technical or operational elements (SDP Families) and the location where they must be deployed (airport or country). In line with CP1 and the SESAR Deployment Programme, certain Families are also mandatory for airspace users and the Network Manager.
To measure the progress of each CP1 gap, the status of specific Deployment Milestones (DMs) leading to the full deployment of a specific Family is monitored and assessed. Depending on its nature, scope and relevance, each milestone and its relevant checkpoints have been assigned with a specific weight to ensure progress is adequately tracked. The figure below illustrates how progress and status are derived from checkpoint-level reporting and progressively aggregated through the Deployment Milestone and Stakeholder levels up to the individual implementation gap level.
Tracking the evolution of gap progress and status during the years allows for the identification of the pace at which deployment activities are delivering their tangible results. Furthermore, it enables the measuring of the gradually reducing scope of remaining activities to be performed to achieve the full deployment of the CP1.
Starting from this edition of the Report, an additional metric to measure progress has been introduced. It is named deployment progress, and it is calculated as the arithmetic average of the individual gaps completed percentage (e.g., 39% as shown in the figure). It provides, at overall CP1, AF, SDP Family and SWIM service level, a meaningful indicator of progress towards full implementation, even where only a limited number of elements are already operational.
How to report on CP1 status
The information regarding the status of implementation of SDP Families is gathered, based on the SDP Deployment Milestones, through different means:
Ground Gaps are reported in LSSIP+ tool
For any further information please refer also to the SDM presentation at the last LSSIP+ Kick-Off Event
Airspace Users Gaps and Network Manager Gaps are reported through dedicated templates out of LSSIP+ tool
How CP1 progress is presented: SDP Monitoring Output
The outcome of the monitoring results can be visualised in the LSSIP+ tool throughout the whole reporting cycle, under the Analytics tab, in the section “SDP Monitoring Output.” This section is automatically synchronised with the database several times a day, ensuring that stakeholders always have access to the most up-to-date information. For this reason, it plays a key role by allowing stakeholders to consult the consolidated view of CP1 implementation before the Monitoring View report is officially released in April.
The Monitoring Output provides several dashboards offering insights into CP1 progress from different perspectives — for example by SDP Family, SWIM Service, or at national level.