Strategic Conflict Detection

Strategic conflict detection is a pre-flight service consisting of the arrangement, negotiation, and prioritisation of intended operational 4D volumes, routes, or trajectories of emerging aircraft operations to minimise the likelihood of airborne conflicts between operation.*

In the European Union, this service is materialised by the Art. 10 of the U-space Regulation, called “UAS flight authorisation”.

As with the provision of Net-RID service, the provision of the strategic deconfliction service also relies on the exchange of data between UAS service suppliers (USS). This means that in a given area the USS shall be interoperable in order to exchange the operational information prescribed by the ASTM F3548-21 Standard and/or by the U-space regulation. Interoperability is achieved through a Discovery and Synchronisation Service (DSS) which is a standardised discovery mechanism. The DSS has the function, within a defined location, to identify a USS with whom the planning USS needs to exchange data, and also to verify that the information exchanged is relevant. The InterUSS platform implements a standards-compliant DSS capability as well as monitoring tools that validate the implementation of the service.

The InterUSS DSS allows a USSP to quickly and easily discover other USSPs relevant to detection of conflicts and synchronize their operational intents in accordance with the ASTM UTM USS Interoperability specification.