7. Acronyms

AAF Airsys ATM France

APT Aptime

ARIBA ATM system safety criticality Raises Issues in Balancing Actors responsibility

ATC Air Traffic Control

ATCo Air Traffic Controller

ATM Air Traffic Management

CAA Civil Aviation Authority

CEC Commission of the European Communities

COTS Commercial Off The Shelf

DAL Development Assurance Level

DERA Defence Evaluation and Research Agency

DG Directorate General

DOD Department Of Defense

EATCHIP European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme

E.C. European Commission

EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Services

FAA Federal Aviation Authority

FHA Functional Hazard Analysis

FMECA Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis

FR Final Report

FTA Fault Tree Analysis

GSN Goal Structuring Notation

HAZOP HAZard and OPerability Study

HMI Human Machine Interface

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organisation

ISO International Standard Organisation

NLR Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium

PSSA Preliminary System Safety Assessment

R&D Research and Development

RTCA Requirements and Technical Concepts for Aviation

RUL Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

SAM Safety Argument Manager

SCAA Swedish Civil Aviation Administration

Sofréavia Société Française d'Étude et de Réalisation d' Équipements Aéronautiques

SRG Safety Regulation Group

SSA System Safety Assessment

TRTD Transport Research and Technological Development

WP# Numbered Work Package

WPR Work Package Report