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The evolving SES regulations based on the harmonisation of the coordination and interoperability operational concepts or technical standards introduces in front of the military ATM stakeholder several new challenges which might be converted in opportunities for a more complete, optimized and performant Air C2 missions. The introduction of the 4D Trajectory based management of the Air traffic and the new technical standards on the harmonisation of automatic ATM data exchanges need to be implemented in the Air C2 centres and systems.

The latest version of the European ATM Master Plan demonstrates the necessity to transform the ATM architecture due to several observed concerns that will have to be improved and optimised. These concerns are mainly the following ones:

• a steady increase of conventional traffic since 2014, even if the current sanitary crisis has drastically reduced the traffic, it is most probably a temporary situation;
• the growing environmental concerns raised by the aviation sector to demonstrate its capacity to contribute to the EU’s environmental objectives;
• the appearance of new entrants into the airspace with the expected large number and heterogeneous nature of drones together with the emerging interest for operating vehicles at very high altitudes;

Against this background, Member States and Norway must be prepared from a military perspective to:

• Safeguard the military ambition to be trained for and to execute missions as required and more specifically to continue performing Air Surveillance and Control in the changing context of civil aviation sector (digitalization, automation, dynamic airspace management, new data format, resilience and cybersecurity issues), facing the density and diversity increase of air traffic,
• Ensure the interoperability and data exchange between civil and military control centres, including data sharing between classified and non-classified environment, permitting an efficient, secured and safe ATC12 (e.g., for military airports providing Air Traffic Services for civilian flights) and to support the planning, tasking.