Digital Avionics Technical Committee

Digital Avionics Systems Conference

Digital Avionics Technical Committee

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Welcome to ICNS

ICNS started in 2001 as a NASA workshop in Cleveland, Ohio during the onset of NextGen in the U.S., but it didn’t stop there. The ICNS Conference has grown into a premier international aviation conference on communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) and air traffic management (ATM). It provides a forum for thought leaders, policymakers, researchers, and other technical experts from government, industry, and academia around the world to address significant challenges of new entrants and new types of operations, while ensuring the safety, sustainability, and efficiency of air traffic management. We bring people together, we keep the community informed, and we recognize the best.

History of DASC

In the early 1970’s, the field of digital avionics was in its infancy. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) saw a need to provide a forum of technical interchange in this new field and created the Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC). The first DASC was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1975, followed two years later by the second DASC in Los Angeles, California. In 1979, the third DASC was held in Fort Worth, Texas and the AIAA chose to share financial and technical administration of the conference with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). IEEE was eager to join in administration of this new emerging technology conference. This was accomplished through a written agreement between the AIAA and the IEEE. In 1988, when the AIAA disengaged from full ownership of the conference, they became a co-sponsor and the Digital Avionics Technical Committee (DATC) obtained DASC conference ownership.

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Press Passes Available for 2023 ASCEND

Press Passes Available for 2023 ASCEND

Registration is open for journalists around the world to attend 2023 ASCEND, 23–25 October, Caesars Forum, Las Vegas. A Press Pass for in-person attendance is available for credentialed media by request. A Press Pass provides access to all MACRO, META, MICRO, and SPECIAL sessions, along with nearly 300 technical paper and collaboration.