On April 17, 2018, in Brussels, Mr. Kliment Chepunjoski – Member of the Management Board of M-NAV and CNS Executive Director, together with forty-one industry partners attended the launching of a new contract between Eurocontrol mandated by M-NAV to sign a contract with British Telecom for the provision and management of safe and resilient New Pa-European Network Service (NewPENS). This network features safe and cost-efficient transfer of business-critical data. The NewPENS is the successor to PENS which was launched in 2009, but the new one offers the following advantages: wider range of stakeholders, increased flexibility and safety levels as well as other beneficial developments. Mr. Eamonn Brennan, Director General of Eurocontrol, noted that with the air traffic on rise, NewPENS will provide solid support to European aviation, securing cross-border connections and underpinning safety-critical applications.
Currently, there are approximately 100 sites to the more than 30 current PENS users as well as Eurocontrol will gradually be transferred in clusters to NewPENS between Ocotober 2018 and November 2019, the date on which the current PENS will expire.
