Federal Aviation Administration

Information Exchange and

Information Management

Steve Bradford

Increasing Imperative for Change

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Why a Single Track Through the Bay in All Weather

Conditions is Critical to Success

B6500

A6000

6000

5000

12 miles

further

Continuous 3 degree

Glideslope from HEDDR

ATC issues and pilots fly the same track every time, predictable and stabilized

STAR connects to all approaches, continues the 3 degree glideslope, no level-offs or vectors

Trajectory Operations: Transformation Procedural Based Control:

Control on Where We Think the Aircraft Is

Landmark Navigation

Radio Beacons

Position Reports

Surveillance Based Control: Control on Where We Know the

Aircraft Is

VOR/DME

RADAR

Trajectory Based Control: Control on Where We Know

the Aircraft Will Be

RNP

ADS-B

DataComm

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Trajectory Timeline

Collision

Avoidance

Separation

Management

Trajectory

Management Flow

Management Airspace

Management

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6

Historical Interactions

PIC

Controller TMU FOC

Strategic Data

Connection

Voice

1 Collision

Avoidance

4 4

3 3

2

DATA 4 Flow

Management

3 Trajectory

Management

2 Separation

Management

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Current Interactions

A/C

PIC

Controller

ATC

Automation

TFM

Automation

FOC

Automation

TMU FOC

Strategic Data

Connection

Voice

1 Collision

Avoidance

4

4 4

4

3 3 3

3

3 3

2

2

2

1

DATA 4 Flow

Management

3 Trajectory

Management

2 Separation

Management

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Future Interactions

A/C

PIC

Controller

ATC

Automation

TFM

Automation

FOC

Automation

TMU FOC

Strategic Data

Connection

Voice

4

4 4

4

3 3 3

3

3 3

2

2

2

1

DATA

1 Collision

Avoidance

4 Flow

Management

3 Trajectory

Management

2 Separation

Management

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PIC

Future Interactions

A/C

Controller

ATM

Automation FOC

Automation

TMU FOC

Strategic Data

Connection

Voice

DATA

2 1

2

3

3 2 3

3

3

4

3 3 4

4 2

1 Collision

Avoidance

4 Flow

Management

3 Trajectory

Management

2 Separation

Management

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Three ways to respond to the data

exchange increase

• Extend current data messages

ICAO 2012

• Already talking about ICAO 2014

• Special Purpose Messages

Low risk for implementing programs

Antithesis of SOA - replacing point-to-point

communications with point-to-point messaging

• Only sustainable in the US due to the size of our internal

operations

• Moving to information management & exchange

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Information Management & Exchange

• The commercial world has been moving from

data to information with success for a long time

– lowering costs for all users

HTTP

Banking networks

• Information exchange gives us the ability to be

extensible for the future and be globally

harmonized right now

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So where are we?

• We are not moving to a System of Systems

We have always been one

• We are not moving to the EVALUATOR – the

machine of God

We remain a system of independent actors and

human – centered

Knowledge-based versus rule-based

• We need to move from the data age into the

Information Age

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Differentiating between

Authoritative Source for Data and

Business Information Steward

Information Management –

rehabilitation course

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Authoritative Source for Data

MOO

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Authoritative Source for Data

MOO

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Business Information Steward

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Are we eating the Red Meat?

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Exchange Standards

≠ Information Management

Publication Is Not The End

– No Implementation – No Success

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Over the New Standards Hump

• We need to move forward to the integration of

information and standards into our systems

• Exchange standards is only one critical step

towards the modern age of SOA and Information

Management

• The community has to put the effort into

overcoming the reluctance to use a new

standard

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What that means for the FAA?

• FAA will require all future demonstrations and

pre-implementation activities to integrate AIXM,

WXXM, or FIXM

• Examples

Airborne Access to SWIM

UAS Integration into NAS

Enroute Reroutes – Datacomm

Mini-global - FIXM exchange with Europe and Asia…

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