Building a Global AIM Enterprise Architecture

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Building a Global AIM Enterprise Architecture

• Creating a Roadmap for Global AIM Interoperability

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Agenda

• Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
• Application to AIM
• Global AIM (G-AIM) EA
• Identifying information needs of the Global ATM
  Operational Concept (Doc 9854)
• FAA AIM EA

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Motivation for Global AIM Enterprise Architecture

• Aeronautical information is global in nature
• Todays paper-based AIS guidance and products do
  not lend themselves to information sharing
• Future ATM Operational Concepts will need more
  aeronautical information timely, accurate,
  quality

• Enterprise Architecture is a tool that can be
  used to improve efficiency and effectiveness of
  an organization

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Why Enterprise Architecture?

• Enterprise Architecture provides
• Effective planning better decisions
• Future proofing
• Helps organize and synchronize investments
• Disciplined approach defining our organization
• Why Performance Goals
• What Business / Operational activities
  Information
• How System capabilities and functions
  Technologies Standards
• When Timelines and roadmaps (From AIS to AIM)

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Enterprise Architecture Basics

• Basic Parts of an EA
• Current situation baseline - As Is
• Future goal target - To Be
• Roadmap from As Is to To Be

TO BE
AS IS
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Global AIS to AIM with Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture Business/ Organizational
activities System functions Information
needs Technology standards

• Identify common themes of AIM
• Targets of opportunity (D-AIM, AIXM, AMDB, NDBX,
  NOTAM)
• Identify barriers to modernization
• - Policy, SARPS, Cost, Technology,
• Effectively communicate and coordinate AIM
• Influence global AIS modernization
• Ensure AIMs place within ATM
• Influence vendor products and services
• - Eventually lower costs for AIM Modernization

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GAIM Segment-Enterprise Architecture
ATM

• Overall Aviation EA
• NextGen /SESAR/ Future Operational Improvements
• Global ATM Roadmaps
• Investment Analysis and Solution Set coordination

• AIM-Segment Actionable EA
• Global AIM portion of Future Operational
  Improvements
• Global AIM activities and services
• Global interoperability
• Transition planning

AIM
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Global AIM EA core team

• Team with a goal to develop the future
  architecture for AIM
• US FAA AIM group
• US Air Force, Air Mobility Command
• EUROCONTROL
• AirServices Australia, Information Communication
  Technology (ICT) Planning Technology and Asset
  Services

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Global AIM Activities

• Initial coordination May 2008
• FAA and AirServices Australia
• 2008 Global AIM Congress in Singapore
• Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
• Experiences of ASA and FAA
• Analysis of ICAO SARPS and CONOPS
• Annex 4, 15 As Is today
• Doc 9854 Global ATM Operational Concept
• AIS to AIM Study Group
• Information Paper Including AIM into Annex 15
• 2009 work plan
• AIM information needs
• NOTAM and Pilot Briefing concepts
• Enterprise Architecture seminar in Asia-Pacific?
• 2009 Global AIM congress in South Africa

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The Foundation for Global AIM

• Global AIM
• Derived from the Global ATM Operational Concept
• Has a common set of requirements
• As defined by ICAO SARPS
• Involves a common set of customer expectations
  for being able to coordinate operations
• Within and across member states and partners
• Will facilitate the next generation of Air
  Traffic Management solutions, worldwide
• Provides the knowledge-base for global aviation
• Global AIM involves an international community of
  dedicated experts, chartered to improve safety,
  efficiency, and capacity in an environmentally
  sound manner.

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Current situation according to Annex 15
ATM
AIS

• Enabling flight operations

• Provide information/data necessary to support
  international air navigation
• Assemble static information products (AIP, AIC,
  Charts)
• Provide notices of aeronautical information
  changes (NOTAM, SNOWTAM, BIRDTAM, ASHTAM)
• Brief pilots (PIB)

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Global ATM Vision

• Provide a holistic, cooperative and
  collaborative decision-making environment, where
  the diverging expectations and interests of all
  members of the ATM community are balanced to
  achieve equity and access.
• Information management provides accredited,
  quality-assured and timely information used to
  support ATM operations.

From ICAO Doc 9854 Global ATM Operational Concept
(1.9.1)
From ICAO Doc 9854 Global ATM Operational Concept
(2.15)
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ATM High-Level Operational Concept
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What does the Global ATM Operational Concept tell
us?

• Need a move to seamless global air traffic
  management
• Internationally harmonized and globally
  interoperable ATM system
• ATM includes seven capabilities
• Manage airspace
• Demand and capacity balancing
• Aeronautical operations
• Traffic synchronization
• Conflict management
• Airspace user operations
• ATM service delivery management
• AIM/Information Services
• Provide the information services necessary to
  support the seven ATM capabilities

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Role of AIM according to Doc 9854
ATM
AIM

• Enabling flight operations

• Provide common operating picture of aeronautical
  situation
• Monitor quality
• Control quality
• Provide information sharing
• Integrate data (historical, planning and
  operational)
• Provide decision information support

AeronauticalCommonOperatingPicture
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What is missing in AIM today?
Global ATM capabilities

• Manage airspace
• Demand and capacity balancing
• Aerodrome operations
• Traffic synchronization
• Conflict management
• Airspace user operations
• ATM service delivery management

How should AIM support these ATM capabilities?
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Implication for AIS and AIM

• In the past focused on satisfying Annex 15
• Annexes are stove-piped
• Focus on satisfying Global ATM operational
  concepts
• ATM is a global integrated enterprise
• Identify new enhancements needed for AIM
• Performance
• Business activities
• Information exchange requirements
• Result
• Changes to Annex 15 to ensure AIM supports future
  ATM

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AIM High-Level Operational Concept
Interactive, on-demand aeronautical information
interchange between the global aviation community
to support safe, efficient and environmentally
sound flight operations that maximizes system
capacity
Airports
Airlines
AeronauticalCommonOperatingPicture
Air NavigationService Providers
MeteorologicalService
3rd Party Data Suppliers
Search and Rescue
Law enforcement
Other airspace users
Military
General Aviation
ICAO, Regulators and Industry
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ATM Concept Components
Provide ATM Services
Provide Airspace
Operate Aerodrome Facility
Maintain Traffic Flow
Support Airspace User Operations
Manage ATM Service Delivery
Balance Demand and Capacity
Synchronize Traffic
Manage Conflict
Determine Capacity Evaluate Traffic FlowAccess
Demand and Capacity Imbalance Allocate
CapacityMitigate Demand and Capacity
Imbalance Facilitate Collaborative Decision Making
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ATM Business Activity ModelBalance Capacity and
Demand
Controls
Inputs
Outputs
Calculate actual capacity levels resulting from
aeronautical information common operating picture
and environmental conditions that could serve to
reduce capacity from engineered (ideal) capacity
levels
AIM flows
Other flows
Mechanisms
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AIM Support for Determine Capacity

• Should AIM be expanded to include capacity
  services?
• Capacity rules validation and capture
• Capacity calculations
• Capturing environmental conditions
• Providing Aeronautical Common Operating Picture

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AIM Support for Determine Capacity

• What are the performance requirements?
• Maximize capacity given constraints while
  maintaining safety
• How are AIM services and information supporting
  this performance requirement?

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AIM Support for Determine Capacity

• Should AIM be expanded to include capacity
  information?
• Airport capacity
• Taxiway capacity
• Gate turn around time
• Runway arrival/departure rate
• Airspace capacity

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Aeronautical Information Needs
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Applying G-AIM EA to the FAA
Global AIM Enterprise Architecture
FAA NextGen
AIM Common Status and Structure Data (CSSD)

• CSSD Expanding the role of AIM to provide the
  information and services necessary to support
  future ATM
• Digital
• Services Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Standards-based

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The Problem
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The AIM Modernization Concept
Provide a one stop shop for the aeronautical
information services necessary for flight
operations
Full Flight Plan
On-Demand NAS
Flight data management
4D Trajectory
Airspace Status
Situational Awareness
Enabling NextGen Capabilities
System Operations
En Route
Terminal
Aircraft
Global ATM Operations
AirportAirspaceWeatherSurveillanceRouteProce
duresTraffic Management InitiativesNavigation
AidsCommunicationAerial Refueling NOTAMPilot
ReportAirspace activationAdvisoryField
Condition
System Forecast
Planning
Performance
NAS ATM Support Services
Common Operating Picture for Aeronautical
Information
Airport Evaluation Airspace Design Geodectics
Surface Evaluation
Charting
Core Aeronautical Information Services
Collect
Evaluate
Distribute
Data Management
SWIM, DataComm, FTI
Requirement to be validated and/or reallocated
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First stepsStandards-based AIM technology
platform
Components of an AIM solution
Key Standards
Technologies

• User Interface
• Business Rules
• Geographic Information System
• Mapping Services
• SWIM Core Services
• Authentication
• Database

• Web Browser
• GML (Geographic Markup Language)
• ISO 19100 Series
• Annex 15
• AIXM 5.x
• Web Service standards (WS)
• SQL

• Google Web Toolkit
• JBOSS Rules Engine
• PostgreSQL Database
• PostGIS
• OGC WFS, WMS
• Java

Development of an open-source, standards-based
platform for AIM
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Summary

• AIM Enterprise Architecture
• Establishes a common language to share
  information across the global aeronautical
  communities, including
• CANSO, ICAO, IATA, Global AIM Consortium
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness of AIM to
  support Global ATM Concepts
• Global AIM
• Identify of future aeronautical information
  services
• Recommendations for AIS to AIM Study group
• FAA AIM
• Delivery of digital aeronautical information to
  support NextGen concepts
• Standards-based platform for a model AIM system