Airborne Internet / Collaborative Information Environment

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Airborne Internet / Collaborative
InformationEnvironment

• A presentation to AIG/WG

By the Airborne Internet Collaboration/Working
Group Randy.Schmidt_at_NGC.com presenting March 3,
2004
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Three Main Points

• If the right aviation information at the right
  time is the goal
• Discovery on Demand usingXML Web Services is
  the solution
• Allowing the transformation to a Collaborative
  Information Environment (CIE)

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The right aviation informationat the right time

• Led to the concept of an AirborneInternet (AI)
• A private, secure, and reliable peer-to-peer
  aircraft communications network that uses the
  same technologies as the commercial Internet
• However, the AI does not currently provide a
  universal way to find
• Decision quality information

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Knowledge Management and theArt of Decision
Wisdom
Decision Maker
Decision quality information
Knowledge
Knowledge Executive
Information
Information Worker
Data
Data Entry Worker
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Getting decision quality informationto the
Decision Maker
Traditional methods Publish and
Subscribe Push versus Pull Client / Server
Discovery on Demand
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Discovery on Demand

• Accomplished through XML Web Services
• Software components that can be published,
  located, and run over the Internet using
  Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• XML definition
• A markup language that describes data in a
  structured and human-readable text format
• Example ltaircraftgt
  ltn-numbergtN500EAlt/n-numbergt
  ltmakegtEclipselt/makegt
  ltmodelgt500lt/modelgt lt/aircraftgt

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XML Web Services

• Are used to
• Allow other applications to call modules of code
  remotely with XML
• Expose data in a database as XML
• Send XML messages
• E.g. alerts and notifications
• Build Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Flexible, reusable, and lower cost

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Embrace and Extend
National Wx Service
FAA
Trusted-Table Security DAC Views
Secure Flight Data
Rental Car
Hotels
FBO
FAA Flight Service
Pilot/Info Consumer
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XML Web Services
Industry standards for interoperability

• Enable disparate systems to work together
• Across languages, platforms, applications
• Computer to computer
• Inside/outside the firewall
• Based on open Internet standards
• XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI
• Broad industry support
• Key area of vendor alignment

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XML Web ServicesNext wave of Internet evolution
XML
HTML
Technology
TCP/IP
Databaseconnectivity
PresentationLegacy scrape
CIE
Connectivity
Email, FTP, etc.
Innovation
Web pages
XML WebServices
Browse the Web
Programthe Internet
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Collaborative Information Environment (CIE)

• The transformation of the Internet byXML Web
  Services
• 2nd generation Web (Web 1 ? Web 2)
• Military example SharePoint PortalHeads Up
  Display (HUD) experiment
• Uses XML Web Services to create a CIEthat
  combines information from
• NASA
• Synchronized Air Power Management (SAPM)
• Defense Collaboration Tool Suite (DCTS)
• JEMPRS-NT

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Joint Enroute Mission Planning and Rehearsal
System-Near Term (JEMPRS-NT)

• Operational Needs During Deployment
• Situational Awareness
• Collaborative Operating Environment
• Enroute SITREP/Crisis Action Planning
• Support of Rapid Decisive Operations

JOA
(In Transit)
JEMPRS-NT KIT
JTF Rear

• JEMPRS-NT Functions
• - Voice, Video, and Data
• Application Sharing
• Whiteboard and Text Chat
• Digital Dashboard
• E-mail and FTP
• XML Web Services
• Network Access to Other Systems

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Collaborative Information Environment Meet us in
the cloud
Airborne Internet
GPS
Navigation
Satcom

• XM
• RFID
• AM/FM
• 802.xx

• Airport Services
• TIS
• FIS
• Hospitality
• Maint.

VHF Radio
Line of sight
VHF Radio
VHF Radio
DATABASE CONNECTIVITY
Gateway
Non-CIE Aircraft

• Internet
• Weather Products
• NOTAMs
• Flight Service Stations
• Other

• NAS Services
• ATM System
• HUB Airports
• TIS-B

VPN
ATC Controller
Original graphic courtesy of Computer Networks
Software, Inc.
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AI / CIE removes existingaviation information
barriers
Graphic courtesy of C3D Aero, Inc.
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AI / CIE provides decision quality information
for cockpit displays
Airspace notification
Icing Alert
Discovery on Demand MFD
Traffic Alert
Original graphic courtesy of C3D Aero, Inc.
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Functional picture of the AI / CIE
Engine Cockpit Cabin
Mechanic, Manufacturer Pilot Passenger
Maintenance information Flight information Entertainment
Users
Services
Digital connectivity across all types of
communicationsVHF radio, Satellite, Infrared,
etc.
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AI / CIE ? Internet and Web 1

• The AI / CIE is about
• End users, not webmasters
• Edge devices, not clients and servers
• XML Web Services, not web pages
• XML knowledge packets, not just TCP/IP
  connections
• Types Maintenance, Flight, Entertainment, etc.
• Built-in security, not security as an afterthought

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AI / CIE interfaces securely withthe following
networks

• The commercial Internet
• Assured extranet connections
• OnSATS
• AirTraveler.com (formerly SATS-Net)
• Carries Assured Aviation XML Web Services
• Client-side end user intranets

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AI / CIE End StateEvery aircraft is a network
nodeNetwork In the Sky
A distributed, peer-to-peer aircraft
communications grid that shares decision quality
information
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Conclusion

• If the right aviation information at the right
  time is the goal
• Discovery on Demand usingXML Web Services is
  the solution
• Allowing the transformation to a Collaborative
  Information Environment (CIE)

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For more information

• http//www.airborneinternet.com
• http//acb100.tc.faa.gov
• http//www.c3daero.com/presentations