Global AIM Architecture Framework

Brett BrunkAeronautical Information Management (AIM) GroupFederal Aviation Administration – United StatesMarch 2009

Federal AviationAdministrationBuilding a Global

AIM Enterprise Architecture

Creating a Roadmap for Global AIM Interoperability

2Federal AviationAdministration

Global AIM Architecture FrameworkMarch 2009

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



Motivation for Global AIM Enterprise Architecture

• Aeronautical information is global in nature•Today’s 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



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)



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”

AIP

Classical AIS

SUP, NOTAM,

AIC

Future AIM

“AS IS” “TO BE”



Global AIS to AIM with Enterprise Architecture

AIP

Classical AIS

SUP, NOTAM,

AIC

Future AIM

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 AIM’s place within ATM• Influence vendor products and services

- Eventually lower costs for AIM Modernization



GAIM Segment-Enterprise Architecture

ATM

AIM

“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



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



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



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.



Current situation according to Annex 15

• 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)

ATM AIS



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)



ATM High-Level Operational Concept

Performance Goal Model

Business Activities Model

Information Model

Standards Model

Foundation for a Baseline Architecture

Global ATM Interoperability built on

AIM Services

Balanced against business concerns – safety, efficiency,

capacity, environmental, institutional issues

Data Context andSemantic Meaning

Service focusedInformation Standardization

AIM Services

Service Profiles

ATM Business Activities and

Performance Goals

Unique PerformanceMeasures

TechnologyStandards



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



Role of AIM according to Doc 9854

• 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

ATM AIM

AeronauticalCommonOperating

Picture



What is missing in AIM today?

– 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?

Global ATM capabilities



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



AeronauticalCommonOperating

Picture

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

Air NavigationService Providers

Airports

MeteorologicalService

Airlines

ICAO, Regulators and Industry

Search and Rescue

Law enforcement

Military

3rd Party Data Suppliers

General Aviation

Other airspace users



ATM Concept ComponentsProvide 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



A3.1.1

Determine Capacity

Engineered Capacity

Environmental Conditions Aeronautical

Common Operating Picture

Capacity Levels

Capacity rules

AIM

ATM Business Activity ModelBalance Capacity and Demand

Inputs Outputs

Mechanisms

Controls

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 flowsOther flows



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


A3.1.1

Determine Capacity

Engineered Capacity



Capacity Levels

Capacity rules

AIM



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?

A3.1.1

Determine Capacity

Engineered Capacity



Capacity Levels

Capacity rules

AIM



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 capacityA3.1.1

Determine Capacity

Engineered Capacity



Capacity Levels

Capacity rules

AIM



Aeronautical Information Needs

Term Capacity Airspace Reservation

Source Doc 9854 Doc 9854

Definition The maximum number of aircraft that can be accommodated in a given time period by the system or one of its components

Airspace reservation: means, a defined volume of airspace, normally under the jurisdiction of one aviation authority and temporarily reserved, by common agreement, for exclusive use by another aviation authority

AIXM 5 Mapping

AirspaceUsage



Applying G-AIM EA to the FAA

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

Global AIM Enterprise

ArchitectureFAA NextGen

AIM Common Status and Structure Data

(CSSD)+ =



The Problem …

Sector Design

Airspace Sector Analysis

Terrain Feature

Geographic Features

Obstacle Repository

Surface Analysis

Airspace JO 7400.9

SDAT

OEAAA

Airports GIS

TFR Builder

SAA

CMAP

FADDS

NASR

Current or proposed AIM Applications Business Processes or

Services

Today

Common Services accomplished separately



The AIM Modernization Concept

Collect Evaluate Distribute

AirportAirspaceWeather*SurveillanceRouteProceduresTraffic Management InitiativesNavigation AidsCommunicationAerial Refueling

NOTAMPilot ReportAirspace activationAdvisoryField Condition

Data Management

Core Aeronautical Information Services

Airport Evaluation Airspace Design GeodecticsCommon Operating Picture for Aeronautical

Information

Surface Evaluation

SWIM, DataComm, FTI

Provide a ‘one stop shop’ for the aeronautical information services necessary for flight operations

NAS ATM Support ServicesSystem Forecast Planning Performance

Enabling NextGen Capabilities

Full Flight Plan

Airspace Status Situational Awareness4D Trajectory

On-Demand NASFlight data management

* Requirement to be validated and/or reallocated

Global ATM Operations

Terminal En RouteSystem OperationsAircraft

Charting



First stepsStandards-based AIM technology platform

Components of an AIM solution

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

Key Standards

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

Technologies

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

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



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