System Wide Information Management Program Overview

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System Wide Information Management Program
Overview
Presented to RTCA SC-206 By Jim Dieudonne,
Chief Engineer Data and Communications
Services Date September 11, 2006
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SWIM Contacts

• Program Manager
• Don Ward, Donald.Ward_at_faa.gov
• Systems Engineer Lead
• Mike Hritz, Mike.Hritz_at_faa.gov

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Business as Usual
What is SWIM?
- More point-to-point unique interfaces - Costly
development, test, maintenance, CM - New
decisions linked to old data constructs -
Cumbersome data access outside of NAS
Today
Enterprise Management
- Fewer open, COTS-based, secure, access points
for new systems and external data customers -
Reduced development, test, maintenance, CM -
Decisions no longer geographically linked to data
sources
- Existing point-to-point hardwired NAS - Unique
interfaces, custom designs - New system
integration difficult and expensive - Complex and
costly maintenance and test
SWIM Core Services provide the functionality
needed to push/pull data to/from the network,
manage the interfaces, and secure the information
and access to it
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What is SWIM (Not)?
X
?
SWIM
X
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SWIM Core Services Provide the Means (Still under
Formulation)

• Directory/Registry Service
• For telling SWIM what data you have and what data
  you need
• Interface Service
• Manages your connection to the SWIM network
• Brokering Service
• Matches available information to information
  needs
• Infrastructure Management Service
• Provides end-to-end performance monitoring,
  configuration management and problem
  detection/resolution as well as resource
  accounting and addressing (of SWIM specific
  assets)
• Enterprise Security Service
• Addresses vulnerabilities in networks,
  infrastructure services, or systems
• Protects the integrity of data
• Regulates which systems and users can access what
  data, by what means, and how often
• Note This description of Core Services is based
  upon currently understood concepts of use and may
  change as program requirements evolve

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Broader Government-Industry Network-Enabled
Community
NAS Users
U.S. DOD
Weather
Flight Data
Aero Info
Surveillance
Communities of Interest
NAS Status
International
U.S. DHS
SWIM-Enabled National Airspace System
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Key Drivers

• Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS)
  goals and objectives are based on a transition to
  network-enabled operations
• More data at more decision points for use by more
  decision makers
• Some concepts, however, are still being validated
  by JPDO, making it difficult to quantify them
  into a SWIM acquisition business case
• A flexible, agile, open information management
  infrastructure is needed to react to these
  evolving needs
• Many systems are currently planning to design
  network-based interfaces and data security
  capabilities unilaterally or bilaterally to meet
  their own needs
• Establishment of a SWIM program now allows
  requisite governance, standards, performance, and
  implementation requirements to be coordinated,
  precluding the need to modify those designs in
  the future
• Some of these activities are good starting
  points, that may be extensible to other domains,
  systems, or users if built right from the start

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Historical Context SWIM Pre-Dates NGATS

• ATS Concept of Operations for the National
  Airspace System in 2005 (September 30, 1997)
  identified general need
• National Airspace System Concept of Operation and
  Vision for the Future of Aviation (RTCA, November
  15, 2002) introduced common information network
  concept to manage data at a NAS level
• ICAO Global Air Traffic Management Operational
  Concept (2005) adopted the SWIM as an enabler to
  promote information-based ATM integration
• NGATS 2025 Concept Brief, Concept v4.8 JPDO
  Working Document, August 31, 2005 identified
  concept as fundamental to making data available,
  securable, and useable in real time to support
  new decisions and new decision makers

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SWIM Program Relationships
JPDO NGATS Concepts of Use
Enterprise Architecture Board
SWIM Program Office
Demonstration/Validation
Core Services
Wx Demo
GATI Demo
NEO Demo
NAS Management COI
Surveillance COI
Flow Flight Data COI
Wx COI
Aeronautical Information COI
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Summary

• SWIM Technical Architecture and Program
  Management structure execution organized around
  two fundamental principles
• Info-based communities of interest that are
  defined by their linkage to operational
  improvements
• NAS-wide services linked to a more efficient and
  cost effective infrastructure
• In many ways, SWIM represents a strategic
  investment against the unknown.
• Interstate highway system established economic
  centers, not vice versa
• Todays internet was invented long before the
  thousands of applications that take advantage of
  it
• COTS technology is the foundation upon which SWIM
  will be built, but there is risk there
• COTS products are shaped like rocks, not bricks.
  Pieces are not designed to fit together. Key is
  figure out the right shapes and sizes and the
  amount of mortar needed before building the
  foundation
• We know enough to get started with SWIM, but
  further research is needed to reach an end state