Presentation at Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference Today, mission planners and pilots must access and process an overwhelming volume of information (e.g. NOTAMs, special activity airspace data, airport data and weather), of which only a small portion of that information is relevant to the mission. In this presentation, we will demonstrate a Semantic Decision Support Tool (SDST) that pulls together information from disparate sources and delivers context-specific information to an end user (e.g. a pilot or an air traffic controller) based on, among other things, flight mission, phase of flight, and type of aircraft.

1. I’m drowning in data…
…how can you help?
Context Driven Delivery of Aeromedical
Information
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2. Sponsors
DoD NOTAMS Office
NextGen Joint Planning and
Development Office
(Now NextGen Interagency
Planning Office)
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3. Agenda
• Problem
– Information Overload
• Solution Demonstration
– Context-Driven Delivery of Aeronautical Information
• Way Forward
– Cross Organizational Semantic Services
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4. Problem: Information Overload
NOTAMS Charts Aircraft
Procedures
Takeoff/
Landing
Limitations
Bird
Aeronautical
Advisories SID/STARs Information Flight Plan
GPS Info Approach
Plates Weather Fuel
Requirements
What the Pilot really need is help in:
• Putting together discrete and pertinent pieces of information
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• Executing a knowledgeable decision at the right time

5. Some Data Can Be Presented
Better, But…
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6. Scenario
• C-17 departs from Travis AFB to Ft Hood to pick up cargo and personnel
• Aircraft will continue on to Dover AFB to offload cargo
Atlas 747 is • en-route to Dover AFB to pick up cargo delivered by the C-17
• Next destination is Miami International airport where cargo is delivered
(Technical Process)
Federated
Semantic Query
Information
Filtering and
Prioritization
Recommended
Trigger Action
1.Pre-flight Planning
2.En Route Mechanical Failure
3.Arrival Data Sources
NOTAMS
Aerodrome
Airfield Services
Weather (Local, Regional)
Aeronautical ( DAFIF)
Context Information
On-board Sensors
Mission Information
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Temporary Flight
Restrictions (FAA)
Special Use Airspace
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(DAFIF)
Flight Crew
Aircraft Charateritics

7. Data Sources
Data Sources
DoD
Defense Aeronautical
NOTAM Information Portal
User
Interface
DoD Flight Information
NGA
Publication
Approach
Plates and
Charts
Digital Aeronautical
Flight Information File
FAA/NOAA*
Airport and
Runways
Demo
Scenario
Aviation Digital Data
Service
Google
METAR
Weather
Google
Temperature
Cloud Coverage
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Aircraft Characteristics
Aircraft
* Through UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH Characteristics

8. Preflight Planning: Pilot
Perspective
Information from
multiple sources in a
single place in the
order of relevance
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9. Onboard Emergency: Pilot
Perspective
Recommendation of
emergency land sites
based on business rules
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10. Onboard Emergency: ATC
Perspective
Tailed information
presentation based
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on mission
requirements.
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11. Operational Benefits
• Deliver context-sensitive information
– To the right people
– At the right time
• Reduce number of systems required for preflight preparation
• Improve arrival preparation and efficiency by
– Dynamically supporting optimized approach and landing
– Based on weather data and relevant NOTAMs
• Increase safety of flight by
– Reducing errors
– Reducing time pilots need to spend
• Reviewing documents
• Analyzing and integrating the information
• Making decisions manually
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12. CrOSS Organizational Semantic
Services
• Leverage Semantic Web Technologies
– Provide actionable intelligence
– Enable information discovery across organizational boundaries
– Reuse existing data sources and services
• Address Operational Problems
– Context-driven Decision Support for Pilot (NOTAM demonstration)
– Collaboration and Alignment of NextGen Activities (CrOSS)
Semantic Decision
Support Tool
Operational Information Shaping NOTAM,
Weather,
Charts,
Airports
Information Filtering
and Prioritization n
Cross‐Organizational
Semantic Services
Airports,
Flight Plans,
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Requirements,
CONOPS,
Enterprise
Architecture,
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Big Data Analytics
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Enterprise Knowledge
Decision Support

13. Way Forward
JPE II R&D Sync UAS Decision Support Demonstrations
CrOSS Core Services
API
Knowledge Management Federated Data Business Rules
Semantic Information
M tP t lth t S iD i i S T l
NextGen Prototyping Network
Management Portal that
Learns (SIMPL)
Semantic Decision Support Tool
NSRR GSD Reg
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FAA NOAA
Weather NOTAM
Aeronautical
Information