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Digital Information Platform

The Digital Information Platform (DIP) subproject will accelerate the way for digital services to promote a smarter and safer airspace. Today, aviation data is often difficult for aircraft operators to access and use, which prevents techniques such as artificial intelligence and machine learning from being used to improve the efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS). Data can be hard to decipher, preventing development of innovative advanced solutions to enter the market.

DIP is designed to be a cloud-based ecosystem that takes data from many sources and turns it into easily accessible, easy-to-use digital information. This capability will provide necessary data for airspace management and users of the airspace system – providing a foundation for new aviation services that will improve the efficiency and sustainability of the future NAS. DIP will pave the way for high-reuse digital services to be more quickly discovered.


Project Goals

Accelerate NAS transformation through development of a platform for advanced, data-driven, digital services for flight operators to promote efficient aviation operations.

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Objective 1

Create stakeholder-informed requirements for a digital information platform to improve the deployment and access of aviation data and services

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Objective 2

Develop a reference implementation of DIP to validate stakeholder-informed requirements

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Objective 3

Evaluate a variety of NASA-developed and industry-developed services to identify data needs for the DIP architecture

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Objective 4

Coordinate demonstrations with stakeholders of reference technologies, new service(s), and DIP framework

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Objective 5

Document best practices for sharing data and data handling among stakeholders in the DIP community

Outcomes

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Promote data foundation necessary for info-centric NAS towards Vision 2045

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Improved access to digital data available to accelerate the development of innovative airspace management services

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Expand and build on today’s existing aviation ecosystem of digital services