SWIM – My Blog

SWIM – Live success at World ATM Congress

During 3 closed-out demonstration sessions, SESAR partners met at World ATM Congress to demonstrate live the agility and flexibility System Wide Information Management (SWIM) can bring. “Now I understand what SWIM is all about” “SWIM is becoming a reality” “Excellent demonstration!” “This demonstration has shown that with very little effort you can interconnect many different… Continue reading SWIM – Live success at World ATM Congress

Manual on Flight and Flow Information for a Collaborative Environment (FF-ICE)

It is recognized that the air transport industry plays a major role in world economic activity and to maintain a safe, secure efficient and environmentally sustainable air navigation system at global, regional and local levels, it is required the implementation of an air traffic management (ATM) system that allows maximum use to be made of… Continue reading Manual on Flight and Flow Information for a Collaborative Environment (FF-ICE)

Fact sheets on SWIM

One of the ways SESAR communicates with the world is the so-called fact-sheets. These are compact descriptions of certain aspects of the work-packages and as such provide a fairly useful source of quick reference. System Wide Information Management (SWIM) has its own set of fact-sheets, well worth a look. Check them out here.

SWIM – One size does not fit all?

Whatever the context, this is a very true statement. And I hate it from the bottom of my heart. Why? Because in the area closest to my heart, air traffic management, it has been used over the years as the (rather lame) excuse for not harmonizing things, be it implementation dates, system functionality or the… Continue reading SWIM – One size does not fit all?

SWIM in SESAR

The importance of System Wide Information Management for the future ATM system is undisputed now and luckily it seems that the voices wanting to eliminate the venerable abbreviation SWIM have also lost power. Within the SESAR Program, 2 work-packages are entrusted with the development of SWIM, WP8 (“Information Management”) and WP14 (SWIM Technical Architecture”), with… Continue reading SWIM in SESAR

Encouraging news from the SWIM front

System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is one of the mainstays of both SESAR and NextGen. It has been known for some time now that a lot of the shortcomings in air traffic management (ATM) are directly or indirectly related to poor management and limited or non-existent sharing of the sea of information actually available at… Continue reading Encouraging news from the SWIM front

SWIM and WikiLeaks – do we need to worry?

For all those who are even a little familiar with the System Wide Information Management (SWIM) concept the recent publication of thousands of classified diplomatic documents must have come as a shock. If secret diplomatic correspondence can be hijacked and made public with such ease, what hope do we have of keeping the commercially or… Continue reading SWIM and WikiLeaks – do we need to worry?

FF-ICE – Flight and Flow Information for a Collaborative Environment

A great document from unexpected quarters Before anyone misunderstands, I would like to stress that receiving a great document from the Air Traffic Management and Performance Panel (ATMRPP) is not what is unexpected. It is more the scope of the document that was surprising, given its relatively humble beginnings. That the document is also visionary… Continue reading FF-ICE – Flight and Flow Information for a Collaborative Environment

SESAR and SWIM – things are slowly becoming reality

Good news at long last Not so long ago, I was asked to make a presentation about System Wide Information Management (SWIM) to the participants of a project we are involved in. While most of the audience noted what I said and asked a few relevant questions, there was also a small minority who expressed… Continue reading SESAR and SWIM – things are slowly becoming reality