The drive is on to transform Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) into Aeronautical Information Management (AIM). This is needed to set the scene for the introduction of System Wide Information Management (SWIM), the ultimate goal of the activity. The change from AIS to AIM is primarily the morphing of the traditional, package based aeronautical information system… Continue reading Single Sky Committee unanimously supports Aeronautical Data and Information Quality (ADQ) Implementing Rule
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Articles on System Wide Information Management
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – Here and now
That in ATM we are only now taking the first tentative steps to set the scene for the implementation of System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is not due in any way to SWIM being so complicated, it needing rocket science or yet to be invented technologies. Many an “expert” would make you believe this to… Continue reading System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – Here and now
SWIM – Institutional aspects first and foremost
Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine has recently published a very interesting article with the title “Integration Nightmares”. It is about the problems planners and engineers are facing in integrating the battlefield “system of systems”. As the author reports, high level military planners do not like to pay to solve complexity… Researchers have to weave… Continue reading SWIM – Institutional aspects first and foremost
SWIM, the external enabler – now read the book!
Towards the end of the SESAR definition phase the airspace users in Europe presented a paper, arguing that System Wide Information Management (SWIM) was in fact external to air traffic management and as such, its implementation could and should happen at its own rate matched to the need to ensure mximised, early benefits. The reasoning behind… Continue reading SWIM, the external enabler – now read the book!
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – the pretty picture
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is the cornerstone of the future air traffic management system. While the underlying concept of SWIM is not overly complicated, it does require a shift in thinking something that tends to result in different interpretations, some closer to the real thing than others. In the following we present an understanding… Continue reading System Wide Information Management (SWIM) – the pretty picture
SWIM in the USA
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is an advanced technology program designed to facilitate greater sharing of Air Traffic Management (ATM) system information such as airport operational status, weather information, flight data, status of special use airspace, and National Air Space (NAS) restrictions. SWIM will support current and future NAS programs by providing flexible and secure… Continue reading SWIM in the USA
At the cradle of SWIM
SWIM, well the name that is, was born in the early morning on a misty February day in a hotel room in Luxemburg. It was 1998.The abbreviation of System Wide Information Management, SWIM has now become an integral element of both SESAR and NextGen, the air traffic management development projects in Europe and the USA,… Continue reading At the cradle of SWIM
Why we must learn to SWIM?
The power of information is in sharing it… A document discussing future air traffic management functions passed through my desk the other day. The time frame was 2020 and the context, one can safely assume, SESAR, the big European air traffic management development program. Reading the document, I came upon several instances where the authors… Continue reading Why we must learn to SWIM?