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Integrated Air Surveillance Concept of Operations
integrity, confidentiality, and availability as needed within the domain, as described in NIST 800-
53, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, and
equivalent Federal guidance pertinent to the security level of the domain. 19 Controls used in
different domains must be interoperable and harmonized at the appropriate points to allow the
necessary sharing of information end-to-end. Access to information must be based on
appropriate processes, such as attribute-based access controls (ABAC) and proper identification
authentication, providing the proper information to the authorized user.
4.2.8 Quality of Shared Information
Requirements concerning the quality of data used for the integrated air surveillance mission will
depend on purposes for which the data is being used. For example, data used in providing
safety-of-life critical services, such as air traffic operations and weapons targeting, will have
stringent requirements for availability and timeliness. The components of the agile informationsharing
infrastructure must be designed, tested, and operated in order to provide the necessary
performance and availability to meet these requirements where needed.
The information sharing infrastructure will also provide support for higher-level requirements
related to information quality, such as:
Provenance - An information receiver may need to be able to determine and authenticate
the original data source and chain of custody of subsequent processing of the data;
Consistency - Algorithms for processing and analyzing data may need to meet standards
for consistency among mission partners (e.g., tracker, coordinate system, adaptation) to
allow for shared situational awareness and collaborative decision making;
Accuracy - Systems may have requirements for the maximum allowable error between
the data values and the actual value of the quantity being measured; and
Data update rate - Systems may impose requirements on the maximum time interval
between new information updates.
4.2.9 Geo-Coordinated Data
Surveillance data distributed for shared use at different operations centers will be positionreferenced
using a common global coordinate system. Data may be converted to a local position
reference system if operationally necessary.
4.3 Sensor Network
An information-sharing environment will deliver appropriately secured sensor data to facilities
for subsequent automated processing. This network will have applicable class-of-service
attributes, quality-of-service attributes, and communications protocols for delivery of near real
19 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-53, Recommended Security
Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, 2009.
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