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Integrated Air Surveillance Concept of Operations
8 Recommendations
The following recommendations discuss efforts that are necessary for successful implementation
of this IS ConOps. The effectiveness of the high-level integrated surveillance concepts described
within this document hinge on establishment of an enduring governance mechanism that drives
forward integrated air surveillance as a holistic national capability.
8.2 Governance
Recommendation: It is recommended that the Air Domain Awareness Board (ADAB) address
the topics in this section.
Discussion: The integrated air surveillance concepts and capabilities described within this
document are based on a series of foundational decisions and technologies that are appropriate
for the ADAB to address as listed below, in recommended priority sequence:
Cross-agency sensor infrastructure development and consolidation:
o Determine the whole of government sensor mix needed (i.e., joint requirements
development).
o Perform cross agency acquisition, research, and development.
o Perform cross agency maintenance, infusion of technology, and management
o Ensure that cost sharing is planned into the process.
o Ensure that interference mitigation actions are incorporated into sensor designs
Shared information services across the surveillance community:
o Implement a service to distribute FAA flight data to authorized users in the IS
community.
o Implement a service to distribute Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) data to
authorized users in the IS community.
o Implement a service to provide automated threat alarm, warning, and notification
data to authorized users in the IS community.
Net-Centric infrastructure:
o Develop a cross-agency, Net-Centric architecture that describes an informationsharing
infrastructure and its relationship to agency systems and services.
o Provide a road map for implementing and managing a NextGen-managed Net-
Centric network and services.
o Set standards for cross-agency interoperability specifications.
Improvements in multi-layer security (i.e., common policy across agencies)
8.3 Policy and Guidance Changes
Recommendation: It is recommended that the ADAB review and analyze, and as required,
initiate and recommend changes in policies, directives, rules, and interagency agreements to
support integrated air surveillance objectives with an initial focus on policies cited in this section
and in Section 3.1 of this integrated air surveillance Concept of Operations.
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