Integrated United States Air Surveillance Governance Report
Abstract
Multiple federal departments and agencies have need for aviation surveillance information and have existing infrastructure, services and programs to meet those needs: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for administering the aviation transportation system and air security, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for airborne and airport security, and the Department of Defense (DoD) for air defense. The Department of Commerce (DOC) provides hazardous weather information and forecasts to aid agencies in situational awareness and in the use of aviation surveillance information and will likely use data from non-DOC systems with weather surveillance capabilities. The overlapping roles, responsibilities, authorities, and capabilities of the air surveillance mission partners have led to cross-dependencies among the agencies in terms of surveillance system ownership and use of the information produced by these systems, as well as an operational need for timely surveillance information sharing across agencies. However, there is no current institutional mechanism for reconciling these overlaps and coordinating policy, requirements, funding, plans or operations of the nation's aviation transportation system surveillance assets. Federal departments and agencies with aviation and air defense missions (hereafter the "IS departments and agencies"), specifically the DOC, DoD, DHS, Department of Transportation (DOT), and Director of the Office of National Intelligence (ODNI), came together in the fall of 2009 and established an interagency Integrated US Air Surveillance (IS) Governance Task Force. They charged the Task Force with examining whether and how IS departments and agencies might establish a governance mechanism to manage IS services in a manner that improves safety and efficiency of the air transportation system, and contributes positively to the national defense and homeland security.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 07, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA539584