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Robust Analytics Session # 4716 IBM Cloud in a US Federal Agency: How Bluemix Helps NASA Innovate Dr. Peter Kostiuk President, Robust Analytics, Inc. | peter.kostiuk@robust- analytics.com Randall S. Ho Consulting Solution Architect, IBM SW Services for Federal | [email protected] Insight for an Uncertain World IBM InterConnect 2017 Conference
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Robust

Analytics

Session # 4716

IBM Cloud in a US Federal Agency:

How Bluemix Helps NASA Innovate

Dr. Peter Kostiuk – President, Robust Analytics, Inc. | peter.kostiuk@robust-

analytics.com

Randall S. Ho – Consulting Solution Architect, IBM SW Services for Federal |

[email protected]

Insight for an Uncertain World

IBM InterConnect 2017 Conference

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Analytics Agenda

1. Overview of Air Traffic Management (ATM) research

domain

2. How Robust Analytics helps NASA innovate

3. An example of how Bluemix speeds Robust Analytics

research for NASA

4. Three top lessons learned

5. Questions

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Analytics Overview of ATM

Key Characteristics of Air Traffic Management

1. Responsibility shared among:

• Government and industry

• Pilots, controllers, and dispatchers

2. Require high levels of safety and reliability

• Diverse information with varying fidelity and timeliness

• Frequently at the mercy of weather

3. Mixture of advanced technology and legacy systems

4. Expected influx of new vehicles with greater automation

• And, of course, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)

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Robust

Analytics Phases of Flight and

Communications

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Terminal Wi-

Fi, 4G/3G

Connections

Ku and Ka Band Satellite

Communications

Air-to-Ground

Networks

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Analytics Airline Operations

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Network Operations Control System

Flight Planning System

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Aircraft Situation Display

Route Recalc RequestsAlerts

Go to Flight / Flight List / RoutesATM Surveillance

ASDIASDE-XCFMU

Recovery SystemsPassengers

Schedule Manager System

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SSIM FILE/ASMs

ReservationSystem

FLIFO

ASMs/MVTs

Air-Ground Communication

system(ACARS, SATCOM)

Airplane

Weather Systems

WX Feeds

WX Feeds

WX Feeds

Flight Plan Data

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Booked PAX

CDM Net/TFMS

Portal /FSM

Schedule Data

Flight Plan Data

TMIsAFPGDP

ETC...

Final Loadsheet

ACARS (Position Reports)

Aircraft Rotations

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Analytics NASA Aeronautics Strategic

Research Thrusts

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1. Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations

2. Innovation in Commercial Supersonic Aircraft

3. Ultra-Efficient Commercial Transports

4. Transition to Low-Carbon Propulsion

5. Real-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance

6. Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation

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Analytics Active ATM Research Areas

1. Trajectory Based Operations (TBO)

1) Gate-to-gate flight planning and management

2) Increased automation and negotiation between operators

and FAA

2. Real-time System-wide Safety Assurance

3. Airspace Technology Demonstrations

1) Optimized descents

2) Integrated arrivals and departures

3) Traffic flow management

4. UAS Traffic Management System

1) Small vehicles

2) Operating at low altitude

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Analytics Active Research Topics

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= New Applications

= Legacy Applications

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Analytics How Robust Analytics Helps NASA

Innovate

• Develop air traffic management

technologies,

• Demonstrate their value through modeling,

simulation, and operational tests; and

• Deploy technology solutions for airlines

and the FAA to improve the efficiency and

safety of flight operations

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Develop – Demonstrate – Deploy

Develop – Demonstrate – Deploy

Air Traffic Management Solutions

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Analytics

How Robust Analytics Helps NASA

Innovate

• Identify promising ideas early in the research

process

– Conduct initial operational, economic, and safety impact

analyses

– Assist managers develop the research portfolio

• Develop prototypes for concepts proposed by

NASA and awarded through full and open

competition

– NASA Research Announcement (NRA) process and other

procurements

• Propose new ideas through the Small Business

Innovation Research (SBIR) annual solicitation

• Develop new ideas with company internal research

funds

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Analytics Multiple Hurdles to Deployment

1. Operational Impact: does

the proposed concept

increase capacity or

reduce flight time?

2. Economic Impact: will the

airline operating cost

change and will revenue

increase?

3. Safety Impact: will risk

increase or decrease?

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Operations Economics

Safety

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Analytics Development Environment for ATM

Research

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HubAOC Gateway

LaRC SNTB DDS Messaging System

WSI Fusion

Flight Plan Data

LaRC SMART NAS Test Bed

Flight Planning System

WSI SWIM & Weather Data

Flight Schedule

FAA SWIM - TFMS

NASA SNTB User

RA Analyst

Cloud Data Warehouse

NASA Firewall

Flight Schedule

Robust Analytics Mini

Test Bed

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Analytics

Capabilities to Accelerate Research and

Development

• Rapid prototyping to explore new concepts and

algorithms

• Fast-time modeling and simulation to mature

concepts and estimate benefits

• Real-time and shadow mode testing and

demonstration

• Integration with NASA laboratories through the

SMART NAS Test Bed

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End-to-end process requires access to lots of data

(traffic, flight plans, weather, navigation), flexible

processing capabilities, analytical services, and

scalable architectures

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Analytics How Bluemix Speeds Robust Analytics

Research for NASA: An Example

Data

Analyzer Mobile

Server-Side

Road traffic state

In-terminal pax

traffic state (Bluemix

IoT/Data/Analytics) (Bluemix Mobile)

On-time departure

Bluemix cloud environment

Key

Non-traditional data source

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1 3 4

Mobile App

• Location service

• Door departure deadlines

• Pax Travel time prediction

• Flight updates

• Gate

Flight Information

Customer Sales & Service

Airline Passenger tracking

Airline departure control

system

Mobile (Client-Side)

Server

Airline Interface For gate agent, web app

accessed through a

browser

Integration Bus

5 6

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Analytics How Bluemix Speeds Robust Analytics

Research for NASA: An Example (Cont.)

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Geospatial

Services

MQTT

Data Analyzer

Core SDK

Mobile (Client-Side) Server

Push SDK

Cloudant

SDK

1

Push

Notifications

2

3

4

5

Cloudant

NoSQL DB 6

Mobile (Server-Side)

7 Core

Logic 8 Airline Web

App (Liberty

for Java)

Airline Interface

API 10

Integration Bus

Gate

Agent

Flight Information

Customer Sales & Service

Airline Passenger tracking

Airline departure control

system

Cloudant

NoSQL DB 6

B

9

Gate

Agent UI

C A D

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Analytics Other Bluemix Capabilities for Aviation Research

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Bluemix Services:

• Weather (TWC/WSI data and API)

• Spark Streaming

• Watson Speech2Text/Text2Speech

• Watson Tonal Analysis

• Watson Machine Learning

Aviation Research Areas:

• Real-Time System-Wide Safety

Assurance

• Trajectory-Based Operations

• Airspace Technology Demos

• UAS Integration into NAS

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Robust

Analytics Challenges

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• Integration with Peer Cloud and On-Prem Applications - Interoperation

- Latency

- Security

• Federal Cloud Security Assurance: FedRAMP - Production environments require initial certification and ongoing

monitoring for FedRAMP compliance

- Rapid advances and open source vs. demand for security

assurance

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Analytics Top Three Lessons Learned

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• Lesson 1: What worked - Use Bluemix for rapid prototyping

- Find best alternatives fast

• Lesson 2: What worked - Leverage Architecture Center & Catalog for pattern reuse

• Lesson 3: What did not work - Proprietary technologies need extra justification to win NASA research

awards

- NASA researchers tend to favor open technologies

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