# Presentation: 850102

## FAA Data Management Program

**An Overview**
**March 31, 2005**

**Office of the Chief Information Officer**
**Information Management Division**

**Why Data Management **
**& **
**What Is It**

## Why Data Management

** ****1999 ****15,000 data migrations projects started, budgets over $3million: Est. cost -**** *****$95 Billion – 88% Expected to fail***

** ****1998  ****74% of IT projects hit project overruns/failures, Cost:****  *****$100 Billion***

** ****September 11, 2001 – ****Information voids:**** *****Loss of life, property & security***

** ****1995  ****Data Redundancy Est. Cost:**** *****$25K per occurrence***

** ****1995 ****#1 Risk to data warehouse projects:**** *****poor data quality***

**Recent Studies & Events:**

** ****February 1, 2003 – ****Space Shuttle Columbia:**** *****LOCV***

## Why Data Management

**Why Data Management**

**Primary Reasons:**

**1.**** ****Lack of understanding source data**

**3. Lack of understanding source data quality**

**2.**** ****Lack of understanding business needs**

## What is Data Management

**Objective:**

## What is Data Management

**Systematic approach to maintaining an organization’s data assets to ensure the timely conveyance of data throughout the enterprise through:**

** ****Data Standards**

** ****Data Stewardship**

** ****Data Quality**

**Notes:**
Information Stewardship is ..... the willingness to be accountable for a set of business information for the well  being of the larger organization ... 

## What is Data Management

**Data Standards involve:**

** ****Clear, concise definition and representation of data within a given context**

** ****Publishing and maintaining accurate information specifications (metadata), including registration and certification**

** ****Accurate classification of data sensitivity and data quality measures**

**Notes:**
Information Stewardship is ..... the willingness to be accountable for a set of business information for the well  being of the larger organization ... 

## What is Data Management

**Reliability – the degree to which processed and stored data meet the information requirements of the business**

**Accuracy – the degree to which processed and stored data reflects the true condition of the business**

**Security – the degree to which processed and stored data is safeguarded in terms of confidentiality, integrity and availability**

**Remediation – the degree to which processed and stored data achieves thresholds of acceptability **

**What is Data Management**

## What is Data Management

**Stewardship is**** ****... the recognition that all individual components of an enterprise serve to ensure the future of the total organization.**

**Notes:**
Information Stewardship is ..... the willingness to be accountable for a set of business information for the well  being of the larger organization ... 

## What is Data Management

**Information / Data Stewardship to:**

**Ensure the completeness, accuracy, and security of data standards in areas of responsibility**

** ****Understand and validate the enterprise information architecture**

** ****Represent all business areas on a stewardship council and work together for the welfare of the enterprise**

**Actively promote the timely conveyance of data throughout the enterprise**

**Notes:**
Information Stewardship is ..... the willingness to be accountable for a set of business information for the well  being of the larger organization ... 

## FAA Data Management Program

## FAA Data Management Program - Goals

-   **Promote FAA data as a sharable corporate resource**
**  ****Improve data quality, reliability and security**
**  ****Resolve data inconsistencies and redundancies**
**  ****Reduce translation / transformation requirements**
**  ****Reduce development and maintenance costs. **

**Notes:**
Sharable (within the agency and with external users), less costly to assemble, and easier to assess in terms of integrity and accuracy.  
  Data standardization will improve data reliability, improve information system interoperability and interfaces, improve data quality, and reduce development costs.  
  Data standardization will help to resolve inconsistent data definitions (i.e. is aircraft speed represented in ground speed, true airspeed, or indicated airspeed) and how the data is expressed (knots or miles per hour) and the data precision.  
  Consistent data standards will reduce the need to translate data to different standards or different coordinate systems when data is transferred between systems. 

## FAA Data Management Program - Principles

- In view of the critical nature of FAA’s mission, the quality and reliability of its information and information systems is of the utmost importance.  Data are the fundamental components of information and are considered critical resources.
- In order to ensure the quality and reliability of the data resources, data must be understood by all areas requiring it.
- Data must be consistently represented or standardized to support uniform identification, definition, classification, management, and interchange of data elements and other data concepts.
- The focus of data management is on the sharing data throughout FAA, the DOT, the federal government, the international aviation community, and the public.

## FAA Data Management Program - Components

-   **FAA Order 1375.1** – Data Management – establish agency wide program and requirements
-   **Process** – Data standardization and governance (configuration controlled through the NIAC, NAS CCB)
**  ****Tools and Resources:**
** ****FAA Data Registry (FDR) – ISO/IEC 11179**
-  **Data Architecture**
-  **Enterprise Architecture**

**Notes:**
COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS: 

## FAA Data Management Program - Agency-wide Work

-  **Total Data Standardized**: 130 +/- data elements related to Aircraft, Airport, Radar, Weather, Various Adaptation Data, includes 35 international data standards
-  **Currently In Development &**** Evaluation:** 138 +/- in must eval; 650 +/- in development
-  **Collaboration:** with major IT program managers to incorporate existing standards and develop new data standards; i.e., SASO, ERAM, AVS Safety Mgt System, HAZMAT (Department-wide)

## FAA Data Management Program - International and Interagency Leadership

**CAST/ICAO Common Taxonomy Team (CICTT)**** – ** establish common language to share aviation safety data
**EuroControl** - establishing standards for sharing operational air traffic data (AIXM / AICM)
**Federal Enterprise Architecture** – federal government wide business, process, technical, service and data reference models
**Federal Metadata Management Consortium**** **–** **35+ federal agencies to collaborate in data standards & data management practices

**Notes:**
COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS: 
  CAST/ICAO Common Taxonomy Team (CICTT) – Aircraft identification and grouping, Aircraft Engine identification and grouping, Occurrence Categories, Phases of Flight 

   EuroControl - AICM/AIXM – Eurocontrol, FAA & NIMA establishing standards for air space and air traffic data
   Federal Enterprise Architecture – DoD releasing reference models with sections on aviation.
 Federal Data Registries User Group – founded consortium of 30+ federal agencies to promote sound metadata management practices across Federal Government Agencies through collaborative work in the use of data registries and sharing metadata, products, resources, know-how, and lessons learned.

## FAA Data Management Program – Policies & Procedures

**FAA Order 1375.1C – Data Management Policy**
**FAA STD-060 Rev. B – Data Standards for the NAS**
**FAA STD-025 Rev. E – Preparing Interface Documents**
**NAS Information Architecture Committee (NIAC) Charter**
**NIAC Operating Procedures**
**NAS Standardization Procedures Version 2**

## FAA Data Management Program – Data Standardization Process

**Notes:**
General Process:
Data Requirements – work with business
Determine Need – check registry
Specify candidate data elements for standardization
Submit to peer review
Submit to configuration management process
Implement and maintain data standards

## Food for Thought ....

## Thank You for Your Interest

**For more information contact:**

**Tom Fulcher, AOT-300 Division Manager – 202-385-8056**
**- OR -**
**Diana C Young, FAA Data Registrar – 202-385-8056**
**diana.young@faa.gov**