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ObjectSecurity has delivered superior value in several projects in air traffic management over the last couple of years. We have specialised on secure IT integration of data feeds for air traffic management, airports, and intergated transportation. Our
 SWIM-SUIT: ATC System Wide Information Management Supported by Innovative Technologies
ObjectSecurity joined the already running EU FP6 SWIM-SUIT project as a middleware and modelling security specialist partner. It supports the development of technologies for System Wide Information Management (SWIM) for the future SESAR air traffic management system. This STREP with a total budget of 11,8 M€ provides vital input into SWIM for SESAR, the next generation air traffic management system across Europe. The main objectives of the project is a feasibility study of a System Wide Information Management (SWIM) implementation: Specification of the requirements for the SWIM prototype, validation of the technologies identified as enablers of the SWIM concept, and assessment of the organisational, legal and financial implications. The demonstrator will consider middleware and communication architectural layers. It will not consider air/ground datalink issues and operational requirement definition activities at this stage. In addition to ObjectSecurity, the project partners include: SELEX Sistemi Integrati S.p.A., THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE SAS, ADVANCED RESOURCES, AIR FRANCE CONSULTING SAS, ATMB, ALITALIA S.p.A., BOEING RTE, Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne du Ministère des Transports, de l’Equipment, du Tourisme et de la Mer de la République Française, FREQUENTIS GmbH, NAV Portugal, ENAV S.p.A, QINETIQ Ltd., SELEX COMMUNICATIONS S.p.A., SEA S.p.A., SECTOR SA, Consorzio SICTA, UNIVERSITY OF ZILINA, EUROCONTROL, INTEGRA.
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AD4: Secure distributed application platform for air traffic management
We were the security specialist in the 2-year duration EU AD4 project (EU FP6 IST R&D project), which builds a next-generation air traffic management system with innovative visualisation concepts. We are working on the secure communications infrastructure and security management, based on MICO, Qedo and OpenPMF. The other project partners are: Fraunhofer Fokus, a leading German software engineering research institute; NEXT Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA, an Italian systems engineering company specialising in space, defence, air traffic and telecommunications systems (project coordinator); ENAV, representing the Italian Air Navigation Services; Vitrociset, a market leader providing advanced technology services, logistics support, and simulation services for large scale IT systems in civil, defence, environmental and space sectors; SICTA, the Italian air traffic control research centre; ESI (European Software Institute), the Spanish software engineering research organisation; Digital Video Spa, an Italian animation company and world leader in cartoon animation software; Space Application Services, a Belgian company that develops control systems for space vehicles; and Middlesex University's Interaction Design Centre (IDC), based in the School of Computing Science.
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SINS/MDA/OPENPMF Secure distributed application platform for air traffic management
ObjectSecurity and the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) have signed an R&D subcontract to work on a project for NRL's SINS middleware for network centric warfare. The goal of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's secure middleware (SINS) and ObjectSecurity's OpenPMF policy management framework is to develop infrastructure for the deployment and protection of time- and mission-critical applications on a distributed computing platform, in a challenged computing environment such as the Internet, while using unreliable or untrusted COTS components. Government and Industry are increasingly dependent on the use of applications in a collaborative environment spanning multiple sites, by multiple agencies, and across multiple enterprises. In the SINS project, we are rethinking basic ways in which distributed applications are developed, deployed, configured, and maintained.
"ObjectSecurity has in-depth technical knowledge and industrial experience in the design and development of secure systems. NRL and ObjectSecurity currently collaborate on building the next-generation middleware platform for the Navy and Marine Corps that is reconfigurable, fault-tolerant, and secure, together with a model-based agile development process for the rapid incorporation of application-specific components. This technology is dual-use, with applications in military and commercial systems such as the pan-european air traffic management system, a prototype of which is being developed as a part of the EU project AD4."
--- Dr. Ramesh Bharadwaj, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
BAA Heathrow Airport BPM-driven SOA security study (model-driven security)
ObjectSecurity carried out a SOA securityroadmap consulting project for BAA Heathrow Airport. The study discussed the benefits of model-driven security and OpenPMF 2.0 for agile SOA security in a airport IT environment.
Further information
Air traffic management resources: flyers, whitepapers
Watch a video clip of the AD4 infrastructure in action
Video clip of the SINSATM demo
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