Trust Framework for Data Sharing between Industry and Government

Abstract

The aviation sector is experiencing an exciting, perhaps unprecedented period of innovation and continued unprecedented levels of passenger and cargo travel. Emerging concepts such as Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), Data Centric National Airspace System (NAS), and Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) have the potential to revolutionize our air transportation system and deliver substantial safety and economic benefits. Emerging concepts further democratize our aviation system, expand the aviation stakeholder community and evolve the roles of industry, government and academia. Emerging concepts require industry and regulators to work together to develop standards and policies, reimagine industry roles in aviation data services and traffic management and envisage seamless information exchange – industry-to-industry and industry-to-government. Success depends on new levels of collaboration, partnership and trust between traditional and new entrant aviation communities. While research rightly focuses on technologies and policies, it is important to understand how to build trust critical to the broader and deeper partnerships upon which new concepts depend. This paper applies lessons from other industries to inform how trust frameworks should be applied to achieve greater industry-to-industry and industry-to-government partnerships which are central to future concepts of successful information exchange, standards development and federated UTM.