Baldwin Aviation, a provider of innovative, customized and fully-supported safety management and related systems for aviation, ground and fixed-base operations, has entered into a pioneering agreement with The MITRE Corporation and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to serve as a gateway for its clients to share relevant safety information with the FAA’s Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) program.
The ASIAS program connects approximately 185 data and information sources across government and industry, including voluntarily provided safety data.
The ASIAS program works closely with the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) and the General Aviation Joint Steering Committee (GAJSC) to monitor known risk, evaluate the effectiveness of deployed mitigations, and detect emerging risk.
Once a risk is discovered and it reaches a level of potential severity that it must be acted upon, the community (industry and the FAA) will work together to mitigate those risks and monitor to see if they had the desired effectiveness. ASIAS is the aviation community working together to continually improve safety.
The ASIAS executive board has approved the first protocol providing the opportunity for any Baldwin client to easily participate in aviation data sharing by inputting safety data into their normal safety reporting through Baldwin Aviation.
“The objective of this initiative is to make aviation safety and reporting FDM [Flight Data Monitoring] data sharing easy and seamless through our clients’ Baldwin software application,” said Don Baldwin, chief executive officer of Baldwin Aviation.
“The process is simple. Based on Baldwin’s Master MOU [memorandum of understanding], our clients will execute a simple one-page agreement with Baldwin that will allow access to ASIAS as well as receive output through Baldwin.”
“We’re honored to be the first organization entrusted with this new ASIAS protocol,” Baldwin continued. “It’s a major undertaking but one we’re pleased to accept. It originated after a meeting we held with the FAA and MITRE, a not-for-profit organization that operates research and development centers sponsored by the federal government, including the FAA-sponsored Center for Advanced Aviation System Development, in which we discussed our capabilities to collect, process and share data on behalf of the over 14,000 users and thousands of corporate fixed and rotary wing aircraft that utilize our services.
“It’s not unlike a share program we launched in California. We have some clients who have a direct relationship with ASIAS, as well. In our meeting with the FAA and MITRE, we agreed to explore the creation of a protocol that would allow our broader client base to more readily share safety information in an anonymous and secure manner. Since we already maintain and process our clients’ data on an ongoing basis, we can quickly report data that used to take individual clients a month to collect. By providing a single informational port to ASIAS, we have streamlined the process of collecting the data, made it more manageable from a legal and practical standpoint and increased the value of the data since it is collected, reviewed, and evaluated together and then shared in a fashion that provides the valuable safety information to a very broad audience of operators in the ASIAS program. It will allow us to create and share an extremely large and valuable database.”
