The document summarizes the contributions to the 2014 SWIM Master Class, which received 39 proposals across three categories. There were many participants and the quality was higher than the previous year. Meteorological services made up about half of the proposed services. The proposals demonstrated collaboration across ATM stakeholders, use of standards, and many applications that are already operational or moving to operational status. The Master Class showed progress in areas like reuse of services, integration of platforms and applications, technology interoperability, and cross-team development.

1. Marc Brochard - EUROCONTROL
SESAR - ATM System Architecture
OVERVIEW OF THE SWIM MASTER CLASS 2014 CONTRIBUTIONS

2. At the Starting line 2
39 proposals in 3 categories …
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20 for Services
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16 for SWIM applications
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3 for SWIM Technical Infrastructure
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Great interest with many participants
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Lot of multi-partners teams
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Great quality, much higher than last year
81 general agreements signed

3. Who did contribute …
Traffic synchronisation covers all aspects related to improving arrival/departure management and sequence building in en route and TMA environments. It aims to achieve an optimum traffic sequence 3

4. … and what we got
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TAF service
SNOWTAM service
METAR service
Airport MET Observation service
Airport MET Forecast service
RunwayManagement service
Airport Performance Monitoring System
WeAC – VAN (weather information) Adaptor
ExtendedRunwayManagement service
Assistant for air traffic controller in emergency situations
SkyKeeper Suite -- Innovative ATC system combining the management of arrivals, departures and ground flows for airports
ATCSim is a modern ATC simulation and data display concept
Geodetic Calculation Services (GCS)
Convection service
Sigmet service
Digital Briefing application with EFB integration
Wx4ANS - Weather Application for Air Navigation Services
SWIM Compliance Test Platform
Live ADS-B Flight Positions Data Feed
RPAS VLLOC (Very Low Level Operation Coordination) Application
RPAS VLLOC (Very Low Level Operation Coordination) Services
RPAS Mission and Ground Control Station HMI
SWIM Data Recorder
AAATCS - Automated Airport Air Traffic Control System
ASAM – Aircraft SWIM ATC Module
HADOC - Airport Handoff Departures Coordinator
A-Wake --- Your Flight’s Wake Vortex Footprint
CAPS - Collaborative Airspace Provision Service/Application
CATS – Contingency Aircraft Takeover System
ACDM Global Gateway
Pilot Situational Awareness measurement experiment
WeAC Weather Service
ASDS --- Aviation Static Data Distribution and Visualization
Airport Runway Configuration Management (ACRM) Integration
Swim-Box Platform
SWIM Bidirectional JMS-AMQP Mediation
Distributing AIXM 5.1 data using a Temporality-Enabled WFS (WFS-TE)
FATIN v2: First-steps in Airport and TMA Integration in the Network Planning
Airport Plan Network Integration SWIM Service
SWIM service
SWIM application
SWIM TI

5. At a first glance …
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many more services available in the Registry (e.g. NM B2B web services, volcanic ash mass concentration services, FAA Dig Notam Distribution Service)
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50 % of the services is .. meteo related …
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several services are already operational
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mediation services entering the SWIM world
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some proposals labelled platform & cover multiple applications and services
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‘New’ SWIM comers with RPAS, Wake Vortex related applications and services
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one of the applications is a SWIM Compliance Test Platform
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not that much proposals for SWIM Technical Infrastructure

6. SWIM consists of standards, infrastructure and governance enabling the management of ATM information and its exchange between qualified parties via interoperable services
Best in Class categories for 2014 …
SWIM enabled applications
The 3 categories in 2014 6
ATM information Services
SWIM Technical Infrastructure
Standard (..XM family, technology, …)

7. Business Problem & Solution
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Collaboration
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Connecting All ATM Stakeholders
(Airlines, Airports, ATC, Network, Meteo, Pilot, AIS …)
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Civil/Military
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Ground/Ground & Air/Ground (RPAS)
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Planning & Tactical
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ATM data quality
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8. Architecture / Technologies
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Advanced architecture
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Plug-in
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Multi layers
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Mainstream IT / Mediation
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Multi-techno ( … mobile)
(WS, WFS, WS-N,, JAVA, DDS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, SOAP, XML, ORACLE JDK, IDE …OCG, OMG, OASIS)
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Full ..XM (AIXM, FIXM, WXXM …)
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… almost COTS products
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9. SWIM Master Class 2014 is showing truly:
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Reuse - Services from many reused by many
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Solution interops - Platforms combining multiple applications / multiple services
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Techno interops - Standard IT Technology bridging
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Maturity - Platforms/application moving to shadow- mode or even to pre-operation
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… last but not least Cross team development
Major findings … very promising 
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10. Other findings … very promising 
Few proposals showing real achievements in terms of Technology interops (mediation and legacy wrapping) … but not fitting well within SWIM Master 2014 categories
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Infrastructure as competition category needs to be reviewed for the next SWIM Master Class.
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Many very good proposals showing real achievements in terms of both SWIM applications and Services
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did not make the work of the jury easier
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could have given more awards -)

11. What about SWIM Benefits?
SWIM will enable technical improvements like cheaper design, early (or easier) adoption, etc. These technical improvements will in their turn enable operational improvements like better situational awareness.
The operational improvements will contribute to the ATM Key Performance Areas (KPA) identified in the SESAR Programme.
SWIM enables better financial performance and unlocks new opportunities.
By using mainstream technologies, open formats and standardised interfaces, it is expected to reduce the costs associated with the development and deployment of new applications and services.
The service standardisation will facilitate the reuse of information in other contexts thereby contributing to cost efficiency.
The increased interoperability of data formats and interfaces will make possible a LEGO-like system architecture, in which ATM systems from different manufacturers can be seamlessly connected, eliminating the need for expensive tailor-made interfaces.

12. … and the Winners are …