Universal Decoder for Airborne Generated Data

The Navy"s need to analyze data from aircraft platforms for Maintenance, Operations, Safety and Training purposes is expanding exponentially as a result of new platforms and sensor systems capable of producing and storing vast amounts of data. Data is currently recorded in unique formats preventing aggregate data analysis. Creation of a common data format across platforms has proven cost prohibitive due to lack of common format definitions, encoding schemes, file types, or adherence to standards. Rather than costly modifications to platform data systems, innovative technology is required to create a capability to translate data from dissimilar formats into an interoperable data analysis system. The Universal Data Decoder extracts any platform"s data and provides the ability to direct the data into any other format, thus enabling data aggregation and analysis. This objective is accomplished through configuration rather than code for each new data source. The product provides an interactive tool to support modelling of input data formats, defining variations, and creating configurations and leverages existing platform interface documentation to automate the configuration, easing maintenance as new data is added. Specific benefits include insulation from changing data sources, quick and cost-effective integration to new data sources, and adherence to data standards.