Securing the Data that Powers the Skies
DataOpus provides the aviation industry with a new layer of visibility and control, revealing the hidden risks inside legacy systems while strengthening the integrity, resilience, and performance of every database that powers flight operations.
Identify hidden risks within your data platforms to prevent outages & impairments
Forensic-based modernization for critical aviation systems
The aviation industry’s future depends on modernization — but legacy infrastructure, fragmented data systems, and untested database platforms stand in the way. Critical systems rely on aging databases and legacy code that were never designed for today’s complexity, leaving performance bottlenecks, interoperability gaps, and data integrity issues undetected.
Every outage, system impairment, and delay in aviation points to one root cause: invisible data risk. Decades of legacy databases run unchecked — with no single tool for comprehensive analysis, real-time integrity validation, or forensic visibility until now.
Increase operational continuity quickly & easily
With the DataOpus Platform, there is a clear advantage — the power to forensically uncover hidden database risk, strengthen data integrity, and deliver safer, faster, and more efficient modernization, making every system more secure, auditable, and mission-ready. DataOpus identifies and creates actionable risks related to past outages, impairments, and recovery, including but not limited to:
- Data quality (integrity, loss, completeness)
- Latency
- Memory overuse
- Processor overuse
- Inadequate backups
- Lack of interoperability
Built for Current State & Future State
Today
- Identify hidden data processing and memory management issues that have led to outages & impairments
- Help fix the 58 unsustainable or potentially unsustainable systems
- Find undetected vulnerabilities and weakness across the entire ecosystem
Tomorrow
- Increase engineering efficiency with on-demand analysis throughout the day
- Decrease testing time with real-time detection of vulnerabilities, weakness, flaws, and smells
- Improve migrations with real-time data dictionaries and code libraries
And Beyond
- Futureproofed for the Info-Centric National Airspace System
- Seamless integrates into the Standards-Based Software Platform Layer of the Automation Evolution Strategy (AES)
- Built to enhance Multi-Regional Trajectory Based Operations
- Ideal for the evolving NAS Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps
Key Capabilities
Enabling trusted air operations through compliance-driven, security-first aviation systems.
Threat Discovery
Discovers vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and flaws in code, design, and configurations.
Supports Zero-Trust
Analyzes access controls and anomalies with logins and users.
Strengthens Resilience
Identifies issues that may cause outages, impairments, and inability to recover
Enhances Data Processing
Identifies hidden issues impacting memory and processor usage
Enhances AI
Identifies configurations, design, indexes, and code that will enhance AI-readiness while reducing hallucinations and costs by 60-85%
Improves Data
Identifies issues related to data usability, integrity, loss, and completeness
Seamless Integration
Compatible with FAA systems such as ERAM, TFDM, FMDS, and E-IDS
Risk Intelligence
Real-time actionable reports for executives, risk managers, and technology teams
Strengthen Database Resilience
Scrutinizing the non-functional requirements that matter most
Critical Requirements
- Security
- Availability
- Reliability
- Scalability
Important Requirements
- Maintainability
- Performance
- Data Integrity
- Compliance / Regulatory
Supporting Requirements
- Auditability
- Usability
- Privacy
- Portability
- Interoperability
- Data Sovereignty
- Processor Usage
- Memory Usage
- Sustainability
- Futurability
Standards & Frameworks
Supporting frameworks of standards and guidelines to ensure the safety, security, and reliability of their complex systems.
| Publication | Title | Relevance to FAA and NAS |
|---|---|---|
| NIST Cybersecurity Framework | Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity | Provides a voluntary, risk-based framework for organizations to manage cybersecurity risk. The FAA references this framework for airport cybersecurity and for the NAS Cybersecurity Enterprise/Engineering Facility (NCEF) [1, 2]. |
| NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2 | Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations | Establishes a comprehensive, seven-step process for managing security and privacy risk. This framework is foundational to the FAA's overall information security program. |
| NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 | Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations | Provides a voluntary, risk-based framework for organizations to manage cybersecurity risk. The FAA references this framework for airport cybersecurity and for the NAS Cybersecurity Enterprise/Engineering Facility (NCEF) [1, 2]. |
| NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5 | Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations | Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations |
| Publication | Title | Relevance to FAA and NAS |
|---|---|---|
| NIST SP 800-218 | Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1 | A set of fundamental, sound, and secure software development practices. The SSDF is referenced in the context of federal agency requirements for software supply chain security. |
| NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 1 | Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems | Focuses on an engineering-based approach to building trustworthy and secure systems, a critical aspect of NAS modernization. |
| Publication | Title | Relevance to FAA and NAS |
|---|---|---|
| NIST SP 800-122 | Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) | Provides guidance on identifying and protecting PII, which is a requirement for all federal agencies, including the FAA. |
| Publication | Title | Relevance to FAA and NAS |
|---|---|---|
| NIST AI 100-1 | Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) | Provides a voluntary framework for managing risks associated with AI. The FAA's REDAC presentation on a certification framework for AI technology explicitly references the NIST AI RMF [6]. |
Core Cybersecurity and Risk Management
Publication
Title
Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Relevance to FAA and NAS
Provides a voluntary, risk-based framework for organizations to manage cybersecurity risk. The FAA references this framework for airport cybersecurity and for the NAS Cybersecurity Enterprise/Engineering Facility (NCEF) [1, 2].
Publication
Title
Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations
Relevance to FAA and NAS
Establishes a comprehensive, seven-step process for managing security and privacy risk. This framework is foundational to the FAA's overall information security program.
Publication
Title
Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations
Relevance to FAA and NAS
Provides a voluntary, risk-based framework for organizations to manage cybersecurity risk. The FAA references this framework for airport cybersecurity and for the NAS Cybersecurity Enterprise/Engineering Facility (NCEF) [1, 2].
Publication
Title
Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations
Relevance to FAA and NAS
Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations
Software and Systems Security
Publication
Title
Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1
Relevance to FAA and NAS
A set of fundamental, sound, and secure software development practices. The SSDF is referenced in the context of federal agency requirements for software supply chain security.
Publication
Title
Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems
Relevance to FAA and NAS
Focuses on an engineering-based approach to building trustworthy and secure systems, a critical aspect of NAS modernization.
Data and Information Management
Publication
Title
Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Relevance to FAA and NAS
Provides guidance on identifying and protecting PII, which is a requirement for all federal agencies, including the FAA.
Artificial Intelligence
Publication
Title
Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)
Relevance to FAA and NAS
Provides a voluntary framework for managing risks associated with AI. The FAA's REDAC presentation on a certification framework for AI technology explicitly references the NIST AI RMF [6].
Protect Flights & Air Operations
Keep the skies safe while aligning to relevant compliance frameworks, regulations, and standards. Do not place your passengers and crew at risk when you can reduce threats and save money & reputation at the same time.
