Mission & Benefits

AIC Mission

The mission of the Airborne Internet Consortium (AIC) is to define, develop, and promote the common system elements necessary to deploy comprehensive aviation-based digital datalink capabilities throughout the nation using evolving Internet technologies.

Public and Private Benefits

The AIC intends to undertake its research through collaborations with the public sector in a manner that will:

• Enable a safer, more secure, more cost efficient global airspace system by eliminating communications as a constraint on the economic viability of aviation related applications
• Facilitate collaborative research and development in the field of aviation communications
• Develop open systems architecture and standards for aviation digital communications
• Foster and promote general purpose, multi-application, scalable data channel protocols in aviation
• Develop intellectual content to guide public and private investment in aviation digital communications
• Promote international adoption of open systems architecture, standards, information management structures, and protocols for aviation digital communications
• Foster use of advanced aviation digital communications technology for public security