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This manual, while focused on the FF-ICE concept, includes guidance material on the high-level process by which information is provided, the operational and technical environment within which the FF-ICE is expected to operate, and considerations for transition to the FF-ICE. As this concept is intended to support the vision articulated in the Global ATM Operational Concept, this manual is written with the expectation that the operational environment will be performance-based and will meet the eleven ATM community expectations defined in Appendix D of the Global Air Traffic Management Operational Concept (Doc 9854).

The FF-ICE is limited to flight information-sharing between members of the ATM community. It starts with the early submission of flight information by the airspace users to the ATM system and ends with archiving the relevant information after the flight. It concentrates on global needs for sharing flight information but also accommodates regional and local needs.

The FF-ICE supports all the ATM Operational Concept components requiring flight information (demand and capacity balancing (DCB), conflict management (CM), service delivery management (SDM), airspace organization and management (AOM), aerodrome operations (AO), traffic synchronization (TS), airspace user operations (AUO)) and refines the Global ATM Operational Concept in the area of flight information management. It constitutes the necessary basis for the most advanced ATM systems and the development of four-dimensional (4D) trajectory management.

The FF-ICE constitutes only one information domain of the ICE. The FF-ICE represents the evolution of today's flight plan towards flight-specific information and processes required to support the Global ATM Operational Concept. The FF-ICE will use and supply information to other information domains such as: aeronautical information, meteorological information, and surveillance data.

The FF-ICE concept addresses the following topics:

a) provision and sharing of information between authorized members of the ATM community, which includes:

1) aircraft and flight identification, including aircraft capabilities;

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE

As part of the ATM service delivery management (SDM) component, the Air Traffic Management Requirements and Performance Panel (ATMRPP) proposed a mechanism to succeed the present-day ICAO flight plan which shall be developed to enable the realization of the Operational Concept.

The FF-ICE takes into consideration the requirements of the ATM community, including the military, to achieve a "common picture" in global ATM. The focus on cooperation should be, in particular, in the areas of data security, data exchange, data integrity, and data sharing.