Ground Systems Scope Boundary
What Ground Systems owns and does not own.
Ground Systems May Own / Provide
- Air Vehicle Instrumentation
- Product Support Equipment
- Data access equipment
- Interfaces to aircraft data sources
- Support equipment for O-Level maintenance
- Equipment that enables collection or distribution of aircraft data
Ground Systems Does Not Own Unless Assigned
- Flight Data Recorder
- Common Junction Panel
- Aircraft sensors
- Air Vehicle system design
- CBM+ analytics
- Maintenance decision logic
- Integrity Program analysis
- Mission Reliability analysis
Framing SME Questions
When asking SMEs questions, first explain that Ground Systems is focused on the equipment and interfaces used to access, collect, or distribute data. Do not ask questions in a way that implies Ground Systems owns the full aircraft data chain or analytics process.