Aviation security: NextGen Flight Risk Profile

This paper discusses the concept of the NextGen Flight Risk Profile (FRP), which is envisioned to provide a common operational reference model for depicting the risk assessment information, including a computed risk level, of all active flights in the FAA National Airspace System (NAS). The FRP is stipulated in the FAA's Air Domain Security Concept of Operations, which states that the FAA and its security partners will jointly develop the following: 1) A pre-defined set of security risk profiles that reflect the spectrum of threats which may jeopardize the NAS in any form. 2) A pre-determined set of potential FAA Air Traffic Organization (ATO) response options for each defined risk profile.