Case Study: Federal Aviation Administration achieves real-time situational awareness with MarkLogic

Federal Aviation Administration - Customer Case Study

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) required real-time situational awareness to monitor severe weather and emergencies across flights and airports. Their Emergency Operations Network (EON) needed to ingest and make sense of many unstructured sources—tweets, weather reports, news, emails, SharePoint documents and geospatial data—while integrating with existing tools, supporting high availability, and handling unplanned information needs during crises.

By adopting MarkLogic’s schema-less repository the FAA quickly gained full-text and faceted search, metadata, alerts and geospatial displays, enabling rapid ingestion, search and sharing of disparate data. The solution moved from beta to production quickly (initial capabilities in weeks, full deployment in about six months), creating a unified content repository, improving real-time analysis and situational decision-making across the agency.

Federal Aviation Administration

Will Lawrence

Chief Architect