Design tenets
Built for the analyst who has to defend the finding
AirPicture treats the hard part of air-domain awareness — the non-cooperative,
the uncertain, the disconnected — as the main case, not the exception.
Non-cooperative firstDark targets are first-class
The emitter with no ADS-B correlate isn't an edge case — it's the point. Passive-RF cross-fixes place it, and it gets the same dossier and workflow as any cooperative track.
Explainable AIEvery verdict has a "because"
Classification is a hypothesis with an inspectable evidence chain — emitter-library match, kinematics inconsistency, no flight-plan correlate — from the OAK AI EW Decision physics head, not a black box.
Honest uncertaintyProvenance on everything
Source, confidence and data age are visible on every entity — a two-station cross-fix shows its position-uncertainty ellipse, not a false-precision dot.
Air-gap graceOffline is first-class
The same workflows run on a disconnected enclave with data arriving by periodic one-way transfer; the UI shows freshness and latency per source rather than failing silently.
Pattern of lifeTracks become intelligence
Select a registration or operator and see historical routes, timing regularities, basing and deviations from norm — raw tracks turned into a defensible assessment.
BMS-nativeA module, not a new platform
AirPicture speaks the OAK BMS look and interaction language, so existing customers adopt it without a new platform decision — and it inherits BMS's sensors and COP.
