DRRONE DOME™: A Federated Architecture for Interoperable Autonomous Aviation Ground Infrastructure

Uncrewed aircraft systems are increasingly employed in inspection, mapping, public safety, and logistics, yet ground infrastructure supporting heterogeneous aircraft and independently governed operators remains substantially dependent on manufacturer-specific equipment and operational arrangements. This working paper introduces DRRONE DOME™, a proposed federated systems architecture for interoperable autonomous aviation ground infrastructure. The architecture integrates three principal technical commitments: the explicit separation of identity, technical capability, resource-owner permission, and regulatory authorization; a three-valued compatibility model that distinguishes satisfied, unsatisfied, and undetermined requirements while preventing approval based on missing, conflicting, stale, or untrusted evidence; and an evidence-provenance framework that evaluates claims according to issuer authority, authenticity, scope, validity, and verification method. These mechanisms support an auditable service-transaction lifecycle incorporating reservation integrity, credential revocation, exception handling, and reconciliation across independently governed organizations. The paper further establishes principles for modular physical ground-support interfaces, layered engineering assurance, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory independence. It examines relevant existing standards and technologies, identifies anticipated technical and institutional tradeoffs, and proposes five falsifiable research hypotheses addressing compatibility accuracy, reservation integrity, workflow efficiency, physical modularity, and commercial adoption. A pre-registrable validation program specifies proposed experimental designs, comparative baselines, measurement criteria, statistical considerations, and conditions for revising or discontinuing development. The framework builds upon established principles of systems engineering, formal logic, digital credentials, provenance modeling, and aviation safety. DRRONE DOME™ is presented as a conceptual research architecture rather than an experimentally validated technology, certified infrastructure system, or established commercial platform. Its proposed technical contributions, interoperability advantages, safety properties, and economic viability remain subject to implementation, independent evaluation, and documented prior-art analysis.