What Is AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Committee)?

AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Committee) was one of the earliest e-learning interoperability standards, developed in the 1980s by the aviation industry to standardize how computer-based training (CBT) content communicated with learning management systems. The AICC standard predates SCORM by over a decade and was widely adopted in regulated industries where training content represented significant investments — particularly aviation, defense, aerospace, and healthcare. Technically, AICC uses an HTTP-based communication protocol called HACP (HTTP AICC Communication Protocol) to pass data between content and LMS, which is simpler but less feature-rich than SCORM's JavaScript-based API communication. While AICC has been largely superseded by SCORM and xAPI for new content development, substantial libraries of AICC-format content still exist in organizations that invested heavily in training during the 1990s and 2000s. Modern LMS platforms maintain backward compatibility with AICC content to ensure these legacy training assets remain usable without requiring expensive re-authoring. Organizations migrating from legacy LMS platforms should verify that their new platform supports AICC if they have existing content libraries in this format.