Air traffic management (ATM) encompasses the broad range of systems that interact with air traffic control, including traffic flow management systems, airline operations systems and techniques, and aircraft systems.
CSC specializes in applying the latest information technologies to ATM. This includes business rules, systemwide data and metadata approaches, and CSC’s e4SM methodology for developing new decision support tools and integrating them with legacy ATM systems.
The Results of Experience
With more than 30 years' experience in the field, CSC is active in both enhancing today’s ATM system and exploring new operational concepts for the future. Our capabilities include air traffic flow optimization, regional metering, air-ground data link, and tactical air traffic control for all phases of flight. Our solutions range from the research of new concepts and decision support tools to the development, deployment, and operation of ATM systems.
We research, design, develop and deploy new computer systems for:
- Air traffic flow management
- Near-real-time operations and control of air traffic using ground-based and aircraft-based technologies
- Strategic planning (several hours in advance) for near-real-time operations
- Analysis and modeling of potential future operational concepts and future decision support tools
- Security enhancement of the air transportation system
- Modeling of predicted future air transportation loads and potential benefits from new operations concepts and new decision support tools
- Enhanced human-computer interfaces
- Simulation, testing, and data analysis of decision support tools
Why CSC?
CSC has supported the FAA for more than 30 years and has supported NASA for almost as long as the agency has existed. Today we also participate in NASA research efforts, developing new concepts and prototypes for ATM systems of the future. Products developed by CSC under this research model are being prototyped and used in ATM operations.
CSC employees are active participants in the Air Traffic Control Association and regularly provide papers and conference briefings at the annual ATCA Conference. CSC specialists also actively participate in RTCA, the industrywide standards organization for ATM. Many CSC specialists are former professors or currently serve as adjunct professors at colleges and universities.
Related Links:
Read Next Generation Air Safety System Taking Off, our feature story about CSC's participation in a demonstration of Network Enabled Operations (NEO) technologies to support security for the Washington, D.C. airspace.
Read Flight Planner Preps Pilots for Lift-Off, our case study about CSC's major role in DUATS, a system that delivers the latest weather and navigational data to U.S.-certified pilots for free.
For more information:
Learn more about CSC's Advanced Air Traffic Management Center of Excellence (PDF).
Learn more about CSC's work for Public Sector.
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