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Aviation Systems

While our aviation work is focused primarily on key issues for the Federal Aviation Administration, we also work for the military, as well as civil aviation organizations around the world, on issues ranging from air traffic management to airport planning.


Green Air Space Design: Reducing Fuel Burn

NEW Green Air Space Design: Reducing Fuel Burn

October 2009

Can re-designing airspace save fuel for airlines? MITRE is looking at the benefits of reducing level-offs in terminal airspace, which could have the additional environmental benefit of reduced carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur oxides.


A Successful Landing: Modeling Chicago's Airspace in Real Time

A Successful Landing: Modeling Chicago's Airspace in Real Time

August 2009

A MITRE team worked with the Chicago Terminal Radar Approach Control and Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center to run human-in-the-loop scenarios to find solutions for easing congestion at O'Hare International Airport—one of the world's busiest.


TCAS: A Second Set of Eyes for Pilots

TCAS: A Second Set of Eyes for Pilots

June 2009

TCAS, the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, has helped keep commercial and military aviation safe since 1990. Today MITRE is working to help TCAS evolve as the new airborne surveillance procedures and applications required by NextGen become operational.


Clear Skies for NextGen

Clear Skies for NextGen

June 2009 Includes Video

MITRE is working with the FAA to generate new concepts, develop new standards, and find new solutions to evolve and improve our national airspace system. These new concepts, standards, and solutions are known collectively as the Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen.


Fusing Aviation Data: A New Approach to Keeping Skies Safer

Fusing Aviation Data: A New Approach to Keeping Skies Safer

April 2009

For the first time, airline black box flight data and pilot reports are being collected from 13 airlines and put into a single repository for safety analysis. MITRE is collecting the data for the FAA's initiative called Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing, or ASIAS.


Reducing Flight Delays by Managing Air Traffic Uncertainties

Reducing Flight Delays by Managing Air Traffic Uncertainties

April 2009

When snow, high winds, or hail hit unexpectedly, air traffic managers must scramble to keep commercial flight delays to a minimum. With the help of decision support models developed at MITRE, flight traffic can flow more smoothly even when the weather turns bad.


Virtual Contrails: Modeling Air Traffic Control Over the Internet

Virtual Contrails: Modeling Air Traffic Control Over the Internet

February 2009

By taking simulation experiments out of the lab and onto the Internet, MITRE is expanding the available avenues for aviation research and development. Our important step forward is our partnership with VATSIM, a community of aviation enthusiasts who use the Internet to simulate the global aviation environment.

   

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