MITRE Part of Team Honored with AIAA Best Paper Award

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McLean, Virginia, January 19, 2007 — A team of researchers from The MITRE Corp., NASA Ames Research Center, the Federal Aviation Administration, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory were awarded "Air Transportation Systems and Operations Best Paper" at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference in Wichita, Kansas, on September 26. The authors received a certificate of merit recognizing technical and scientific excellence.

The team was headed up by Todd Farley of NASA Ames Research Center, and the MITRE contributing authors are project lead Kerry Levin and systems engineer Dr. Dennis Rowe. The other contributing authors are: Steven Landry and Ty Hoang, NASA Ames Research Center; Monicarol Nickelson, Federal Aviation Administration; and Jerry Welch, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Farley and Rowe accepted the award on behalf of NASA and MITRE, respectively. Rowe said, "When you think about the nature of the AIAA conference—it promotes aviation technology, integration, and operations—this paper was really an embodiment of those goals. It allowed MITRE's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development to collaborate in a very meaningful way on a research project with NASA. Some of what we learned is now being deployed in en route centers around the country."

The paper, titled "Multi-Center Traffic Management Advisor: Operational Test Results," documents field exercises testing the Multi-Center Traffic Management Advisor prototype developed by NASA and MITRE. The test was the culmination of a joint research project to expand the NASA-developed Traffic Management Advisor (TMA), a tool that helps traffic flow managers in en route centers and terminals to meter aircraft into a single congested airport. The team developed Multi-Center TMA for airports located close to the boundaries of several centers that require collaboration to solve metering problems. In the field exercise, Multi-Center TMA smoothed traffic flows and reduced the need for holding patterns. Some of the capabilities demonstrated in the exercise will be implemented in every en route center in the U.S. by the end of 2007.

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