Metron Aviation. The Science of Harmonizing Air Traffic

Dulles, Virginia—August 26, 2010— Metron Aviation, a leading provider of integrated Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) solutions, announced the release of Metron Harmony for Airlines.  Metron Harmony for Airlines integrates a real-time and predictive view of air traffic conditions with airport surface operations to dramatically improve on-time performance, reduce tarmac delays, lower operating costs and provide better service to passengers.

Dulles, Virginia, June 30, 2010—The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded Metron Aviation the System Engineering 2020 (SE-2020) Research and Mission Analysis Set-Aside.  SE-2020 is the FAA’s strategic program for implementing the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen).  The ten-year contract awarded to Metron Aviation has a value of $1.15 billion, making it the largest single award to a small business in FAA history.

Dulles, Virginia-June 14, 2010 - Metron Aviation, a leading provider of integrated Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) solutions, announced that Airservices Australia has selected its Metron Traffic Flow product to support its long-term gate-to-gate Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) vision.  Airservices Australia is responsible for providing air navigation services in approximately 11 per cent of the world's total airspace and manages air traffic operations for 63 million passengers, on more than four million domestic and international flights every year.

Dulles, Virginia—June 11, 2010—The 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2010) named Metron Aviation’s research paper Dynamic Allocation and Benefit Assessment of NextGen Flow Corridors, as the Future Concepts and Innovative Ideas Best-of–Track. The paper, authored by Metron Aviation’s Ali Zadeh, Ph.D, Arash Yousefi, Ph.D., and Ali Tafazzoli, Ph.D., proposes a comprehensive methodology for design and evaluation of flow corridors – a new class of airspace within NextGen – to deliver higher traffic throughput and increase airspace capacity. Additionally, a benefit assessment was performed using NAS-wide simulation by comparing efficiency gained, against extra distance traveled when joining the corridor network. Authors show that much of the overall benefit may be observed by creating very few corridors.

Dulles, Virginia—June 3, 2010— Metron Aviation, a proven leader in advanced research, engineering services and Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) solutions, has announced the appointment of Peter Hruz as Subject Matter Expert, Oceanic and Domestic Air Traffic Control.  Mr. Hruz possesses over 30 years of air traffic experience, spanning oceanic, terminal, en-route, civilian and military control.

Dulles, Virginia —May 13, 2010— Metron Aviation was selected by Lockheed Martin to provide subject matter expertise for Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM), operational concept development, system integration and system engineering for the implementation of ATFM technology. The FAA recently awarded the Time Based Flow Management (TBFM) Program to Lockheed Martin.

Dulles, Virginia—March 31, 2010— Metron Aviation, a leading provider of Air Traffic Management (ATM) services and solutions, has announced that the company achieved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 certification for providing advanced research, concept engineering, air traffic management, software development, environmental analysis and commercial product solutions to the global aviation industry.

Dulles, Virginia—March 23^rd, 2010— Metron Aviation, a leading provider of Air Traffic Management (ATM) services and solutions, announces the appointment of Mark Gaffney as Director of Advanced Support.  In this role Mr. Gaffney will manage Metron Aviation’s support of NextGen programs near the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center (WJHTC) in New Jersey.  Mr. Gaffney possesses 30 years of computer systems experience including managing systems integration, sustaining engineering, deployment and verification of systems and facilities.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands — March 9, 2010 —The advanced Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) system deployed by South Africa’s Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has been named by Jane’s Airport Review as the winner of the 2010 Enabling Technology Award for contribution to enhanced capacity and safety. The ATFM system, provided by Thales and Metron Aviation, is deployed at ATNS’ Central Airspace Management Unit (CAMU) and provides a system-wide view for managing the entire region, approximately ten percent of the global airspace. The solution utilizes end-to-end Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) to increase capacity utilization and enables airlines to optimize operations by dynamically managing their allocated slots.

Dulles, Virginia-March 8^th, 2010 - Metron Aviation, a leading provider of Air Traffic Management (ATM) services and solutions, announced today that former FAA Administrator Jane Garvey has joined its Board of Directors.   Appointed by President Clinton in 1997, Garvey was the first FAA administrator to serve a five-year term and the first woman appointed to that role.