Metron Aviation. The Science of Harmonizing Air Traffic

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.

Dulles, Virginia—March 5^th, 2010— Metron Aviation announced today that Stuart Ratcliffe has joined its Commercial Products and Solutions group as Vice President of Global ATM Advisory Services. Mr. Ratcliffe has over 33 years of air traffic control and management experience. He joins Metron Aviation from South Africa’s Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), where he was the Manager of the Central Airspace Management Unit (CAMU).

Dulles, Virginia—March 2^nd, 2010— Metron Aviation, a leading provider of global aviation services and solutions, has entered into a new partnership with George Mason University’s Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, located in Fairfax, Virginia.

Dulles, Virginia—January 14, 2010— Metron Aviation has appointed Greg Feldman as Vice President of Systems Engineering.  Mr. Feldman possesses over 20 years of experience in Air Traffic Management (ATM) research, systems engineering, architecture development, fast-time simulation development and analysis, product design and development, technical project management, configuration management and quality engineering.

Dulles, Virginia—November 18, 2009—The 28^th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) named Metron Aviation’s research paper Translation of Ensemble-based Weather Forecasts into Probabilistic Air Traffic Capacity Impact, as a Best-of–Session award winner. The paper, authored by Metron Aviation’s Jimmy Krozel, Ph.D., in conjunction with The National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Matthias Steiner, presents a mathematical method for the translation of weather forecasts into predictions of reduced airspace capacity.

Dulles, Virginia—November 5, 2009— Metron Aviation, a proven leader in advanced research, engineering services and Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) solutions, announces the appointment of Alan Bloodgood as Vice President of Advanced Development and Support.  Mr. Bloodgood possesses over 24 years of experience in Air Traffic Management (ATM), real-time software engineering, systems integration and program management.  

Dulles, Virginia—October 26, 2009—Airservices Australia has completed site acceptance testing of Metron Aviation’s Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) system which is currently being deployed at Airservices’ National Operations Centre in Canberra.

Dulles, Virginia—October 5, 2009— Metron Aviation announces the formation of its core team for the FAA Systems Engineering 2020 (SE-2020) Research & Development/Mission Analysis small business opportunity.  SE-2020 encompasses the FAA’s primary NextGen research and systems engineering support contracts that will support future air transportation safety, capacity, efficiency and environmental goals. Metron Aviation, as prime contractor, has assembled a core team with unparalleled domain expertise and track records in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS), consisting of Metron Aviation, Flatirons Solutions, CSSI and Sensis.                                              

Dulles, Virginia—October 5, 2009— The Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) has named Metron Aviation as the winner of the 2009 Charles E. Varnell Memorial Award. The prestigious award is presented annually to a small business concern for outstanding achievement or contribution, which has added to the quality, safety or efficiency of air traffic control.