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Virtual Airspace Hosts a Training Program for Air Traffic Managers
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
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Overview
Training air traffic controllers and managers to keep flights running smoothly in increasingly crowded skies is a key aspect of efforts to modernize the national airspace. That’s why Leesburg, Virginia-based Mosaic ATM built the COMETTS training platform, which simulates conditions—including flights, communications, and weather—for air traffic manager trainees. Developed with SBIR funds from Ames Research Center, the platform works within the ATM-X Test Bed, an Ames project to help designers test their aviation concepts under realistic conditions.