The FAA deploys an Air Space Intelligence platform that anticipates traffic conflicts, first around Washington, as part of a 12-year program.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is committing $875 million over twelve years to its SMART program, built on software developed by Air Space Intelligence. The platform, hosted in the cloud, cross-references airlines' schedules, weather, airport capacity, airspace conditions and operational constraints to predict flows and identify conflicts before they form.
The deployment begins with the Washington region, one of the densest in the country, before gradually extending to other sectors. The issue has long been known: the United States lacks air traffic controllers, and traffic management systems are showing their age.
This contract complements a recruitment plan announced earlier in the year and a broader modernization of equipment. AI does not replace the controller: it intervenes upstream, on flow planning, where decisions are made in hours rather than seconds.
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