Air Traffic Operations Laboratory - Where Ideas take Flight

The Air Traffic Operations Lab is a multi-fidelity, part-task, aircraft and air traffic operations simulation facility. Used to explore interactions between new airborne and ground-based tools in a NextGeneration ATC environment, including:
- Concept-level flight operations research, looking at human decision making, situation awareness, transfer of authority/responsibility, etc.
- Performance impact assessments of new operational concepts on the National Airspace System (NAS)
- Rapid prototyping of new flight deck tools and automation
- Concept-level safety assessments
- Identification and evaluation of future communication, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) infrastructure requirements
- Controller-pilot data link
- Precision trajectory-based ops
- Air-to-air data exchange