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Aviation Model Development
ATAC Corporation is a recognized center of expertise in the design and development of aviation models, simulations, decision aids, and analysis tools. For the past two decades, ATAC has been continuously involved with aviation modeling under contract to the FAA, NASA, DOD, and private industry.
ATAC's efforts have included the full development cycle, including functional and system specification, software design and analysis, programming and implementation, system integration, test and verification, public distribution, and maintenance and support. High-profile models for which ATAC has played a lead role throughout the development cycle include the Airport and Airspace Simulation Model (SIMMOD™) and the Integrated Noise Model (INM); both are worldwide standards for airport/airspace planning and analysis.
ATAC-developed models, simulations, and analysis tools have been designed and extensively used to address a wide variety of problems, issues, and concerns associated with aviation systems and operations, including:
- Airport/airspace capacity and delay
- Aircraft noise
- Benefit-cost analysis
- System-wide impact assessment
- Optimum flight planning
- Air traffic controller workload
- Advanced air traffic controller decision aids evaluation
- Military special use airspace and aviation training requirements
- Air traffic system performance monitoring
ATAC employs state-of-the-art methods and approaches in developing aviation modeling and analysis tools. These continuously evolve as advanced software development technology becomes available. Recent development efforts include:
- User-friendly graphical user interfaces
- Embedded database management systems
- Data warehousing
- Flexible report generation capabilities
- Object-oriented software design (using CASE tools)
- Modern programming languages (e.g., C++, C# and Java)
- Modern architecture and integration technology (e.g., HLA, RFS)
In addition to model development, ATAC is extensively involved in the application of modeling and analysis tools. A key to ATAC's success in model development is the participation of ATAC's aviation domain experts throughout the design, development and verification process to ensure proper modeling assumptions, sound algorithms, and tools that meet the needs of users.
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Data visualization, analysis and reporting tools |
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