Research and Development

NATS carries out research and development in the field of air traffic management including:

• Simulator system development and prototyping
   
• European research and development
   
• ATC tools development
   
• Real time simulation
   
• Validations
   
• Fast time simulation
   
• Safety and capacity analysis
   
• Human factors
   
• Additional work being carried out at the Air Traffic Management Development Centre at Bournemouth
   

IT Services

NATS’ IT services is responsible for corporate IT services and the support and development of operational software based systems.
 

System Design and Engineering

This area provides system architecture and engineering services, engineering design and project engineering. This includes:

• architecture and system planning
   
• safety, quality and configuration management
   
• new platform system engineering
   
• system design and evolution of navigation systems, radar, air ground radio and met systems
   
• system design for and evolution for networks, ATN, voice communications and monitoring systems
   
• building engineering and management services

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