Palantir, Thales, and a startup are competing to build the FAAs predictive air traffic AI
News Source : The Next Web
News Summary
- The FAA is building an AI system called SMART that would allow air traffic controllers to predict and resolve flight conflicts up to two hours before they happen.
- Three companies are competing for the contract: Palantir, Thales, and Air Space Intelligence.
- The project follows the LaGuardia crash that exposed controller overwork and aging systems.
- The FAA has received $12.5 billion from Congress for air traffic control modernisation and estimates it needs an additional $20 billion to complete the overhaul.
In short The FAA is developing SMART (Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories), an AI system that would extend air traffic conflict prediction from 15 minutes to two hours, with Palant [+7111 chars]
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