CUSTOMER BRIEF Safeguarding the skies The FAA analyzes air traffic data to help planes keep their distance Making air travel safer is, of course, an ongoing effort – and a soaring challenge. Despite the current economic downturn, analysts expect significant growth in air travel in the immediate future. In response to this anticipated demand, efforts to enhance safety have moved into high gear with a series of unprecedented global initia- tives to redesign the aviation systems that provide for the safe passage of civilian aircraft. Mike Paglione is an engineer with the FAA’s Simulation and Analysis Team at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. Paglione under- stands that collaboration among coun- tries – the sharing of data – is critical to the s

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