A single, resilient solution for en route, oceanic, tower, traffic flow, and flight services. The Leidos Common Automation Platform (CAP) solution offers a future-ready hybrid cloud data mesh architecture that enables rapid deployment of updates without risking service disruption while meeting stringent security and resilience requirements.
Air Traffic Management
Learning from the past.
Building for the future.
For more than 60 years, Leidos has advanced U.S. air traffic control (ATC) operations by designing, building, and maintaining modernized platforms in the National Airspace System (NAS). Our expertise supports the safe travel of more than four million passengers every day.
That commitment extends worldwide. Through our SkyLineTM Air Traffic Management system, we help countries across four continents strengthen safety, improve efficiency, and optimize ATC performance.
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Leidos Common Automation Platform
Leidos brings unmatched operational insight, essential to reimagining the NAS to enhance safety, improve efficiency, and deliver seamless operations across all phases of air traffic control. With Leidos, a new Common Automation Platform for air traffic control is ready to deploy and deliver critical improvements in months, not years.
INFOGRAPHIC: COMMON AUTOMATION PLATFORM
Leidos Air Traffic Management Innovation Center
The Leidos ATM Innovation Center is a full-suite technology demonstration facility located in downtown Washington D.C. where the latest air traffic control technologies and platforms can be seen in action.
Leidos Common Automation Platform
Surface Data Management
Our Surface Data Management solutions, including support of the FAA Terminal Flight Data Management (TFDM) program, help improve safety, efficiency, and predictability in surface application environments for our customers while facilitating collaborative decision making for surface data stakeholders. Existing capabilities include Electronic Flight Strips, Airport Surface Data exchange, and Surface and Departure metering.
Advanced Air Mobility
Advanced Air Mobility is rapidly emerging and poised to revolutionize the future of air travel by enabling safe, scalable, and efficient transportation through the use of automated and electric-powered aircraft. Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, drones, and other advanced aerial vehicles will need to be integrated into existing civilian airspace creating exciting new opportunities for urban air mobility (UAM), cargo delivery, emergency response, and more.
Trajectory Based Operations
Leidos enables Trajectory-based operations through SkyLineFlow and the FAA's Time-Based Flow Management System (TBFM) by providing time-based capabilities to manage air traffic in the en route environment, Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) and runways. These capabilities enable full use of available capacity at airports and promote sustainability and efficiency by conditioning the flow of aircraft into airports via delay absorption before top of decent and enable Continuous Descent Operations (CDOs).
Accelerating the Future of Air Traffic Control
Safety at Speed
Experience to Accelerate
Security Sets Us Apart
Global air traffic management solutions
Air Traffic Management (ATM) requires resilient services, robust response, adaptability, flexibility, and intuitive failsafe operations. At Leidos, we meet these comprehensive requirements through a single system: SkyLine-X™.
We designed SkyLine-X™ to keep our customers ahead of the rapidly growing demands of the global aviation market, built the system from the best components of proven, globally deployed ATM technologies, and incorporated next generation features co-developed in partnership with ANSPs and technology providers. The system provides the latest ATM services for tower and terminal, en route, oceanic, and comprehensive flow control management capabilities.
Stay Ahead of the Curve in Air Traffic Management
As global air traffic volume grows, modernizing ATM systems is no longer optional—it’s essential. At Leidos, our experts are helping air navigation service providers (ANSPs) navigate the future of air traffic with confidence. Our experts have developed a growing series of white papers designed to share insights, strategies, and lessons learned from real-world modernization implementations.
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Intelligent Approach
Leidos and NATS have pioneered a product suite that blends technology and Air Traffic Control (ATC) expertise to enable airports to optimize approach spacing for aircraft through both distance-based and time-based separation.
Why Partner with Leidos
- SAFETY - mission critical experience
- EFFICIENCY - increase capacity to meet demand
- READINESS - Trusted expertise and supply chain
- SECURITY - Secure by Design + SCRM compliant
- ACCOUNTABILITY - Transparent governance, data sharing, decisions
- COST - Reduced facility, training, maintenance budgets
