Politico: But it would not seek to supplant the role of human controllers in making the second-by-second decisions needed to keep air travel safe, two of the project’s three vendors said.
Instead, the project’s goal is to reduce flight delays and make controllers’ jobs easier by better harnessing information like airline scheduling data to reduce plane congestion before it occurs, according to aerospace technology company Thales and software firm Air Space Intelligence. Palantir, the third technology corporation involved in the effort, declined to comment…