Starting up "airpalette™", a new brand in the air traffic control field, and presenting eTOD Solutions as the first stage

Currently, according to ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), air traffic volume in each region is expected to continuously increase greatly until 2025, with an anticipated average annual increase of 5.8% until 2025 in the Asia/Pacific region alone.

For this reason, ICAO has set guidelines related to air traffic management for 2025 and beyond (Global ATM Management Concept) ^*1, aiming to support the realization of safer and more efficient aviation operations. In line with this movement, long term visions based on these guidelines have been set up in Japan, the US and Europe (Japan: CARATS (Collaborative Actions for Renovation of Air Traffic Systems), US: NextGen (Next Generation), Europe: SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research)), making the development of air traffic systems to cope with a future increase in air traffic, such as the creation of next generation air traffic management systems, an international issue.

Until now, NTT DATA, through the provision of the flight rule design system “PANADES^®”^*2, along with contributing to the realization of safe and efficient aviation operations worldwide, has been involved in overseas business in the air traffic control field. At this time, in order to further promote overseas business that can deal flexibly with various forms of business such as product sales business, service provision and system integration, as well as starting up the “airpalette” brand to unify NTT DATA’s product lineup in the air traffic control field, as a first stage service, we will start the provision of eTOD Solutions.