Royal honour for NATS

摘要

NATS, the UK-based global provider of air traffic services, has won the Duke of Edinburgh's Navigation Award for Technical Achievement. The award is conferred by the Royal Institute of Navigation, of which the Duke is the patron. NATS was selected for the development of iFACTS, which the institute has described as "one of the most advanced air traffic control systems in the world." Peter Chapman-Andrews, director of the Royal Institute of Navigation, said: "I congratulate NATS, and its partners Altran and Lockheed Martin, for having developed iFACTS, an important and impressive innovation that is proving to be so effective at improving air traffic safety and capacity, at a time when the long-term trend is for the number of flights to continue to increase."