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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, March 24, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

ATCA (the Air Traffic Control Association -

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) and CANSO (the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation -

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) are honoured to announce the winners for the inaugural Maverick Awards

presented by World ATM Congress (

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). The Awards — which received over 100 nominations in this first year —

showcase the brightest ideas for the future, recognise positive contributions

to the environment and conservation, celebrate cooperation between partners and

stakeholders, and promote overall excellence in the aviation industry.

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The Collaboration Award recognises the importance of effective relationships

and partnerships within/across disciplines and sectors to achieve a shared

goal.

This year's winner is NATS, NAV CANADA, and Aireon LLC.

Aireon's pioneering global, real-time space-based Automatic Dependent

Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) service was implemented by NATS and NAV CANADA,

alongside existing capabilities, to deploy new global air traffic control (ATC)

separation standards and create a revised concept of operations for the North

Atlantic region. On 27 March 2019, the organisations forever transformed the

global airspace by safely and successfully transitioning a new air traffic

services surveillance capability—space-based ADS-B together with new ATM tools

and ATC separation standards—into live service.

The Innovation Award recognises new ideas, technologies, and concepts that

challenge current ATM norms with the potential to significantly advance

performance, operations, or capabilities.

This year's winner is Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions and Scandinavian

Mountains Airport.

Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions and Scandinavian Mountains Airport built a

state-of-the-art, green-field airport equipped with digital tower services from

a remote tower centre in Sundsvall, Sweden. Controllers are now able to provide

services on-demand from a digital tower centre shared by three other airports.

With Scandinavian Mountains Airport being a seasonal airport, Saab Digital Air

Traffic Solutions' remote tower concept is a true enabler for efficient,

cost-effective ATC service for the region.

The Sustainability Award recognises leaders, initiatives, and organisations

working towards reducing aviation's impact on the environment and making

significant contributions to improving the environmental footprint of aviation

through ATM.

This year's winner is ENAIRE.

ENAIRE, in close collaboration with CRIDA, developed ENAIRE's PERSEO tool,

which generates fuel and emissions savings for every flight to, in turn, be

analysed to improve the Spanish air route network. In 2018, ENAIRE controllers

saved, through ATC direct clearance, about 7 million nautical miles for flights

managed in Spanish airspace, preventing the emission of 243,000 tons of CO2.

Due to the cancellation of World ATM Congress 2020, winners of each category

were announced earlier today via teleconference by ATCA's President and CEO

Peter F. Dumont and CANSO's Director General Simon Hocquard. For more

information on winners, finalists, judges, and honourable mentions, view the

Maverick Awards programme (

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).

For more information, contact Abigail Glenn-Chase

(abigail.glenn-chase@atca.org, Subject: Maverick Awards).

SOURCE World ATM Congress