NEAR

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NEAR
NEAR is a research lab for faculity, staff, and students to conduct research based at the Daytona Beach campus of the most recognized educational institution for aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Committed to maintaining its high quality consulting services, NEAR carries out research in fields such as: cost-benefit analysis, data warehouse, fast-time simulation, real-time distributed simulation, probabilistic weather forecasting, metrics and methodologies, and human factors modeling and analysis.

NEAR customers are from areas of aviation such as: air traffic management (ATM), the avionics industry, aircraft manufacturers, communications providers, commercial airlines, and governmental agencies such as NASA the FAA and Volpe Center.

Highlighted Projects

Intergrated Airport
NEAR is also currently working with multipule corporations on the Daytona Beach NextGen Test Bed project. Click here for more information.

Daytona Beach NextGen Airport Test Bed
The NextGen Airport Test Bed is set up at Daytona Beach International Airport and is being funded through the Federal Aviation Administration. The Test Bed will provide the facilities for potential vendors of NextGen applications wishing to test their products. Click here to view the press release.

News

FAA Releases NextGen Update

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Air Traffic Management Embry-Riddle and Lockheed Martin Aim To Cut Thunderstorm-Related Delays
Industry, academic researchers partner to cut delays caused by convective weather
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NEAR awarded NexGen Test Facility “Airport of the Future” grant funding
In a government earmark award, NEAR, along with its industry partners, were tasked to integrate various applications on a common network enabled platform to be disseminated to all NAS users.
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