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Singapore Inaugurates New Air Traffic Management Centers
MITRE opens first facility outside the U.S. as Singapore strives to become an air traffic management center of excellence.
Singapore senior minister Josephine Teo, center, and other officials inaugurate ATM research and development centers. (Photo: CAAS)
Singapore senior minister Josephine Teo, center, and other officials inaugurate ATM research and development centers. (Photo: CAAS)

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) inaugurated two centers on August 19 in its effort to establish Singapore as a center of excellence for air traffic management (ATM). The authority described the new ATM Research Institute and the new Mitre Asia Pacific Singapore, or MAPS, facility as central to that strategy.