Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) is highlighting its System for Tasking and Real-time Exploitation (STARE) surveillance consolidation platform at the Dubai Airshow. The system gathers surveillance information from GA-ASI platforms and makes it easy to decipher and disseminate, the company explained.

 


Earlier this year, GA-ASI (Stand 1480) purchased Commonwealth Computer Research, which had developed the Optix moving-map display platform. Now GA-ASI uses&nbsp;Optix as a key component of STARE, which combines real-time and historical data from a variety of sources. Using “big data” processing and analytics, it eases&nbsp;observation&nbsp;and interpretation of strategic and tactical data on the Optix moving map while reducing the number of people needed to monitor the various information sources.

 


STARE can also alert users to anomalous behavior, “using artificial intelligence to automatically look for activities or behaviors of interest,” according to GA-ASI. The company cited examples such as vessel-to-vessel transfers, failure to broadcast AIS, and violating economic exclusion zones, all of which show on the moving map&nbsp;once detected.

General Atomics Promotes Integrated View

The GA-ASI STARE uses artificial intelligence to warn users about anomalous behaviors by potential bad actors. 

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