2026-06-22 19:43:08 UTC / 路透社
作者：戴维·谢泼德森
2026年6月22日 世界协调时19:43 更新于2分钟前
华盛顿，6月22日（路透社）——美国联邦航空局当地时间周一宣布，已授予空中空间智能公司一份价值8.75亿美元、为期12年的合同，对美国航班调度系统进行全面升级，以优化航班管理方式。
美国联邦航空局表示，将借助新系统确保空中交通需求的充足运力，并为航班管理提供数据支持。该系统将通过“在飞机起飞前统筹协调航班计划与飞行轨迹”，预防严重的空域拥堵和延误。
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该系统名为“空域、航线与轨迹战略管理系统”（简称SMART），可通过数据分析航空公司排班、天气、机场运力、空域状况及运行限制条件，预测交通流量并在潜在冲突发生前识别出来。
多家航空公司已就该项目与美国联邦航空局沟通数月，但私下里对该局将如何在冲突发生时决定哪些航班需要调整，以及该系统能否赶在今年秋季前投入使用表示担忧。
面对持续增长的航空需求、跑道建设、极端天气问题以及空中交通管制员短缺的局面，美国联邦航空局多年来一直难以解决空域拥堵问题。今年4月，该局以拥堵为由，要求芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场的航空公司每日削减300个航班；上周，该局延长了纽瓦克及纽约其他地区机场的航班削减令。
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去年，美国国会拨款125亿美元用于更换过时技术、充实人手不足的空中交通管制塔台。美国运输部还希望再获得100亿美元用于进一步改进。
空中空间智能公司首席执行官菲利普·巴克恩多夫表示，该系统将采用“经过商业验证的成熟技术，目前已帮助各大航空公司及更广泛的航空社区实现更高效、更可预测的运营”。
美国运输部长肖恩·达菲表示：“我们必须改变航班管理方式”，并指出该系统“将从根本上重塑空域管理模式——在此过程中大幅减少数千起航班延误和取消事件”。
美国航空业主要贸易组织美国航空业协会表示，该项目将“在维持我们安全金标准的同时，让空中交通更高效、更准时”。
该协会表示，该项目将为航空公司提供“更高效的航线规划以及关于系统运力的更可预测信息，从而实现运力与需求的平衡”。
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US FAA taps ASI for software overhaul to improve flight schedules, cut delays
2026-06-22 19:43:08 UTC / Reuters
By David Shepardson
June 22, 2026 7:43 PM UTC Updated 2 mins ago
A sign marks the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., October 9, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that it has awarded an $875 million, 12-year contract to Air Space Intelligence to overhaul U.S. flight scheduling to improve how flights are managed.
The FAA will use a new system to ensure adequate capacity for air traffic demand and provide data for the management of flights. The system will use data to prevent significant congestion and delays “by strategically coordinating schedules and trajectories before aircraft depart,” the FAA added.
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The system, dubbed Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes, and Trajectories or SMART, uses data to analyze airline schedules, weather, airport capacity, airspace conditions and operational constraints to predict traffic flows and identify potential conflicts before they occur.
Airlines have been talking to the FAA for months about the program but have expressed concerns privately about how the agency will decide which flights will need to be moved when there are conflicts and whether the system can be rolled out as soon as this fall.
Facing rising demand, runway construction, severe weather issues and air traffic controller shortfalls, the FAA has struggled to address congestion issues for years. The agency ordered airlines at Chicago O’Hare in April to cut 300 daily flights, citing congestion concerns, and last week extended flight cuts at Newark and other New York-area airports.
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Last year, Congress awarded $12.5 billion to replace outdated technology and boost understaffed air traffic control towers. USDOT wants another $10 billion for further improvements.
Air Space Intelligence CEO Phillip Buckendorf said the system will use “commercially proven technology already helping everyone from major airlines to the broader aviation community operate more efficiently and predictably.”
“We must change how flights are managed,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, noting that the system “will fundamentally reshape how the airspace is managed – slashing thousands of delays and cancellations in the process.”
Airlines for America, the main industry trade group, said the program will “make air traffic more efficient and timely while maintaining our gold standard of safety.”
The group said the program will provide carriers with “more efficient routings and more predictable information about system capacity in order to balance capacity and demand.”
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Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Mark Porter
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