Washington, DC, June 5 – Adsystech, Inc. has announced that Ron Nichol, a 42-year veteran of the air traffic control community, has been honored with the Clifford Burton Medallion Award for lifetime achievement by the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA). The award was announced by ATCA in April 2002.

Nichol spent more than 42 years with the FAA starting as a controller in 1960 and completed his federal service in 1991 as the Air Traffic Hub Manager (Facility Chief), Austin, TX Tower/TRACON.  He was responsible for a Level IV facility and directing the activities of multiple towers and TRACONS in the hub.  He also was responsible for coordination with the heads of other FAA entities and civil/military organizations to negotiate and decide on work-related changes affecting the national airspace system.  He is currently a senior site coordinator for the Runway Status Lights Program with Adsystech at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport.  Previously, Nichol supported the Terminal/En Route Integrated Products Team, AOZ-500, as the on-site coordinator for the Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS) program at DFW TRACON and Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center.
 

The ATCA Clifford Burton Medallion Award recognizes a person for outstanding long term achievement, contributions, and support of the Air Traffic Control Association. The award is named for Clifford P. "Cliff" Burton, the ATCA's first executive director, who died in 1997 at age 92. The award was based on Ron Nichol’s years of service and over 20 years of contributions to ATCA’s Publications Committee and the Journal of Air Traffic Control.
 

In his current position, Nichol leads the Adsystech effort in supporting MIT/Lincoln Laboratories for the Runway Status Lights (RWSL) Program.  RWSL is a radar-based safety system to prevent runway incursions and/or high-hazard situations involving the runway.  RWSL is comprised of a set of automatically controlled runway status lights designed to improve situational awareness of the runways' status by informing pilots and ground vehicle operators when a runway is unsafe to enter/cross or to begin takeoff.

Adsystech's expertise in air traffic control systems includes system engineering and technical assistance and program management. Specific support areas include mission support, including risk management and NAS system architecture analysis; functional analysis and requirements management and traceability; system operations, including en route tools operational evaluation; systems safety engineering and analyses, including operational safety assessments and comparative safety assessments; and information technology. The company's Aviation Group, headquartered in Washington, DC, maintains personnel in support of the FAA in Silver Spring, MD, and at ARTCCs in Cleveland OH, Chicago IL, Indianapolis IN, Kansas City KS, Memphis TN and Leesburg, and at DFW TX. Adsystech also maintains contracts with the Technical Center in Atlantic City NJ and the Logistics Center in Oklahoma City OK.

With its Principal Office in Washington DC, the company also has offices in Atlanta GA, Baltimore MD and Raleigh NC, and provides clients with a wide range of professional services, including management consulting, information systems consulting and integration, and operations support. Adsystech also utilizes its Adaptive Enterprise Solutions^© (AES^©) Platform suite of products and its eInteractive^© portal platform solution to custom design and deploy powerful Enterprise Information and Application Services Portals “faster, better and cheaper” than today’s technology. More information about Adsystech, Inc. is available at http://www.adsystech.com.

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