Next-Generation Traffic Control in the National Airspace System

In 1935, a group of U.S. airlines joined forces to establish what is considered by many to be the first standardized air traffic control system.

Nearly a century later, the ATC system is primed for a revolution prompted by the influx of small uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, which are already taking on jobs from food delivery to crop spraying to policing.