ASI and AWS see the future of complex global operations

The US national airspace system (NAS) is one of the most complex operational environments in the world. Every day, over 47,000 aircraft move through shared airspace, navigating volatile weather, dense traffic flows, space launches, and constraints in real time. A storm cell, a ground stop, or a delayed decision in one region can rapidly ripple across the country.

The cost of being late—or wrong—is measured in millions of dollars, mounting delays, wasted fuel, and compounding operational risk. Many of the systems used to manage the NAS were designed for a slower era. Built to report what has already happened, they struggle to integrate fragmented data or anticipate how today’s decisions might shape the system tomorrow. As complexity accelerates and disruptions propagate faster, reactive decision-making is no longer sufficient.

Air Space Intelligence (ASI) is an American AI company leading transformation and delivering mission-critical decision-making systems to the aviation, defense, logistics, and energy organizations operating in these dynamic, complex environments.

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides secure, resilient, highly scalable cloud infrastructure essential for high system availability and mission success, ASI is transforming how the aviation industry manages uncertainty, optimizes operations, and reliably maintains safety at scale.

The challenge: Managing the NAS at scale

The NAS operates as a vast interconnected network where individual decisions ripple across the system. Weather cells forming over the Atlantic Ocean impact transcontinental routes hours later. A ground stop at a major airport creates cascading delays nationwide. Military training exercises require rapid airspace reconfiguration. Each element affects every other, creating a web of dependencies that traditional solutions struggle to capture.

Airlines collectively operate 25,000–30,000 daily flights across the NAS, each requiring precise coordination between pilots, dispatchers, air traffic controllers (ATC), and command centers. The aviation industry has historically relied on fragmented systems and manual processes that react to disruptions rather than anticipating them.

ASI’s solution unifies both data and stakeholders into a common, predictive view of the NAS, facilitating coordinated, collaborative decision-making that anticipates impacts before they cascade across the system.

“What makes our solution unique is how it enables seamless collaboration across the entire operational ecosystem,” explains Bernard Asare, senior vice president of civil aviation at ASI. “Pilots, dispatchers, and traffic managers view the same integrated real-time and predicted pictures and make coordinated decisions.”

AWS provides system reliability for mission-critical operations

Managing the complexity of the NAS is only part of the challenge. Security, reliability, resilience, and availability are nonnegotiable. Decisions directly impact safety, national security, and critical infrastructure, leaving no room for downtime or degraded performance.

ASI’s infrastructure is built on AWS to meet these demands. It uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for scalable compute, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for data storage, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for databases, and Amazon Bedrock for AI training and inference. This architecture is built for multi-Availability Zone resilience, with stateless applications and automated scaling using Amazon EKS and Karpenter to maintain uninterrupted operations under variable load.

“AWS enables ASI to securely build, deploy, and operate high-availability, mission-critical AI platforms that support continuous, uninterrupted operations,” says Jon Varsanik, ASI’s vice president of platform engineering. “Its global infrastructure allows us to scale across commercial cloud and AWS GovCloud (US) environments while maintaining security and resilience.”

ASI’s solution protects sensitive aviation and defense data through sophisticated AWS security controls including encryption at rest and in transit, least-privilege IAM policies with mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) for administrative access, and network isolation using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) with private subnets. For defense customers, the solution operates in AWS GovCloud (US) environments certified for Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Levels (ILs) 4–6 and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) compliance.

The ASI solution predicts the future to proactively optimize operations today

ASI’s solution represents a shift in how the aviation industry approaches operational decision-making. Rather than treating each flight as an isolated event, the solution provides thorough, predictive situational awareness across the NAS. By ingesting, fusing, and contextualizing over 150 real-time data streams including Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) System Wide Information Management (SWIM) data, National Weather Service forecasts, MIT Lincoln Laboratory weather, military airspace status, and operational constraints, ASI creates a unified operational picture that facilitates proactive, system-wide optimization.

For each of the data streams, ASI invested heavily in understanding scope, quality, and what Asare calls the “temperament” of the data. This supports the solution’s ability to provide predictive capabilities 8 to 12 hours into the future, which means decision-makers such as traffic managers, ATC coordinators, dispatchers, and pilots can anticipate and mitigate disruptions before they cascade through the system. AI models power critical capabilities throughout the solution, such as predicting taxi times based on weather and congestion patterns, forecasting how traffic flows might evolve around convective weather, and optimizing routes to balance efficiency across the airspace rather than between individual flights. ASI uses Amazon Bedrock for custom model training, refinement, and inference, delivering AI-driven decision support every few minutes.

Airline operations at scale

ASI’s solution supports operations for major US airlines, including United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Alaska Airlines, helping them drive significant time and fuel savings.

“Literally both the dispatchers and pilots are looking at the same picture of the weather, the airspace, and the same route recommendations,” Asare says. “Nowhere in the industry do you have pilots and dispatchers viewing the same picture and making decisions together.”

By continuously monitoring system-wide conditions across the NAS, ASI helps airlines anticipate choke points before they cascade into delays. When convective weather disrupts major airspace corridors such as traffic flows stretching from Texas to New York, teams can use ASI’s technology to make proactive traffic flow management decisions, respond faster to minimize diversions, and support dispatchers on the day of operations.

U.S. Department of Defense

As a dual-use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, ASI’s solution has been rapidly adapted to support mission-critical operations within the DoD. In a matter of months, ASI deployed its commercial capabilities into secure AWS GovCloud (US) environments meeting IL 4, 5, and 6 security requirements, which means defense organizations can field advanced decision support systems at mission speed.

Across the DoD, ASI supports the dynamic mission replanning and predictive command and control (C2) of air assets. It serves as a critical facilitator of the logistics kill chain, supporting the success of multimodal contested logistics in globally distributed, capacity-constrained environments. Joint stakeholders can use the solution to anticipate disruptions and coordinate decisions across domains and combatant commands, including U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), and U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM).

“The speed at which ASI delivered operational capability into secure environments changes how the department can deploy advanced decision support systems,” says Mark Lepczyk, president of ASI Federal.

Looking ahead: Transform your mission-critical operations

ASI is expanding its decision support capabilities to serve the FAA’s modernization initiatives, defense operations, and critical infrastructure sectors including energy and logistics. ASI and AWS are also exploring agentic AI workflows and advanced optimization techniques on Amazon Bedrock to further improve decision speed and scale. Organizations facing similar operational complexity can use more secure, resilient infrastructure from AWS to build predictive systems that anticipate disruptions before they cascade.

Learn more about building mission-critical AI systems on AWS

• Amazon Bedrock for custom AI model training and inference
• AWS GovCloud (US) for defense and regulated workloads
• AWS security best practices for protecting sensitive operational data
• Contact AWS to discuss your operational intelligence requirements