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Aviation Systems Integration

Systems integration and program support for aviation modernization.

We handle the work between the design review and a facility that runs on the system: local data administration, site integration, deployment leadership, and the readiness artifacts that keep a rollout on schedule.

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NASAir traffic and aviation systems focus
Site to PMOFacility floor through program office
Sub or directSubcontract, task order, or direct engagement
NationwideBased in Albuquerque, on site anywhere
Services

What we do

Four lines of work, usually combined on a single program.

01

Local Data Administration & Configuration

Installed hardware only becomes an operational system once its local data is built. We turn national standards and facility requirements into site-specific layouts, databases, and configurations, then validate them with the people who will use them.

  • Requirements gathered directly at FAA facilities
  • Position setups, layouts, and data builds mapped to NAS-wide standards
  • Validation of data accuracy, interfaces, and interoperability across test and operational environments
02

Site Integration & Deployment Leadership

End-to-end integration across hardware, logistics, software configuration, and cutover, working from ICDs, engineering drawings, and technical baselines.

  • Site-survey review, readiness gates, and cutover planning
  • On-site verification, commissioning, and turnover
  • Cross-functional team direction across data administration and field integration
03

Readiness Artifacts & Program Tooling

The transition plans, trackers, runbooks, and briefings that reduce rework and speed adoption, built for the field rather than the binder.

  • Deployment tracking workbooks and per-site trackers
  • Offline configuration simulators and field tooling
  • Training scenarios, procedures, and closure reporting
04

Operational Readiness & Workforce Adoption

New systems land on people who have to keep traffic moving while they learn them. We plan and run the readiness side: procedures, training, validation with the operational workforce, and the change communication that makes adoption stick.

  • Procedure and phraseology development with facility SMEs
  • Scenario development, validation, and human-in-the-loop evaluation support
  • Readiness checkpoints and change communications for the workforce and its representatives
Clients

Who we work with

Organizations delivering systems into environments where the cost of a bad cutover is measured in operations, not tickets.

Prime contractors and integrators

Subcontract and task order

Embedded service-area leadership, local data administration, and site integration capacity on FAA and other federal aviation deployments. We plug into your PMO, carry a piece of the schedule, and report the way your customer expects.

Government program offices

Direct and advisory

Independent readiness assessment, deployment tooling, and operational-workforce liaison for modernization programs, informed by years inside the facilities those programs are trying to change.

Facilities and operational units

Site level

Site-specific data builds, layout validation, cutover planning, and training support for the people who will run the system on day one and every day after.

Safety-critical operators outside aviation

Selective

The same deployment, documentation, and continuity discipline applied to other high-uptime environments: utilities, transit, emergency operations, and regulated service operations.

Controllers working radar positions beneath wall-mounted sectional charts on an operations floor
Approach

How we work

Modernization programs fail in the gap between the design review and the facility floor. Our work lives in that gap: understanding what the system is supposed to do, what the site can actually support, and what has to be true before a cutover is safe.

We work as an embedded member of the program team, typically under subcontract to a prime or integrator, and carry the same accountability for outcomes as the people who hired us. Communication is direct, documentation is kept current and versioned, and nothing surprising reaches the customer.

Our people have sat on both sides of a modernization: as certified controllers and workforce representatives inside the facility, and as integrators arriving with a schedule. That is why our readiness work reads as credible to the workforce and our reporting reads as complete to the program.

Entity
Hatcher & Company LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company
Contracting
Subcontractor and independent consultant to primes and integrators; W-9 and insurance documentation available on request
Availability
On-site deployment travel nationwide; remote analysis, data administration, and program support
Leadership
Led by Travis Hatcher, former FAA en route controller and NAS modernization liaison with 20+ years in systems and operations. English and Spanish.
Contact

Have a deployment that needs a steady hand?

Tell us about the program, the sites, and the timeline. We reply within one business day.

Albuquerque, New Mexico
On site nationwide

The system is done when the people at the site can run it without us.