Tom White

Tom White is a seasoned Air Traffic Management (ATM) leader with more than three decades of experience developing strategies for some of the world’s most complex ATM systems, aligning people, processes, and technology to improve performance and safety. His expertise spans predictive analytics for capacity and demand imbalances, ATM and ATC procedure development for surface and terminal operations, airspace capacity enhancement, advanced trajectory algorithms, and UAM/NAS integration. Tom has delivered transformative results, including leading surface operations for JFK’s Runway 31L/13R construction project (documented in an MIT paper), developing predictive analytics tools that significantly reduced delays at U.S. and international airports, creating ETA trajectory models adopted by more than 60% of U.S. domestic commercial flights, and designing “auto-offload” procedures at Newark that sustained delay reductions exceeding 80%. Since 2020, he has served as Principal of ATM Consultants Group, leading a consortium of experts, advancing machine learning–based ATM decision-support products, and serving as a NASA subject-matter expert on UAM integration. Previously, as Executive Vice President at PASSUR Aerospace, he led solutions architecture, product development, and trajectory teams and secured multiple U.S. patents. His career also includes senior FAA traffic management roles at New York TRACON and earlier service as an MH-6 pilot in the U.S. Army’s 160th SOAR.