about AST
Truth you can land on
Mission
Precision for those who need runways safe and open
Our mission is to help prevent runway excursions and keep runways available, by giving airports and airlines objective, measured data on how their runways actually perform.
Our platform turns that data into three views of every runway: how it’s performing now, where along it performance stands out, and what’s coming next.
What airports + airlines get:
Evidence of how each runway is actually performing, from the aircraft landing on it
Section-level precision on where performance stands out, to target inspection and treatment
Hours of lead time to prepare as conditions degrade, and to time reopening as they recover
Earlier warning of degraded braking, reducing the risk of runway excursions
Our roots
The seeds of our technology reach back to 2007, when the NTSB, in response to continuing runway excursions at U.S. airports — like the 2005 Midway overrun — recommended that the FAA should demonstrate the technical feasibility of outfitting airplanes with equipment required to calculate, record, and convey the braking ability “required and/or available to slow or stop the airplane during the landing roll.”
Our cloud-based ABARnet™ Runway Uptime Platform is now recognized as a leading science-based solution in the industry.
Science, not subjectivity
Every capability starts from the same place: measured data from landing aircraft, run through a validated braking-physics model. AST is the only provider of ASTM-compliant aircraft braking action reports (ABARs) for any aircraft model, and the FAA and Transport Canada recommend ABAR technology.
ABARs
Measured braking action from each landing, about 2 minutes after touchdown, in standard runway-condition terms and formats.
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Aviation Safety Technologies (AST) is a portfolio business of the Chicago-based Dillon Kane Group (DKG).
DKG is a privately-held group of affiliated companies that builds and optimizes technology-based businesses across diverse industries. We formed AST to help the aviation industry tackle one of its longstanding challenges – reducing the risks and probabilities of runway excursions.
