Metron Aviation parent organization Airbus
Metron Aviation, a subsidiary of Airbus, is an Air Traffic Management Services company based in Herndon, Virginia, with secondary offices in Washington, DC and Atlantic City, New Jersey. The company specializes in concept engineering in aviation, advanced research, and software development related to aerospace, traffic flow management, surface operations management, airspace design and environmental analysis tools for the aviation industry.Airbus Acquisition
In July 2011, Airbus announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the privately held Metron Aviation, Inc. In 2012, Metron Aviation was reorganized and aligned to support the launch of Airbus Pro-sky, the Toulouse, France-based ATM subsidiary of Airbus. Today Metron Aviation has around 100 employees, down from a high of at least 200 in 2011.
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