Developing an AI Teamwork Assistant for European airspace is not a solitary engineering task. Bringing an exploratory concept to life requires a precise operational dialogue between the system architects designing the tools, the human factors experts refining them, and the Air Traffic Control (ATCO) community testing them under realistic conditions.

This multidisciplinary approach was the driving force behind the recent DIALOG validation week at the ONERA facilities in Salon-de-Provence. Moving a TRL2 project forward demands intense collaboration. We extend a massive thank you to the researchers, developers, and operational experts who provided the energy and the rigorous operational scrutiny required to make this milestone a success.

What happens now that the simulators are turned off? The scientific focus shifts entirely to the data.

Consortium partners have returned to their respective laboratories to process the extensive multimodal logs captured during the exercises. The immediate goal is to translate raw operational feedback regarding controller workload, communication flow, and interface design into concrete technical baselines.

This collective milestone was made possible by the dedication of Bertille Somon, Marianna Groia, Efecan Yilmaz, Erik G. Nilsson, Yannick Migliorini, Maria Emine Nylund, Souhir Ezzedini (PhD), Nicola Cavagnetto, Konrad Hagemann, Thierry ANDRE, Florence Arola-Batmale, Anne-Marie Brouwer, Amela Karahasanovic, and Jan Håvard Skjetne.

If you are interested in seeing how this ongoing dialogue evolves into realistic AI support for European skies, make sure to stay in the loop.