Karen Tung Cate

Ms. Cate is Deputy Branch Chief at NASA’s Aerospace Simulation Research and Development Branch.  She serves as a member of the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Coordination and Assessment Team (UCAT) and has been involved in air traffic management (ATM) research for over 24 years.  Her specific focus has been four-dimensional aircraft trajectory prediction for air traffic management automation.  Ms. Cate was software manager for the Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS) and helped develop processes for transferring NASA prototype software systems to the FAA for deployment.  She was technical lead for the Interoperability sub-project within the Airspace Systems project, which focused on the integration of different ATM systems.  She served as the Deputy Project Manager for the Ames Research Center for the UAS Integration in the NAS project.