Dr. Mark Brown is a principal researcher at the Japanese Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI). For the past 13 years, his research has focused on supporting the development of ATM concepts including Free-Route Airspace, Trajectory-Based Operations (TBO) and Remote Towers (also known as digital towers). He has published numerous research papers related to free route airspace, flexible routings and TBO.
He contributes to several ICAO and aviation standardisation working groups. He acts as an advisor to Japan on theICAO Air Traffic Management Requirements and Performance Panel (ATMRPP), and also supports JCAB at the Information Pacific ATC Coordinating Group (IPACG). He is currently a member of EUROCAE working group WG-100for Remote Towers and is the editor of ED-240, the Minimum Aviation System Performance Specification (MASPS) for Remote Tower Optical Systems. In 2023, he received the EUROCAE International Award in recognition of his contributions.
Prior to ENRI, Dr. Brown was responsible for the development and deployment of Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) systems at a Japanese information and communications technology company. His work included supporting the deployment of the first international ATN ground link to support an ATS Message Handling System (AMHS) between Japan and the USA. He contributed to several ICAO working groups and technical panels during this period, including developing and validating the future Aeronautical Telecommunication Network standards as part of the ICAO Aeronautical Communications Panel, then developing the ATN Baseline 2 air-to-ground communication standards as part of the joint working group RTCA SC-214/EUROCAE WG-78. He was also a member of the regional Asia/Pacific Air Navigation Planning And Implementation Regional Group (APANPIRG) where he contributed to the planning and deployment of the ATN ground network in the region.
He has supported the development of annual ENRI International Workshops on ATM/CNS (EIWAC) that pre-COVID had grown to attract over 800 participants with speakers from 19 different countries. (In 2022 the event was renamed the IWAC in responses to a new collaboration with the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences.)
Dr. Brown holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen Mary University of London for his work on 3D displays for air traffic control, and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering – Avionics from the same university. He is a keen virtual pilot and an avid reader.