Real-Time ATC Communication Verification

Verified before
the aircraft moves.

VERICOM verifies the full ATC communication loop, comparing controller clearances, pilot readbacks, and live aircraft movement, so mismatches surface before they become operational risk.

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USPTO Provisional Patent Filed CAAI Regulatory Support
The Verification Gap

The ATC loop still depends
on manual verification

A clearance is issued, read back, and acted on. When these three elements drift out of sync, existing systems cannot reliably catch it in real time.

In high-workload operations, that gap creates exposure.

What is missing is the layer between them: independent, real-time verification.
Recordings
Preserve what was said, after the fact. No real-time mismatch detection.
Surveillance
Shows where the aircraft is, not whether its movement matches the issued clearance.
37%
of hearback errors undetected in the tower environment
FAA research on tower local control under operational workload.
40%
of readback errors uncorrected in the approach environment
Based on official FAA research into TRACON controller-pilot voice communications.
These Didn't Have to Happen
Austin-Bergstrom · Feb 2023
Fog blocked visual contact between two aircraft. ATC cleared one to land and one to depart on the same runway. A last-second go-around missed collision by roughly 100 ft. — NTSB, June 2024.
JFK · January 2023
Distracted by paperwork, a crew reverted to an outdated taxi routing and crossed an active runway without clearance, 20 seconds into another aircraft's takeoff roll. Surface radar caught it in time. — NTSB, June 2024.
Boston Logan · Feb 2023
Told to line up and wait, a charter crew took off anyway, believing they'd been cleared. A landing jet went around just 30 ft above the runway to avoid it. — NTSB, Aug 2023.

These three made the news. In the U.S. alone, the FAA recorded over 700 "pilot deviation" runway incursions in the most recent reporting year — cases where a crew proceeded without the clearance that had actually been issued, on the ground or in the air. That's exactly the mismatch VERICOM verifies in real time, before it becomes a statistic. — FAA Runway Safety data, 2024.

How VERICOM Verifies the Loop

Voice, meaning, and movement
in one verification layer

VERICOM verifies what was cleared, what was read back, and what the aircraft actually does.

LAYER 01
Clearance & readback verification
Extracts operational intent from controller and pilot communication. Designed for aviation phraseology, phonetic variation, accents, and radio quality.
LAYER 02
Aircraft-state verification
Fuses voice intent with live aircraft-state data from ADS-B, SMR, radar, and GPS. Compares what was cleared with what the aircraft is actually doing.
LAYER 03
Structured operational record
Creates a continuous verification log. Reduces manual reconstruction time and supports compliance, safety review, and operational analysis.
VERICOM console showing route comparison and instruction-versus-execution verification
VERICOM decision-support layer, alongside the certified controller position
Scenario · Similar-sounding readback
The mismatch
A controller instructs an aircraft to "hold short of runway two-five." Under peak workload, the crew reads back "holding short runway two-niner." Two words apart on the radio, a different runway on the ground.
VERICOM response
The intervention window
VERICOM is designed to detect that the read-back runway does not match the clearance and issue an advisory alert to the controller, enabling timely intervention before the aircraft lines up on the wrong runway.
The Verification Engine

Built for the thresholds
that matter in the tower

VERICOM is engineered around the three requirements that determine whether a verification layer is usable in a live operational environment.

01
Detection accuracy
Reliable identification of callsigns, clearances, and readbacks across aviation phraseology, phonetic variation, accents, and radio quality, so mismatches are caught rather than missed.
02
Time to alert
Verification within the operational window, while the controller can still intervene. An alert that arrives after the aircraft has acted is a record, not a safeguard.
03
Alert discipline
A low false-alarm profile is the difference between a tool controllers trust and one they learn to ignore. VERICOM is designed to surface mismatches without adding noise.
04
Calibrated to the operation
The detection layer is calibrated to each operation's accent and phraseology patterns, traffic mix, and workload profile, rather than a single fixed model applied everywhere. As traffic and procedures evolve, VERICOM is designed to be recalibrated, not replaced.
Performance is being validated through internal testing and staged operational trials with regulatory and airport partners. Verified results will be published as validation progresses.
Deployment & Security

Deployed where the operation demands
Secured to aviation-grade standards

VERICOM is architected for flexible deployment, matched to the confidentiality and infrastructure requirements of each operator.

Controller working position inside an active control tower cab
ON-PREMISES
Inside the tower
Full on-premises deployment within the facility itself, for operations requiring complete data isolation, including classified environments, security forces, and defense installations. No external connectivity required.
SECURE SERVER
Hardened dedicated infrastructure
Deployment on dedicated secure servers under the operator's control. Encrypted in transit and at rest, with strict access management and full audit logging.
SECURITY BASELINE
Aviation-grade information security
Designed for compliance with EUROCAE ED-205A / RTCA DO-393, the security standard for ATM/ANS ground systems, aligned with EASA Part-IS, alongside ISO/IEC 27001 practices.
✓
Regulatory support in place
VERICOM operates with formal support from the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel (CAAI), and is in active engagement with additional aviation regulators internationally.
The Commercial Case

Communication errors create cost
long before they become accidents

Safety events are rare. Operational friction is daily.

A preventable communication mismatch can trigger delays, go-arounds, runway-flow disruption, investigations, retraining, regulatory reporting, and legal exposure.

VERICOM is not only a safety layer. It is an operational risk, compliance, investigation, and cost-reduction layer.

$100.76
Per aircraft minute
Average U.S. passenger airline block-time cost. Every avoidable delay minute compounds across crew, fuel, and schedule.
$10K+
Per disrupted event
A misrouting, missed slot, or go-around creates cascading recovery costs at congested airports.
$1.6M
Avg. insurance claim
Average claim for runway incursion and excursion events, per industry loss data.
$100M+
Hull exposure
Hull coverage exposure in a single major runway accident. Catastrophic events can exceed half a billion dollars in total losses.
Demonstrable risk posture
A continuous, documented verification layer strengthens an airport's demonstrable risk posture, supporting conversations with insurers, regulators, and safety auditors from a position of evidence rather than assertion.
Position-based licensing
Designed around position-based licensing, VERICOM can start with selected ATC positions and expand toward broader tower, airport, or ANSP-level deployment, supporting recurring revenue while allowing customers to validate before scaling.
Insurance Exposure

Airport insurance costs are rising
Communication risk is part of the reason

Aviation insurance markets have hardened after consecutive loss-making years, and airport operators are absorbing the result: higher premiums, tighter capacity, and closer underwriter scrutiny of operational risk.

8–12%
Annual premium hardening
Observed across commercial airport liability accounts in recent renewal cycles, as insurers rebuild premium adequacy after major losses.
10–25%
Premium increase after a single claim
One loss can raise premiums for years. Multiple claims can restrict carrier options entirely, forcing operators into a narrower, more expensive market.
$1.6M
Average runway-event claim
The average insurance claim for runway incursion and excursion events, before accounting for liability, disruption, and reputational cost.
How VERICOM addresses the insurance equation
01
Reduce the events that trigger claims
Communication mismatches sit upstream of runway incursions and movement-area events. Catching them in the intervention window is designed to reduce the frequency of claimable incidents.
02
Protect the claims history
Because a single claim can raise premiums for years, every prevented event protects the operator's loss record, the single most important input to renewal pricing.
03
Demonstrate risk control with evidence
A continuous, documented verification layer gives operators something most airports cannot show underwriters today: auditable proof of active communication-risk monitoring, supporting renewal conversations from a position of evidence rather than assertion.
Premium outcomes are set by insurers and depend on each operator's full risk profile. VERICOM strengthens the demonstrable risk posture that those conversations are built on.
Defense & Critical Operations — Adjacent

The same architecture, a different comms layer
Military tower and ramp operations

Military aircraft on a flight line at dusk, control tower in the background

VERICOM's core engine is built to ingest military-grade voice and data-link communication, and to cross-reference it against tactical and operational position sources — including radar, ADS-B/Mode S where available, and platform-reported telemetry — giving tower and ramp operations the same independent verification layer as civil ATC.

Why VERICOM

VERICOM verifies operational meaning
Generic voice AI can only transcribe words

A correct transcript is not enough. ATC phraseology is compressed, radio audio is noisy, callsigns can be ambiguous, and clearances are context-dependent. Correct speech does not prove correct execution.

Aviation-native verification
Purpose-built for ATC phraseology, clearance-readback semantics, and the operational context that generic speech models cannot interpret.
Closed-loop data fusion
Combines voice intent with live aircraft-state data to verify whether the aircraft is doing what it was actually cleared to do.
Defensible IP
A USPTO provisional patent application has been filed, covering the multi-layer verification architecture: semantic clearance-readback verification combined with multi-source aircraft-state fusion.
Non-intrusive deployment
Operates alongside existing certified ATC systems without modifying current infrastructure, workflows, or controller authority.
Built by operators who understand the failure mode

VERICOM is not a generic AI product looking for an aviation use case. It is built by aviation professionals with direct experience in airline operations, flight safety, training, audits, aircraft induction, ATC/ATM environments, and operational risk.

Civil aviation is the first market: structured phraseology, high safety pressure, existing surveillance data, and measurable operational risk. Adjacent domains are strategic upside, not the first commercialization target.

Next Step
Bring real-time verification
into ATC operations

Request a VERICOM briefing to review the verification architecture, prototype benchmarks, and deployment pathway for your tower, airport, or ANSP environment.

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Non-Intrusive · Runs Alongside Certified ATC Systems Civil Aviation First · Defense & Critical Ops Adjacent