Mark Spence

Mark’s aviation and technology career spans 40 years in both airline flight operations and dispatch systems design. Mark holds FAA dispatcher license and was Hawaiian Airlines Dispatch Manager until his retirement in 2015. Mark co-founded Honolulu based Wxops Inc. in 2010 to R&D and commercialize Command, Control, Communications & Computer (C4) systems for use by Government and Industry. WxOps holds several patented and patent pending products in the areas of Geospatial use, C4 and logistics tracking.

Current R&D and work interests include:
• Usage of a dedicated, standardized and secure geo-browser processes by dispatch and flight crews using EFBs worldwide.
• Airline AOC data exchange with ATC, FAA, NOAA, DHS, NTSB, ICAO & WMO
• AOC data exchange of non-routine aircraft, airport, weather and ATC data.
• Exchange of oceanic flight data with ATC and coordinating reroutes as required
• Use of secure low to medium bandwidth data tunnels
• Human factors and task saturation related study on the use of 4D geospatial software, big data and the EFB UI.
• NextGen, SESAR, SWIM,TASR, and OGC integration.
• Satcom Safety, AOC and passenger channel separation and integration.