Excellent! Actually I think that this is already happening. The Concept of Engineering completely splits engineering from ATC. No engineers will work in the ATC part and vice versa. If staff with ATC or engineering skills are required in each half then they are regraded. The CoE splits engineering into disciplines such as project management and operational engineering. This would then allow NATS engineering to be run almost as its own company seeking new business for the parent NATS. In that way the engineers can actively seek engineering contracts and so on.
The engineers seem to think that we are next - I don't think so!!!
