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• Code AT Overview

• AAM: Advanced Air Mobility

• ATM-X: Air Traffic Management - Exploration

• ACERO: Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations

• Secure Airspace

• Data & Reasoning Fabric

• Systems Engineering

• Smart Mobility

Aeronautics Projects Office (Code AT) Overview

• The Aeronautics Projects Office (Code AT) enables the development and execution of NASA Ames Aeronautics Directorate (ARMD) projects focusing on research and technology projects that improve the efficiency, safety, and adaptability of air transportation through advances in concepts and technologies; aeronautics and aerospace systems analysis tools; and new flight vehicle concepts and systems.

• Civil Service workforce: ~30 FTEs

• Contractor workforce: ~29 WYEs

Staff

• Code AT supports multiple projects and functions (not all encompassed below):

• ATM-X: Air Traffic Management - Exploration

• AAM: Advanced Air Mobility

• ACERO: Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations

• CAS: Convergent Aeronautics Solution

• LBFD: Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

• NARI: NASA Aeronautics Research Institute

• UTM: Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management

• …and more

Projects We Support

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Background

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)

• Develop and implement an environment to accelerate AAM development and operational adoption concepts, including developing and demonstrating key automation functions, and delivering validated system architectures and requirements to the benefit of the AAM ecosystem

Background

• NC-1

• Wisk- Wisk tabletop exercises: 3 completed, 1 more planned.

• Joby-Instrument flight procedure (IFP) simulation completed that will serve as a pathfinder for NC-2 activity.

• NTX Cohort -Sprint 1 – Weather integration simulation, Demand/Capacity balancing simulation completed , Live flight with Bell 407 out of Hillwood Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) completed on Oct 11th

• AFCM/IAS - IAS tested two interfaces for NASA’s Aircraft Flight Contingency Management (AFCM) Flight Path

Management (FPM) and Hazard Perception and Avoidance (HPA)

• AFCM

• Hazard Perception & Avoidance HiTL and VMS simulation

• Automaton Enabled Pilots- FAA-2 eVTOL Flight Test development simulation

• HDV-Completed Advanced Onboard Automation flight test

• Developed UAS automation architecture to support terminal area operations.

• DevelopedBVLOS sUAS safety case for urban operations in controlled airspace

• Conducted Demonstration of automated VLOS urban operations in controlled airspace.

FY22 Highlights

• NC-2 planning and realignment of AOSP to meet Critical Commitment 26

• IAS-1 Spiral 2

• HDV Scalable Autonomous Operations

FY23

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Air Traffic Management – Exploration (ATM-X)

• The Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) project will transform the air traffic management system to safely accommodate the growing demand of new air vehicles to enter the airspace to perform a variety of missions.

• ATM-X is developing innovative technology solutions with an end-goal of enabling a digitally-integrated air transportation system that allows for increased mobility and safe, efficient access for both traditional and emerging operations and users – from commercial aircraft to delivery drones and urban air taxis.

Background

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Air Traffic Management – Exploration (ATM-X)

• Sky for All: developed a community-supported Sky for All Vision of the future aviation system

• Digital Information Platform (DIP):

• Expanded Flight Operator partnership cohort to support SFNP-Ops Testing

• Achieved sustainability benefits with service-oriented architecture and ML-based predictions using the platform

• Hosted OAA and AOSP to highlight DIP SFNP-Ops 1a demonstration and ongoing sustainability benefits of

Collaborative Digital Departure Re-Route tools and algorithms in use in NTX

• Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Airspace:

• Published UAM Airspace Research Roadmap v1.2 which provides a common understanding of airspace assumptions, requirements, and constraints toward UML-4

• Successfully completed Strategic Conflict Management Simulation (X4) with seven industry airspace partners

• Published Secure Airspace publication focused on UAM Secure Airspace Immutable Secure Data Exchange

• Extensible Traffic Management (xTM):

• Improving Coordination Towards Enabling ETM with Regular FAA engagements and completing ETM RTT deliverables

• Addressing key technical barrier for UTM BVLOS by developing planning algorithms

• Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles:

• Completed data analysis and fast time simulations focused on remote cargo operations integration into the NAS

• Completed PAAV Concept Document v1 that identifies challenges and potential solutions for integration of this use case

FY22 Highlights

• Realignment planning efforts will be a key focus as ATM-X iterates on a research portfolio focused on DIP, sUAS scalable operations, future airspace and vertiport research, and integrated vehicle automation R&D

FY23

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Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO)

• ACERO is expected to develop, integrate, demonstrate, and transition to operations, evolving aviation technologies from NASA and industry to identify, monitor, and suppress wildland fires as a means to enhance safety, improve operational efficiency, and prevent economic loss..

Background

• Initial Formulation Planning Efforts Began FY22 Highlights

• KDP-A Completed (Oct. ’22)

• Establish Inter-Agency Working Group to develop initial Concept of Operations (CONOPS) (Jan. ‘23)

• Conduct Prescribed Burn Fire Demonstration (Pre-Fire) (Sep. ‘23)

• Publish initial Concept of Operations (CONOPS v1.0) (Sep. ‘23)

• Conduct briefing for TC Tollgate (Mar. ‘24)

• Publish revised Concept of Operations (CONOPS v2.0) (Sep. ‘24)

• Conduct Demonstration for Prescribed Burn Fire (Active Fire) (Sep. ‘24)

• Conduct Demonstration for Remote Sensing (Aug. ‘25)

• Conduct Demonstration for Communications and Logistics (Sep. ‘26)

• Conduct Demonstration for Suppression (Aug. ‘27)

• Conduct Demonstration for Multi-Mission Integrated Operations (Aug. ‘28)

• Publish and Deliver final Concept of Operations (CONOPS) (Sep. ‘28)

FY23 and beyond

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Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations

LOGISTICS

AIRCRAFT

SAFETY

SATELLITE

AIR TACTICAL GROUP

SUPERVISOR

AERIAL

IGNITION

DECISION SUPPORT

DAYTIME OPERATIONS NIGHTTIME OPERATIONS

REMOTELY PILOTED

HELICOPTER

REMOTE

SENSING

TANKER

HALE

SEARCH AND RESCUE

WILDFIRE AIRSPACE MANAGEMENT

PILOTED

HELICOPTER

TERRESTRIAL

COMMUNICATIONS

“Incoming Aircraft”

GOAL: Develop, demonstrate, and transition to operations, emerging aviation technologies to identify, monitor, and suppress wildland fires, as a means to enhance safety, improve efficiency, and prevent economic loss.

Secure Airspace

• Goal: To develop and demonstrate capabilities, in order to provide requirements for secure data integrity, resiliency and information privacy to Urban Air Mobility (UAM) environments.

Background

• Threat Analysis for a UAM Operational Environment

• Secured Airspace for UAM Workshop

• UAM Roadmap (Secured Airspace)

• Two blockchain talks o Secure Air Space Network for Autonomous Vehicles that are operating in an Urban Area and Secure the Data using

Blockchain Technology o Immutable Secure Data Exchange and Storage for UAM Environments

• Design for Host Based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) for UAM

• Support for Security Panels for ATCA, the Southern California CIO/CISO Conference and the Future of Aviation 2022

• UAS System ATO

FY22 Highlights

• Security Threats and Mitigations for UAM Communications Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) Report

• Security Experiments within UAM X5 Simulation oBlockchain-based Secure Data Exchange and Storage oHost-based Intrusion Detection (HIDS)

• Security Panel: AAAE Airport Planning Design Symposium

FY23

Team Lead: Kenneth Freeman Team Members: Bert Gillem, Aidan Jones, Terrence Lewis, Steve Garcia & Nishant Sharma

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Data & Reasoning Fabric (DRF)

• The Data and Reasoning Fabric (DRF) activity is developing a trusted service discovery and exchange backbone to manage complex and dense airspace operations.

Background

• Secure Distributed Identities

• Release of beta version of DRF Core Software

• Wildfire detection simulation with the California Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

• Space Act Agreement with Autonomy Association International (AAI)

• Selection of DRF Phoenix Field Test Use cases

• DRF / AAI Workshop

FY22 Highlights

• Edge computing, in support of service distribution

• Imagine Aviation

• DRF Phoenix Field Test (Medical package delivery simulation)

• DRF / CAP flight test (Feather River California)

FY23

Team Lead: Kenneth Freeman Team Members: Supreet Kaur, Aidan Jones & Terrence Lewis

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Systems Engineering (SE)

• The Aeronautics SE Group was established in 2019 to merge the silos of SEs spread across projects, build a community, increase skills, share lessons learned, and reduce duplicated efforts.

Background

• SE Retreat was held on Jan 13th and 20th 2023, with 15+ SEs participating

• SEs connected with each other. We gathered & discussed the SE group needs for this year

• 4 SE Community of Practice talks

FY22 Highlights

• Fostering SE mentorships

• Strengthening the SE community

• More SE Community of Practice talks

• NASA 2023 Systems Engineering Workshop at JSC, April 18-20

• Newcomers from the GS 11-13 term civil servant opportunity

FY23

Team Leads: Andrew Ging and Shak Ghassemieh

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Na�onal Campaign Effort

Aeronau�cs Projects Office Systems Engineers

AOSP

ATM-X

James Chartres

Risk Manager:

Joshua Moody

IASP

UAM

DPE: Annie Cheng uPSP Chris Barreras

DIPPAAV

Pat McGuirk

ATI

Nicole Dawkins

NC

AAM

CE: Colin Theodore

Risk Manager:

Alonzo Bradford

LBFD

DLSE: Shak Ghassemieh

SE Group Co-Leads :

Shak Ghassemieh

Andrew Ging

HDV

Demetrios K.

Stuart W.

AFCM

Chris Barreras

Smart Mobility @ Ames

Demetrios Katsaduros

XTM

Restore Rel iabi l i ty of VMS Out-the- Window Cockpi t

Visua l Infrastructure Sean Matheson

Andrew Biederman Darren Benn

TACP

CAS

Jim Murphy, AMIO

Freddie Paul Liu

DRF

Sue Kaur

EPFD

Stevan Spremo

Jeff Rothman

Sean Matheson Chris Barreras Cody Evans (TH) Andrew Ong

AAVP

ACERO

Andrew Ging

Risk Manager:

Alonzo Bradford

Francis Sullivan

Smart Mobility @ Ames

• Smart Mobility was created to serve as the Ames ARD’s executive agent for enabling aeronautics research activities that involve live flight of vehicles, including activities with non-NASA partners.

Background

• Smart Urban Integrated Test Environment (SUITE) Build 1 flight activities

• Conducted roughtly 100 flights with the Alta UAS to test the SUITE infrastructure

• Connected to a NASA USS and integrated Passive RF sensors and ADS-B

FY22 Highlights

• Continue to develop infrastructure and integrate LSTAR radar

• Begin execution of Build 2 flight operations with multiple aircraft

• Work with NASA researchers and projects to fly aircraft and research payloads

• NASA Infrastructure and building inspection

• Continue to develop and expand manned and unmanned aircraft operations and partnerships

FY23

Team Lead: Paul "Speedy" Fast Team Members: Paul Fast, Jonas Jonsson, Zach Roberts, Edgar Torres, Allen Lee, Matt Gregory, Demetrios Katsaduros

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