Airspace Operations and Safety Program
The Airspace Operations and Safety Program (AOSP) transforms the national airspace to meet the variety, density, and complexity of current and future users—keeping our skies safer, smarter, and globally competitive. By digitizing information and scaling automation across the National Airspace System, AOSP helps cut delays and operating costs, lighten controller workload, and give passengers back valuable time. AOSP partners with the FAA, industry, and academia to enable U.S. leadership for the next century of aviation while raising the bar on safety for every vehicle and operation.
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Parimal Kopardekar
Vanessa Aubuchon
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Parimal KopardekarActing DirectorVanessa AubuchonActing Deputy Director
The Airspace Operations and Safety Program currently divides its research portfolio into four projects.
Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response (ACERO)To keep pace with the growing threat of wildland fires across the United States, NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations project is developing airspace management technologies that will enable remotely piloted aircraft to identify, monitor, and suppress wildfires 24 hours a day.Air Mobility Pathfinders (AMP)Air Mobility Pathfinders will tackle one of the most important challenges in the Advanced Air Mobility industry — researching how to safely integrate emerging electric air taxi technologies into cities and the national airspace system to help revolutionize air transportation.Air Traffic Management—Exploration (ATM-X)The Air Traffic Management – eXploration 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.System-Wide Safety (SWS)The transformation of avia …