ATM-X xTM Completes ETM Collaborative Evaluation #1 Research Concept Review
September 20, 2022
On August 31, 2022, the ATM-X Project’s Extensible Traffic Management (xTM) Sub-Project conducted a Collaborative Evaluation #1 (CE-1) Research Concept Review (RCR). The review was conducted by the xTM’s Upper Class E Traffic Management (ETM) team. During the RCR, the ETM team briefed stakeholders and reviewers on the project management, status, and technical work being undertaken by the team for the CE-1 activity. This included a prototype NASA research ETM system and its ability to support simulated cooperative operations in high altitudes, which will be evaluated with partners in the CE-1, currently scheduled for August 2023. Reviewers and stakeholders were solicited to provide feedback and suggested actions to the xTM Sub-Project ETM team to ensure that ETM CE-1 work is: 1) well-aligned with NASA, AOSP, and ATM-X objectives and goals; 2) appropriately scoped and resourced; and 3) sufficiently rigorous, that the work proposed and underway is likely to result in a viable study with meaningful results that can be used to further future work; and 4) that effective and robust project management and systems engineering practices and procedures are being prepared. The ETM team plans to incorporate the feedback, address the actions, and progress to an experimental review.