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	+ Home Search Aviation Systems		ATM-X xTM Briefs ETM Research at the 5th Federal UxS Workshop September 27, 2022 On September 13, 2022, the Air Traffic Management eXploration (ATM-X) Project’s Extensible Traffic Management (xTM) Sub-Project team briefed NASA’s Upper Class E Traffic Management (ETM) research at the 5th Federal UxS workshop. The workshop was an in-person event at the NASA Ames Center Conference Facility and included an introduction to the Extensible Traffic Management (xTM) concept. The briefing included how core principles from the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) evolved to become xTM principles, the development of a prototype NASA research ETM system that inherits the xTM principle, and NASA’s plan for collaborative evaluation of the prototype research ETM system for enabling simulated concurrent and co-located high altitude operations in 2023. The ETM team plans to return to the next workshop to share more information about the collaborative evaluation. For more information: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-innovation-center/science/5th-federal-uxs-workshop POC: Jeff Homola NASA ATM-X PAAV Conducts Collaborative Meeting with DLR September 27, 2022 On September 15, 2022, members of the ATM-X Project’s Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles (PAAV) Sub-Project, held a virtual meeting with Felix Sievers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Representing the PAAV team were Dr. Jordan Sakakeeny, Dr. Husni Idris, Kurt Swieringa, Dr. Heather Arneson, and Tod Lewis. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the outline of ongoing and future research, and to share initial analysis of the German air cargo market. The initial phase of the research is focused on a joint comparative analysis of regional air cargo operations in the US and Germany and its potential for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). This joint comparative analysis will establish qualitative metrics by which airports in the US and Germany can be compared for their accessibility and acceptability of cargo UAS. The focus of the collaboration will be on the airspace impacts of the introduction of UAS into the airspace, specifically around small, non-towered airports. This work will build on previous NASA work, “Preliminary Characterization of Unmanned Air Cargo Routes Using Current Cargo Operations Survey,” AIAA Aviation 2022. The meeting was one of a series of ongoing collaborative research meetings related to the NASA-DLR Work Package 2. This work will lay the foundation for future collaborative efforts in the coming years by identifying use cases or reference missions which can be used for future analysis and simulations, in addition to assisting in PAAV trajectory research. It is expected that the PAAV-DLR team will have an outline of the joint comparative analysis by the end of September. POC: Arwa Aweiss and Dr. Husni Idris + Previous Highlights + Back to Top
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