Air Mobility Pathfinders Project
NASA’s vision for Air Mobility Pathfinders (AMP) is to help emerging aviation markets to safely develop an air transportation system that moves people and cargo between places previously not served or underserved by aviation – local, regional, intraregional, urban – using revolutionary new aircraft that are only just now becoming possible. AMP includes NASA’s work on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and will provide substantial benefit to U.S. industry and the public.
PROJECT MANAGER
Karen Cate
DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER (acting)
Neil O’Connor
deputy project manager, technology
Ken Goodrich
Chief Engineer
Colin Theodore
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Emerging Aviation Markets
Emergency Response Operations
NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations project – led by the agency’s Ames Research Center in California – is using drones and advanced aviation technologies to improve wildland fire coordination and operations.
Safety is Paramount
The System-Wide Safety project is developing a new technology called the In-time Aviation Safety Management System, which will automate safety assurance and risk management functions performed manually today.
Building the Infrastructure
NASA researchers are considering the network infrastructure required so these aircraft can digitally communicate with each other and traffic management services, as well as brick and mortar infrastructure such as candidate landing surfaces.
