NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) has a primary focus on research and development (R&D) including fundamental scientific research, concept development, prototype testing, and new technology creation. The research supports ARC’s mission and NASA’s overall goals in aeronautics, science, space technology, and human exploration.
ARC performs R&D in support of NASA missions in collaboration with other NASA centers, academia, other federal organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and industry partners. Many of ARC’s projects span multiple technological and scientific disciplines. The success of NASA and ARC missions demands leading-edge technical and research expertise from both student and faculty researchers. ARC is a leader within the agency in forming and nurturing innovative partnerships to further these missions.
NASA Academic Mission Services-2 (NAMS-2) provides ARC with capabilities to fulfill mission requirements from fundamental R&D through field-test deployments and operational missions.
Benefit to NASA: The work performed by Crown includes scientific research associated with air traffic management, advanced technology, and prototype software. The purpose of the contract is to meet NASA aeronautics and technology mission objectives, particularly the improvement of aircraft and airspace safety as well as the transition of advanced aeronautics technologies into future air vehicles. NAMS-2 includes a broad scope of research, including the development of new and emerging capabilities and technologies that will evolve over the life of the contract.
The ATM research projects are focused on enabling the safe and equitable use of airspace that can accommodate today’s commercial air transportation vehicles and small and large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, or drones), as well as novel vehicles and airspace uses, such as (but not limited to) space traffic management, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis, and autonomous cargo vehicles. The research is also focused on further researching, building and demonstrating NASA’s urban air mobility (UAM) concept, enabling software and system architectures modeled after NASA’s UAS traffic management (UTM) paradigm, and enabling the introduction of services responsible for (but not limited to) airspace resource scheduling, separation, conflict detection and resolution, integration of weather and noise predictions, and digital transformation of the National Airspace System (NAS).
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- NASA