Other Projects of the Airspace Systems Program

In response to NASA's goal within the Aerospace Technologies Enterprise to revolutionize aviation, specifically the challenges associated with increasing air traffic capacity and modernization of the National Airspace System, NASA established the Airspace Systems (AS) Program. In fiscal year 2003, the AS Program began integrating the activities of VAMS and its other three projects:

• The Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) Project
• The Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) Project
• The Human Measures and Performance (HMP) Project

Advanced Air Transportation Technologies (AATT) Project

The AATT Project has developed technologies and concept demonstrations laying out the Air Traffic Management technology foundations that may be required by the VAMS Project to meet their goals. In some cases, this has resulted in the projects sharing the same technology developers, evaluators, and managers. This has the benefit of integrating the approach of the projects. Advances in one area are quickly communicated to the other, and the products developed have a high degree of compatibility.

Visit the AATT web site at http://www.as.nasa.gov/aatt/.

Small Aircraft Technology System (SATS) Project

As part of the Airspace Systems (AS) Program, the SATS Project is developing a revolutionary class of small aircraft to potentially reduce "door-to-door" transportation time by 50%. The VAMS Project will interact with the SATS Project to understand the potential impacts of such a vehicle in the forecasted timeframe of the 2020s. The inclusion of a SATS class of vehicle in the common scenario set and the real-time simulation tool may be important in the air transportation system trade space analysis.

Visit the SATS web site at http://sats.larc.nasa.gov/.

Human Measures and Performance (HMP) Project

The HMP Project is developing fundamental research in the area of aerospace human factors. The goals of these activities address air-ground compatibility issues with the overarching goal of providing solutions for reducing delays and increasing capacity. VAMS is leveraging HMP research activities in the area of human performance modeling with specific application to the Air Traffic Control system and the flight deck.

Visit the HMP web page at http://www.as.nasa.gov/hmp/.

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