Open Architecture
Our open architecture approach enables accelerated development on current and future capabilities.
Defining air traffic systems for the future
NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration (ATM-X) project, or ATM-X, is enabling the transformation of the National Airspace System to a digitally-integrated air transportation system that enables access and increases mobility for all users.
The goal is to show that NASA technologies can improve safe and efficient airspace operations in a more complex airspace through improved coordinated decision-making and disruption management. ATM-X partners with the FAA and industry to develop new technologies that are complimentary to FAA modernization investments and utilizes knowledge gained from other NASA projects.
Technologies for the aviation community
Key Concepts
These technologies, together, provide comprehensive situational awareness in a more crowded airspace, and improve coordinated decision-making and disruption management through the use of advisories.
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Air Traffic Technology Integration
Our flexible platform can integrate with numerous air traffic technologies to streamline data handling.
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Human-Machine Teaming Advances
Leveraging both human and computer interpretation capabilities to create a unified hybrid approach.
Our Subprojects
ATM-X research and technology development has four subprojects, each focusing on different domains that contribute to modernizing future flight paths:
In Phase 2, ATM-X will explore solutions to those technical challenges by developing, testing and then transferring key concepts and technologies to stakeholders in the aviation community. Phase 2 will also see demonstrations of:
- An open architecture approach
- Integration of air traffic technologies
- System-wide data use
- Advances in human-machine teaming
- Increasingly autonomous decision-making