Partnership Agreement Furthers Safety of Advanced Aircraft Mobility In Low-Altitude Conditions

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AFWERX and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate have installed an Uncrewed Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Equipping Eglin’s Duke Field with the Collaborative Low-Altitude UAS Integration Effort (CLUE) is the next step in AFWERX verifying that current air traffic management systems can ensure complete safety as drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft take flight (U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr.).
AFWERX and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate have installed an Uncrewed Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Equipping Eglin’s Duke Field with the Collaborative Low-Altitude UAS Integration Effort (CLUE) is the next step in AFWERX verifying that current air traffic management systems can ensure complete safety as drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft take flight (U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr.).

September 22, 2023 | Originally published by Air Force Research Laboratory on September 11, 2023

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – AFWERX Prime and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Architecture and Integration Weather office have signed a memorandum of agreement allowing them to collaborate on efforts to reduce the impact of low-altitude weather on advanced aircraft mobility (AAM) platforms.

The three-year agreement outlines roles and responsibilities for AFWERX Prime and AFLCMC in providing the services and funding needed to support efforts to mitigate the effects of low-altitude weather on AAM while also preserving a combat-credible force increasingly impacted by the dynamic weather found at altitudes up to 12,000 feet mean sea level.

AAM is a transportation system that moves people and cargo by using aircraft with advanced technologies, including electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, through both controlled and uncontrolled airspace.

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