The U.S. space agency NASA has collaborated with drone transponders, a non-profit organization dedicated to air safety. The aim of the partnership between science and research is to develop methods to ensure aviation security. The development of automation technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles is the most important way to reduce the frequency of life-threatening and health-threatening situations.
Droneresponders consists of a team of experts, practitioners and scientists from the fields of aviation, security and crisis management. The research carried out by the institution is non-commercial in nature and the idea behind the programme is to create a space for collaboration in order to jointly increase the level of safety.
“NASA is working to bring immediate benefits to society by improving national disaster response. We also hope to learn from these operations to enable innovative flight movements in the future. As more and more innovative and autonomous aircraft enter airspace, the coordination and automation of safety monitoring, assessment and mitigation will be crucial to maintain or even improve aviation safety performance. We know this would not have been possible without the help of public safety experts such as Droneresponders, who were involved at the beginning of NASA’s research and planning”, says Misty Davies, NASA’s System Security Project Manager.
As part of the partnership, NASA’s drone transponders will provide the accumulated expertise that will be used to develop System-Wide Safety to create a safe space for fully automated unmanned aerial flights.
