Autonomy and Flight Ken Dunlap, Managing Partner Catalyst-Go SAE Aerospace Standards Summit Tysons Corners 2018

The Promise and not the reality is driving standards Compelling use cases: unconvincing business cases “Knowledge chasm” between technology and user Cutting-edge driving standards: not applications Clouding "nice to have" and what is required

regulatory reality Fragmented message: “Doesn’t apply to us” Regulators lived in a manned vehicle world Proposition 1: Unmanned regs need to be biased toward manned regulations Proposition 2: Standards need to focus on business use cases and not technology

NASA proposed framework* 2015: Supervised Autonomous Systems 2015: Goal/Mission Directed Systems 2035: Distributed Collaborative Systems Design/Assurance/Human Integration/Airspace Integration/Testing and Evaluation *Sharon Graves/Mark Ballin

Organizational/systemic standards framework Enterprise management and accountability Flight Safety Flight Dispatch Engineering/Maintenance Ground Operations Security

Organizational/systemic standards framework Machine learning (data biases, reference sets, coding guidelines) Certification standards for hardware: redundancy MTBF/Minimum equipment standards for safe flight Weather and separation requirements Pilot in Command /dispatch authority Pilot in Command: 1 to many Automation standards for payload and operator/PIC Situation awareness standards (Both display presentations and manual backup) Telemetry availability standards, included loss of signal options, alerting Detect and avoid (on platform or external) Localized BVLOS: trajectory and intent, operator alerting for non cooperating traffic then LD BVLOS Remote ID and integration into UTM Long distance BVLOS: Remote ID UTM + ATM interoperability

Levels of Autonomy should map to airspace privileges

THANK YOU Ken Dunlap ken.dunlap@catalyst-go.com 1-202-596-6051