Future UTM will not fail because strategic planning stops mattering. Strategic deconfliction remains foundational for intent management, airspace access, interoperability, and broader flow organization. But once aircraft are airborne, the question changes. Disturbances can emerge on timescales shorter than strategic coordination can update, reauthorize, and reconverge. When that happens, the challenge is no longer only whether the original plan was sound. It is whether the ai

Future airspace will require more than better route planning. As operations become denser, more dynamic, and more autonomous, aircraft will need to coordinate in real time, adapt safely under uncertainty, and operate in environments that cannot be fully understood in advance. That is the challenge at the heart of Project Orion. Project Orion began with a focus on next-generation UTM and autonomous cooperative airspace. As the project has evolved, one thing has become increasi

This Fall, we embarked on a transformative journey to push the boundaries of AI optimization for autonomous navigation. Our project...

We are thrilled to announce the official launch of Project Orion! Urban Air Mobility, Traffic Management, Machine Learning, NASA, Cornell...