The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released Assessing the Risks of Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System. This consensus study examines the various ways that risk can be defined and applied to integrating these Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System managed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It also identifies needs for additional research and developmental opportunities in this field....

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released an abbreviated version of a restricted report that assesses the potential of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) in enhancing future U.S. naval operations. The Department of the Navy has determined that the final report prepared by the committee is restricted in its entirety under exemption 3 of the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC § 552 (b) (3)), via 10 USC § 130 and therefore cannot be made available to the public. TR...

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, part of the National Academies’ Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS) has release a report that provides an overview of NextGen and examines the technical activities, including human-system design and testing, organizational design, and other safety and human factor aspects of the system, that will be necessary to successfully transition current and planned modernization programs to the future system. This report assesses techn...

The National Research Council’s Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences has released the report, Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data: Summary of a Workshop, that summarizes a workshop convened in April 2014 by the National Research Council's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics to explore how best to train students to use big data. The Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, like TRB, is a division of the National Academies, which include the National Acad...

The Committee on Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation, part of the National Acadmies’ Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS), has released a report that identifies key barriers and suggests major elements of a national research agenda to address those barriers and help realize the benefits that increasingly autonomous (IA) systems can make to crewed aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems, and ground-based elements of the national airspace system. The report develops a set of integr...

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, part of the National Academies’ Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS), has released a report that describes issues that have surfaced so far in an examination of the Next Generation Air Transportation System’s (NextGen) enterprise software development approach and safety and human factors design. DEPS, like TRB, is a division of the National Academies, which include the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineer...