Objectives

The goal of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is to "Enable a safer, more secure, efficient, and environmentally friendly air transportation system." The Airspace Systems (AS) Program supports these efforts through its objective to "Enable more people and goods to travel faster and farther, with fewer delays." The VAMS Project of the AS Program directly supports this objective by providing the technologies and processes for conducting trade-off analyses amongst future air transportation system concepts and technologies.

The objectives of the VAMS Project are to:

• Define and assess system-level air transportation concepts that reach out to 2025.
  
  
  • Solicit, collect, and describe a set of system-level operational concepts, concepts of use, and architectures that provide detailed definitions of future (2010-2025) air transportation systems.
    
  
  
• Prepare Technology Roadmaps for selected concepts.
  
  
  • Address research paths, risks, and potential challenges for introducing selected concepts into the National Airspace System.
    
    
• Develop the capability to model and simulate behavior of these concepts and prepare assessments of selected concepts.
  
  
  • Develop a set of analytical and computational models and methods to conduct detailed assessments of operational concepts.
    
    
  • Create a simulation environment that will enable safe investigation of advanced air transportation concepts and develop a deeper science of human performance interactions within it.
    
    
  • Conduct system-level assessments of these concepts to address potential operational benefits, identify risks and characterize limits, and evaluate performance, safety, operations, and National Airspace System infrastructure and transition challenges.

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