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AAM IWG Subgroups

The AAM IWG is further organized into five key subgroups focused on:

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     Air Traffic Federation
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     Automation Strategy
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         Community Roles
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           Infrastructure     
           Development

 

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  Security Requirements

 

 

Air Traffic Federation

The Air Traffic Federation subgroup is focused on identifying the requirements and operations management needed to ensure continued safety of the national airspace system.

Members include: Shawn Kozica (Lead – FAA), Chris Loring (DOT Project Manager), Noureddin Ghazavi (FAA), Praveen Raju (FAA), Shivanjili Sharma (NASA), Al Capps (NASA), Lt. Col. John Tekell (DOD), Shawn Maines (DOD), Darshan Divakaran (DOD), and Carl Barrick (OMB).

Automation Strategy

The Automation Strategy working group is focused on understanding the acceleration of the desired transition from initial AAM operations with conventionally qualified, onboard pilots through advanced capabilities proposed by the AAM industry, such as simplified vehicle operations, remotely piloted operations, autonomous operations, and remotely supervised flight operations. This group is considering automation strategy with a comprehensive view related to vehicle, airspace, and enabling communication, navigation, and surveillance capabilities to enable various automation/autonomy stages.

Members include: Parimal Kopardekar (Lead – NASA), Sarasina Tuchen (DOT Project Manager), Alrik Svenson (DOT), Derek Morgan (FAA), Arjuna “Tuna” Fields (FAA), Brian Berglund (FAA), Noureddin Ghazavi (FAA), Andras Kovacs (FAA), Lt. Col. James Taylor (DOD), Lt. Col. John “Wasp” Tekell (DOD), Lt. Col. Bryan Ralston (DOD), Thomas Meagher (DOD), Darshan "Dash" Divakaran (DOD), Akbar Sultan (NASA), Ken Goodrich (NASA), Misty Davies (NASA), and Deidre Mulligan (OSTP), Roberta Cuevas (FEMA), Jim Leydon (FEMA), Thomas "Ted" Fries (FEMA), AnnaMaria Colom (DHS).

Community Roles

The Community Roles working group is focused on understanding the need for good public planning for these new technologies and issues such as land governance, transportation equity and accessibility, economic impacts, environmental issues, and workforce development.

Members include: Nancy Mendonca (Lead – NASA), Colleen D'Allesandro (Lead – FAA), Dave Perlman (DOT Project Manager), Cindy Baraban (DOT), Reed Garfield (DOT), Beth White (FAA), Adam Scholten (FAA), Dipasis Bhadra (FAA), Camille Sprauve (FAA), Praveen Raju (FAA), Mitchell Bernstein (FAA), Michael Patterson (NASA), Carl Russell (NASA), Noah Brown (DoEd), Joey Heavner (DOL), Lisa Kearney (VA), and Darshan "Dash" Divakaran (DOD).

Infrastructure Development

The Infrastructure Development working group is focused on understanding the aviation facilities needed to support AAM operations, including ground infrastructure; services, including emergency services; accessibility and competition; telecommunications; weather observation and prediction; utility resources; maintenance of vertiports; sensory systems needed for communications, navigation, and surveillance; and multimodal compatibility.

Members include: Keri Lyons (Lead – FAA), Tom Derenge (Lead – FCC), Ryan Steinbach (DOT Project Manager), Chris Sweet (FAA), Michael “Pat” Murphy (FAA), Shawna Barry (FAA), Jon Stowe (FAA), Jonathan Torres (FAA), Sandra Wright (FAA), Praveen Raju (FAA), Mitchell Bernstein (FAA), Adam Scholten (FAA), Kari Hicks (FCC), Kambiz Rahnavardy (FCC), Jeffrey Homola (NASA), Jim Murphy (NASA), Bryan Barmore (NASA), David Rann (DOT), Cindy Baraban (DOT), AJ Muldoon (DOT), Donald Hillebrand (DOE), Peter Devlin (DOE), Evan Gee (Council of Economic Advisors), Bob Maxson (NOAA), Bruce Entwistle (NOAA), John Walker (NOAA), Bryan Cole (NOAA), Annamaria Colom (DHS), Diane Carrington (DOD), Darshan "Dash" Divakaran (DOD), Mike Horner (DOD), John Dawyer (DOD), Gina Harrison (NTIA), and Rick Orsulak (NTIA).

Security Requirements

The Security Requirements working group is focused on resolving security concerns related to the introduction and expansion of AAM operations into the existing interconnected transportation domain, preventing the errant or malicious use of AAM systems, and identifying and mitigating potential security risks to AAM aircraft, operations, ground support systems, and other critical infrastructure.

Members include: Jay Carrigan (Lead – TSA), Micah Campbell (Lead – FAA), Michael Hardin (DOT Project Manager), Paul Nelson (NASA), Kenneth Miller (FAA), Allison Allgood (FAA), Abigail Smith (FAA), Praveen Raju (FAA), Mitchell Bernstein (FAA), Matthew Cronin (NCC), Stefanie Merchant (Commerce), Carson Spence (TSA), Michael Rucinski (TSA), Brent Cotton (TSA), Michael Baliles (TSA), and Darshan "Dash" Divakaran (DOD).

 

 

Contact Us

Laura Remo
laura.remo@dot.gov

 

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Last updated: Tuesday, January 30, 2024