Blueprint For Autonomy

This document is intended as a guide forward as an industry into a future that methodically enables new automation capabilities and is intended to encompass all forms of autonomous flight, from small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) operating in the NAS today through urban and regional air mobility (UAM and RAM).

While each concept of operations has its own unique technical, integration, and regulatory considerations, including different paths to proven capability maturity, there are common themes associated with the paradigm shift from direct human control to autonomous aircraft (with varying extents of human supervision depending on the functional and technical maturity of the automation).