“SkyGrid Lays Foundation for Third-Party Services in AAM with new ConOps”

Sky­Grid, an Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) Third-Par­ty Tech­ni­cal Ser­vice Provider (TSP), released an oper­a­tional blue­print, a Con­cept of Oper­a­tions (ConOps), for Third-Par­ty Ser­vices Sup­port­ing the Air­space Inte­gra­tion of AAM, reports a press release.

The release explains, “The ConOps focus­es on how Sky­Grid’s ground-based sys­tem is to deliv­er high-assur­ance third-par­ty ser­vices to help the safe and effi­cient air­space inte­gra­tion of AAM under cur­rent Visu­al Flight Rules (VFR) and Instru­ment Flight Rules (IFR).”

The com­pa­ny is the first com­mer­cial TSP to release a ConOps focused on how approved ser­vices will sup­port AAM.

Please Down­load Full Ver­sion of Sky­Grid’s ConOps

https://www.skygrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SkyGrid-Concept-of-Operations-v1.0.pdf

The release con­tin­ues, “AAM oper­a­tions will need to effec­tive­ly inte­grate into an already com­plex envi­ron­ment, and for uncrewed oper­a­tions, an even high­er integri­ty and fideli­ty sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness is cru­cial to avoid haz­ards and fly safe­ly. Sky­Grid’s ConOps lays out the third-par­ty ser­vices need­ed to address these chal­lenges.”

Jia Xu

Jia Xu, CEO of Sky­Grid, remarked, ”This ConOps reflects our com­mit­ment to enabling the future of flight by deliv­er­ing high-assur­ance third-par­ty ser­vices that enhance oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy, expand air­space access, and sup­port scal­a­bil­i­ty for diverse AAM and autonomous oper­a­tions.” Adding, “We’re excit­ed to dri­ve the con­tin­ued trans­for­ma­tion of air mobil­i­ty, mak­ing it safer, more effi­cient, and more sus­tain­able for all.”

The ConOps focus­es on inte­grat­ing AAM oper­a­tions into the air­space between 2028–2032. Dur­ing this phase, Sky­Grid’s sys­tem is expect­ed to pro­vide enhanced sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness and deci­sion-mak­ing sup­port to help AAM oper­a­tors nav­i­gate com­plex and high­ly con­strained air­spaces. It also serves as a frame­work for how the role of TSPs may evolve as ground-based capa­bil­i­ties, AAM oper­a­tions, and oper­a­tional rules mature.

Nate Isbell, Air­space Inte­gra­tion Man­ag­er at Sky­Grid, com­ment­ed, ”The vision we have out­lined offers a com­pre­hen­sive frame­work for inte­grat­ing AAM oper­a­tions into the cur­rent air­space. Third-Par­ty Ser­vice Providers, like us, will be piv­otal in equip­ping AAM oper­a­tors with essen­tial tech­ni­cal solu­tions, data ser­vices and deci­sion sup­port tools.”

Nate Isbell

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.skygrid.com/

(Top image: Sky­Grid Sets Vision for Third-Par­ty Ser­vices to Enable Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty in New ConOps Release)

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