Alignments and Overlaps

Wildfire aviation overlaps with NASA aviation research and goals

• Air Traffic Control in the Temporary Restricted area
• Enhanced situational awareness (both air and ground)
• Controls and precision trajectories (air tankers and retardant drops)
• Efficient fleet deployment
• Aircrew human factors
• Human-machine teaming with autonomous vehicles
• Safe and effective integration of multi-scale UAS vehicles
• Aircraft design and engineering analyses, both fixed and rotary-wing aircraft
• Existing NASA projects: SWIFT, STEReO and DRF (Data and Reasoning Fabric)