A Concept of Operations (ConOps) of an In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS) for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)
Kyle K. Ellis, Paul Krois, John Koelling, Lawrence J. Prinzel, Misty Davies, Robert Mah
Abstract
View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-1978.vid The National Academies provided a vision for transformation of the future airspace system for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) which is an In-time Aviation Safety Management System (IASMS). The IASMS integrates safety assurance, which is the foundation for In-time System-wide Safety Assurance (ISSA), with traditional risk management. The IASMS and its distributed architecture scales in relation to innovations in the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and an increasingly complex AAM ecosystem comprised of an expanding mix of small UAS, air taxis, traditional operations, new supersonic aircraft, and space launch systems. Design of an IASMS builds on the In-Time System-wide Safety Assurance (ISSA) concept that mitigates risks before they can lead to an incident or accident using an architecture that integrates shared operational and IASMS-unique Services, Functions, and Capabilities (SFCs). The design of the IASMS architecture couples SFCs in both traditional and innovative ways to more effectively identify patterns in precursors, anomalies and trends and validate known-knowns, manage unknown-knowns, analyze known-unknowns, and discover unknown-unknowns that pose risk to AAM solutions.