Since our founding in 2019, ResilienX has been working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to educate the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) community about in-time system-wide safety assurance (ISSA) and the growing need for an in-time aviation safety management system (IASMS) for use in scaled UAS operations. Through the NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, IASMS workshops, educational videos, speaking and exhibiting at conferences, and industry networking events, this education has taken root and formed a large commercial opportunity. Through this Civilian Commercialization Readiness Pilot Program (CCRPP), ResilienX is poised to commercialize our IASMS product, the Fault Recovery And Isolation, Health Monitoring frameWORK (FRAIHMWORK®). This commercialization opportunity is proven by the funding commitment from the United States Air Force (USAF) and partners that have committed to joining us for this effort. Our funding source, the USAF Agility Prime program, is focused on eVTOL integration into DoD applications and use cases, such as logistics support. The Head of Airspace Innovations brought ResilienX and our partners to the table to discuss the deployment of a mature UTM Ops Center for the USAF which focused on situational awareness, safety, and security. ResilienX was identified to lead this effort because, of those three priorities, safety is always at the forefront. To maximize our commercial traction, we have brought many of our current and potential customers to this program as partners and subcontractors. This reduces the risk and raises the priority for them to integrate IASMS capabilities into their Ops Centers, which are largely under development (both physical and technical) at the time of this writing. Our intention is to sell FRAIHMWORK to these organizations (or renew subscriptions with increased capabilities for existing customers) once we can demonstrate its viability through this program.

The need for safety assurance research and an IASMS within the UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystems has been well established in the “National Academies In-Time Aviation Safety Management Report”, which led to the creation and further exploration of these concepts in the NASA ISSA CONOPS. ResilienX has aligned itself with this research, including contributions to the NASA ISSA CONOPS and IASMS Research Roadmap. The NASA SWS group is developing IASMS SFCs that ResilienX will also look to commercialize.

Our commercial customers, much like the USAF, have a need for an Ops Center which provides the high-level objectives of situational awareness, safety, and security. They believe that IASMS is central to these objectives, particularly as scale, complexity, and automation of UAS operations and ecosystems continue to increase. ResilienX is also applying safety assurance technology to Navy ships.