Industry Insights: Partnerships Advancing the Future of Autonomous Flight
As Advanced Air Mobility moves from concept to commercial viability, safe integration into shared airspace remains a critical industry hurdle. Brenden Hedblom, Head of Product at SkyGrid, sat down with Erick Corona, former Head of Airspace & Operational Integration at Wisk, to discuss how the two companies are collaborating to make safe, scalable autonomous […]
A Faster Way to Model Flight Plan Uncertainty
In practice, an aircraft’s filed flight plan does not represent its true flown trajectory. Environmental disturbances and vehicle abnormalities all serve to deviate an aircraft from its nominal path, so strategic planners need a robust mechanism to estimate vehicle deviations. Underestimate that, and you get clear flight plans that end up too close to weather […]
Unlocking the Sky: How Our Latest FAA Tech Center Simulation Advances Autonomous Air Mobility
The Case for Modular CDR: Building AAM Deconfliction that Scales
Most conflict-resolution systems for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) handle long-range planning and in-the-moment maneuvering as two separate systems built independently. This approach can be risky because these systems can end up telling the same aircraft to do conflicting things. The framework in our technical paper, “Learning-based Hierarchical Framework for Strategic and Tactical Planning,” takes a […]
Automated Traffic Management Services Enabling Advanced Air Mobility
SkyGrid’s Dr. Joseph Rios recently joined EUROCONTROL, a pan-European organization dedicated to supporting European aviation, to discuss how automated traffic management services can enable Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) operations at scale. The conversation covered what makes AAM fundamentally different from today’s aviation, why new flight rules are needed, and how an Automated Traffic Management System […]
The Current and Future State of Aviation in San Antonio and Beyond
The 2026 State of Aviation in San Antonio brought together civic leaders, operators, and innovators to take stock of where aviation stands today and where it is headed. SkyGrid CEO Jia Xu joined Jim Perschbach, President and CEO of Port San Antonio, and Jesus Saenz, Director of Airports at the City of San Antonio, on […]
Routine Civil Airspace Integration for Increasingly Autonomous Flight
As the aviation ecosystem evolves toward higher levels of autonomy, one of the critical challenges facing the industry is enabling routine operations within shared civil airspace. Today’s airspace system was designed around human coordination, and the procedures that govern it reflect that reality. Transitioning to scalable autonomous operations requires a fundamental shift toward digital operations, […]
Pathway to Advanced Air Mobility: Launching Regional AAM in the Future
CANSO Airspace Asia Pacific, in December 2025, brought together industry leaders, regulators, and Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) to explore practical approaches to delivering safe, seamless, and harmonized future skies. SkyGrid joined a panel on what it takes to move Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) from concept to reality, covering deployment plans, regulatory progress, infrastructure innovation, […]
Understanding AFR: Tactical Conflict Management
The Urban Air Mobility (UAM) industry is rapidly developing novel passenger-carrying aircraft, but integrating these operations safely into already complex urban airspace poses a significant challenge. Commercial-scale UAM will operate at frequencies comparable to those of operations at major airports. The airspace used by UAM must accommodate a high density of operations, but doing so […]
Understanding AFR: Pre-Tactical Conflict Management
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a vision of efficient, on-demand air transportation that avoids ground traffic and congestion. But achieving commercial-scale UAM faces a significant challenge: current airspace management approaches weren’t designed for the high-frequency, low-altitude operations that UAM requires. The airspace used by UAM must accommodate a high density of operations, but doing so […]