Securing High-Density Urban Airspaces

Vanderbilt University will lead a collaborative NASA University Leadership Initiative project focused on improving the security of future Advanced Air Mobility systems. Partnering with multiple universities and Collins Aerospace, the research aims to address critical security challenges in urban air transportation technologies. The project will comprehensively examine security aspects across software platforms, inter-vehicle communication, and air traffic control systems.

The three-year research effort will concentrate on developing secure, predictable platforms for AAMs, creating resilient zero-trust architectures, verifying system security properties, and implementing machine learning-based anomaly detection algorithms. By integrating expertise from multiple institutions, the project seeks to establish foundational security methodologies that can support the safe and reliable implementation of next-generation urban aerial transportation technologies.