Sec. 501. National Aeronautics and Space Administration activities
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The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in consultation with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and other relevant Federal agencies, shall direct research and technological development to facilitate the safe integration of advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System, including— positioning and navigation systems; sense and avoid capabilities; secure data and communication links; flight recovery systems; human systems integration; and hazardous weather condition avoidance.
Section 31504 of title 51, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: Operational flight data derived from these cooperative agreements shall be made available, in appropriate and usable formats, to the Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration for the development of regulatory standards. . The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall work with industry, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and academia to mature and help operationalize advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft system traffic management related concepts, architecture, services, and strategic as well as tactical deconfliction to ensure safe integration of advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems in airspace in presence of other aircraft.
As part of such activities, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall consider commercial and public good use cases, such as wildfire and disaster monitoring and mitigation, with a primary focus on enabling many simultaneous drone operations beyond visual line of sight. The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall apply lessons learned from unmanned aircraft systems research, development, demonstration, and testing to advanced air mobility systems.
The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall coordinate with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Director of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, State, local and Tribal governments, and industry to inform the development of voluntary consensus-based technical standards to facilitate the incorporation of advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System and decrease the need for regulations.
The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall coordinate with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct an assessment to identify metrics and performance measures necessary to safely integrate unmanned aircraft systems and advanced air mobility systems into the National Airspace System. Not later than 60 days after the completion of the assessment under subsection (f), the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall submit to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the progress toward meeting metric and performance measures referred to in such subsection.