Sec. 901. Federal Aviation Administration research and development
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Consistent with the research plan in section 102, the Administrator, in coordination with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other Federal agencies, shall carry out and support research, development, testing, demonstration, technology transfer, and implementation activities to enable advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems and to facilitate the safe integration of advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system, in areas including— beyond visual-line-of-sight operations; command and control link technologies; development and integration of unmanned aircraft system traffic management into the national airspace system; noise and other societal and environmental impacts; development of an industry consensus vehicle-to-vehicle standard; safety, including collisions between advanced air mobility and unmanned aircraft systems of various sizes, traveling at various speeds, and various other crewed aircraft or various parts of other crewed aircraft of various sizes and traveling at various speeds; and detect and avoid capabilities.
The Administrator shall apply lessons learned from unmanned aircraft systems research, development, demonstration, and testing to advanced air mobility systems. The Administrator shall conduct research on approaches to evaluating risk in emerging vehicles, technologies, and operations for unmanned aircraft systems and advanced air mobility systems. Such research shall include— defining quantitative metrics, including those needed for the Secretary of Transportation to make determinations and establish requirements for the operations of certain unmanned aircraft systems, as described under section 44807 of title 49, United States Code, as amended by this title; developing risk-based processes and criteria to inform the development of regulations and certification of complex operations, to include autonomous beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations, of unmanned aircraft systems of various sizes and weights, and advanced air mobility systems; and considering the utility of performance standards to make determinations under section 44807 of title 49, United States Code, as amended by this title.
Not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 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 actions taken by the Administrator to implement provisions under this section that includes— a summary of the costs and results of research under subsection (a)(6); a description of plans for and progress toward the implementation of research and development under subsection (c); a description of the Administration’s progress using research and development to inform the development of certification guidance and regulations of— large unmanned aircraft systems, including those weighing more than 55 pounds; and extended autonomous and remotely piloted operations beyond visual line of sight in controlled and uncontrolled airspace; and a current Plan for Full Operational Capability of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management, as described in section 376 of Public Law 115–254 , the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.
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