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NASA has selected three university teams to help solve 21st<\/sup> century aviation challenges that could transform the skies above our communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n As part of NASA\u2019s University Leadership Initiative (ULI), both graduate and undergraduate students on faculty-led university teams will contribute directly to real-world flight research while gaining hands-on experience working with partners from other universities and industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n koushik datta<\/p>\n NASA Project Manager<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This is NASA\u2019s eighth round of annual ULI awards. Research topics include:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBy combining faculty expertise, student innovation, and industry experience, these three teams will advance NASA\u2019s vision for the future of 21st<\/sup> century aviation,\u201d said Koushik Datta, NASA University Innovation project manager at the Agency\u2019s Ames Research Center in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n This eighth round of annual ULI selections would lead to awards totaling up to $20.7 million for the three teams during the next three years. For each team, the proposing university will serve as lead. The new ULI selections are:\u00a0<\/p>\n The team will create a framework for developing trustworthy increasingly autonomous aviation safety systems, such as those that could potentially employ artificial intelligence and machine learning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Team members include: The Pennsylvania State University in University Park; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro; University of Florida in Gainesville; Stanford University in California; Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico; and the companies Collins Aerospace of Charlotte in North Carolina; and ResilienX of Syracuse, New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n This team will investigate tools for understanding and leveraging the complex communications environment of collaborative, autonomous airspace systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Team members include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge; The University of Texas at El Paso; University of Colorado in Colorado Springs; Stanford University in California; University of Minnesota Twin Cities in Minneapolis, North Carolina State University in Raleigh; University of California inSanta Barbara; El Paso Community College in Texas; Durham Technical Community College in North Carolina; the Center for Autonomous Air Mobility and Sensing research partnership; the company Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, in Manassas, Virginia; and the nonprofit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u00a0<\/p>\n This team will research continuously updating, self-diagnostic vehicle health management to enhance the safety and reliability of Advanced Air Mobility vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Team members include: Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; The University of Texas at Arlington; University of Southern California in Los Angeles; the company Collins Aerospace of Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Argonne National Laboratory.\u00a0<\/p>\n NASA\u2019s ULI is managed by the agency\u2019s University Innovation project, which also includes the University Student Research Challenge and the Gateways to Blue Skies competition. <\/p>\n Watch the NASA Aeronautics solicitations page for the announcement of when the next opportunity will be to submit a proposal for consideration during the next round of ULI selections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n