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FAA Eyeing AI, Machine Learning To Optimize Airspace, Scheduling
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford outlined vision to move FAA into the future
Bryan Bedford at Royal Aeronautical Society talk in Washington, D.C.
Bryan Bedford provides an update before a Royal Aeronautical Society event in Washington, D.C. © Kerry Lynch/AIN

The FAA’s busy modernization agenda includes an effort to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to better manage airspace flow and reduce scheduling problems at busy airports, agency Administrator Bryan Bedford told an audience at a Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 becoming law and laying the foundation for civil aviation regulation and ultimately the establishment of the FAA.

Bedford delved into the future of the agency, outlining three prongs: air traffic control equipment modernization, staffing issues, and airspace redesign. 

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