Boeing Donates $5.1M for ERAU Safety Research Center
ERAU's aviation safety center, headed by former NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt, will research safety risk issues that could drive improvement in the industry.
Digital rendering of Boeing Center for Aviation and Aerospace Safety at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
A Boeing donation will help ERAU's aviation safety center expand its research efforts in areas of operational risk. (Rendering: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)

Boeing has donated $5.1 million to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for a research center at its Daytona Beach, Florida campus. The center, headed up by former National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt, will explore safety improvements throughout the industry.

Named the Boeing Center for Aviation and Aerospace Safety at Embry-Riddle, the facility will be used for research involving operational safety risk, encompassing topics such as data analytics to predict and potentially prevent safety incidents; runway safety; safety management systems; risk management; and the integration of new entrants into the global airspace system, among others.

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