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EASA Announces Tenders for New Aviation Safety Research Projects
New European Union-funded research includes technology of direct relevance to the advanced air mobility sector.
Daedalean uses artificial intelligence to develop safe air traffic management for autonomous aircraft.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technology like that being developed by Daedalean is the subject of a new EU-funded research project being overseen by EASA. (Image: Daedalean)

The European Union (EU) is funding new research into artificial intelligence (AI) technology and standards for the safe use of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS). As part of its Horizon Europe research and innovation program, the EU this week launched a tender process covering these and three other aviation safety projects that the EASA will manage.

The AI-related work is covered by the EU’s new Machine Learning Application Approval project, which is intended to streamline the certification and approval processes for this technology in aviation applications. It will seek to identify “concrete means of compliance” to support EASA’s guidance on machine learning applications, covered by levels 1, 2, and 3 in the European aviation safety regulator’s AI Roadmap.