{"id":6965,"date":"2026-04-17T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:59:11","slug":"faa-quietly-developing-ai-enabled-predictive-air-traffic-management-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/6965\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA quietly developing AI-enabled predictive air traffic management system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theaircurrent.memberful.com\/account\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log-in here<\/a> if you\u2019re already a subscriber<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/faa-smart-unveil-pdf-card.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-lets-info-up-d1 size-lets-info-up-d1\" alt=\"\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration is quietly developing a new artificial intelligence-powered software tool for air traffic management that could fundamentally change how the U.S. airspace system operates, according to several people familiar with the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART), the stealthy program is being spearheaded personally by Administrator Bryan Bedford who views it as a central pillar of the FAA\u2019s airspace modernization and redesign efforts. Three companies \u2014 Palantir, Thales and Airspace Intelligence (ASI) \u2014 have been brought in to compete on the initiative, which could be operational in some form as soon as later this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SMART could enable the FAA to plan for bottlenecks and anticipate schedule conflicts before an aircraft even leaves the ground, the familiar people said, a distinct shift from today\u2019s human-centric, reactive ATC structure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have three companies right now that are working with us on developing software to look at even how flights are managed,\u201d Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on April 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/semafor\/status\/2045144913268949035?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">at a Semafor event<\/a>, obliquely acknowledging the effort for the first time. \u201cThis software, as they look at the flight paths, won\u2019t see [potential conflicts] 15 minutes before it happens \u2026 a controller will get a notice that they could change one of the airplane\u2019s flight paths slightly and they can deconflict it an hour and a half or two hours before the conflict even happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Department of Transportation and FAA officials are expected to provide more details about SMART at a press event currently scheduled for April 21, according to the familiar people.<\/p>\n<p>        Subscribe to Continue Reading<\/p>\n<p>Our award-winning aerospace reporting combines the highest standards of journalism with the level of technical detail and rigor expected by a sophisticated industry audience.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying<br \/>\nFull access to our archive of industry intelligence<br \/>\nWe respect your time; everything we publish earns your attention<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.theaircurrent.com\" class=\"post-subscribe-block-cta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Log-in here if you\u2019re already a subscriber The Federal Aviation Administration is quietly developing a new artificial intelligence-powered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,6329,6330,25,6331,6332,6333,3126,6334,361,6335,6336,6337,6338,6339],"class_list":{"0":"post-6965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-airspace-intelligence","10":"tag-alaska-airlines","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-bryan-bedford","13":"tag-ff-ice","14":"tag-flyways","15":"tag-foundry","16":"tag-maastricht-upper-area-control-centre","17":"tag-palantir","18":"tag-sean-duffy","19":"tag-steve-fulton","20":"tag-thales","21":"tag-time-based-flow-management","22":"tag-trajectory-based-operations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}