Category: FAA / DoT

AI / ML / Big Data

“I’m Here to Learn.”

An Exclusive Conversation with the FAA’s AI Guru, Dr. Trung Pham

By Rick Adams, FRAeS

“I joined the FAA in June 2022, Had a six-month honeymoon period. And then around February 2023, I was called by REDAC [the Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committee – which provides advice and recommendations to the FAA Administrator on the needs, objectives, plans, approaches, content, and accomplishments of the aviation research portfolio]. The REDAC asked me what happened to the Roadmap that they recommended.”

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AI / ML / Big Data

Sorry, Siri. Apologies, Alexa. You Cannot Be a Virtual Co-Pilot.

By Rick Adams, FRAeS

Four years after the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published its initial roadmap for addressing artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI / ML) applications in aviation, and a year after EASA issued Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2.0, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Safety Assurance, Version 1.

With a “humble attitude,” the FAA’s Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor in AI/ML, Dr. Trung T. Pham, said, “Being second allows a learning opportunity from the first.”

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