Like many other things in the legacy of aviation, NUAIR’s success comes from a system of systems. A team of industry-leading products and solutions in their own right, the NUAIR Alliance comes together to enable the NUAIR Center of Excellence – headquarters of Advanced Air Mobility in Central New York and influencing the Next generation of aviation around the globe. ResilienX incorporates data integrity and confidence for the Alliance through system wide situational awareness. In this blog, we’ve invited the team to introduce themselves…
Can you explain what ResilienX does as if we knew nothing about it or the aviation market?
ResilienX develops software that enables drone ecosystems to answer two crucial questions:
- How do you know everything is working correctly?
- What do you do when something goes wrong?
By enabling our customers to answer these customers to regulators, our software helps make the safety case for advanced drone operations such as beyond visual line or sight (BVLOS) or one pilot to many drones.
What is the history of ResilienX and how did the organization get started in this space?
ResilienX started in 2019, with seed funding from the Genius NY program. The idea started with work the founding team had done on the US Army Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) program, which was approved by the FAA for routine BVLOS operations and deployed in 2016. Roughly 25% of that system of systems was dedicated to monitoring the health, integrity, and performance of the system and mitigating an faults, failures, or adverse conditions encountered. When we moved to the commercial space in 2017, that 25% was completely unaccounted for by the commercial industry. We took that as an opportunity and brought some the leaders of the GBSAA team together to fill the gap.
What are three ways that ResilienX changes the landscape of our industry?
NASA coined the term in-time aviation safety management systems (IASMS) about the same time we were founded and has since done research and written whitepapers around the need for IASMS in scaled, autonomous ecosystems. We have latched on to this terminology and body of research, which has identified a multitude of benefits for applying IASMS capabilities. Three specific benefits include:
- The FAA guidance for Associated Elements requires “an in-service monitoring criteria to detect out-of-compliance performance and initiate corrective action.” The ResilienX FRAIHMWORK software provides a means to meet this requirement across a scaled ecosystem of Associated Elements.
- Maintaining complex, distributed, federated systems is hard. Our software enables maintenance KPI tracking, SLA verification, debugging analysis, logging, and maintenance workflows for ecosystems that graduate R&D and move to the operations and maintenance (O&M) stage of the systems life cycle.
- Autonomy requires data quality assurance. Systems making safety critical decisions based on bad, incomplete, latent, or misleading data will reduce trust in the system and potentially have dangerous consequences. ResilienX provides real-time data quality assurance across all data feeds to verify the data being used to make these automated decisions.
What makes ResilienX different from other providers in the market?
The patent pending ResilienX FRAIHMWORK is currently the market leading IASMS. Through involvement in government sponsored R&D and demonstrations, commercial deployments, and internal testing, FRAIHMWORK is currently TRL8, and is expected to reach TRL9 by the end of 2024.
What is the biggest takeaway you want people reading this to know about ResilienX?
Whether it is our solution or another solution, the Advanced Air Mobility industry will need to address the requirements our software provides. These requirements are present throughout regulatory guidance from the FAA and EASA, are found in ASTM standards, and have been the identified in safety cases across the industry.
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