What Happened
Federal Aviation Administration Expands AI Use In Air Traffic Management
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a $875 million contract to Air Space Intelligence for an AI advisory system called SMART, which aims to help manage air traffic congestion. The system will analyze airline schedules, weather data, and airport capacity to provide predictive congestion recommendations. However, experts are raising concerns about the accountability gap in the contract, particularly in cases where a prediction is wrong and a controller acts on it. The contract’s lack of publicly documented performance gates before scope expansion has also raised eyebrows, according to reports from Unknown Source.