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FAA says AI will assist controllers, names ASI as winner of traffic-management competition
Summary
FAA officials said AI tools will assist but not control air-traffic operations; the agency named ASI the winner of a competition for strategic traffic-management tools and described a "digital twin" built with Palantir and Thales for trajectory modeling.
A reporter asked how artificial intelligence will interface with new radars and why ASI was chosen to help modernize FAA systems. The Secretary said AI is intended as an assistive tool and explicitly stated, "AI will not control our airspace. That is left to our air traffic controllers." He emphasized that decisions remain human-led even as software tools improve situational awareness.
Administrator Brian Bedford described a broader program to create a digital twin of national trajectories with Palantir, Thales and ASI at NASA to provide visibility into traffic flows. "We created a digital twin... we can now actually see how these trajectories will actually operate in space," Bedford said, adding that the experiments revealed systemic capacity constraints and that ASI "out-innovated the other 2 guys" in the competition.
