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NASA Moving Toward Grand Challenge To Showcase Urban Air Mobility

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018

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NASA is searching for industry partners as it moves toward the first agency demonstration of Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge, or GC-1, in late 2020, according to an Oct. 15 Federal Business Opportunities notice.The NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) said that urban air mobility (UAM) "is emerging as one of the most exciting frontiers in aviation history, and the UAM ecosystem and its associated technologies are likely to be among the most complex aviation has ever seen.""The ARMD UAM…

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