We're sensitive to the fact that successfully interacting with people is tough. We call it "people-ing". It takes years of practice and deliberate focus. There are numerous professional development courses to help us "people". 
It's alot. 
It's especially overwhelming of you're an introvert. 
In our experience, most engineers and data scientists are introverts. It makes "people-ing" especially stressful and difficult to master. 
Not every organization has enough funding to supplement their staff with those who "people" well. And not every extroverted engineer can be all things all the time before burning out, effectively short-circuiting the long game before you really get started.
Fortunately, over the last 35 years we've made some great friends that come from all aspects of the combined ecosystem. Our network of top-notch professionals consists of FAA and all of its orgnizations, various Department of Defense experts up through the Pentagon, Homeland Security organizations, various State, Local, Tribal and Territorial governments, academics, brilliant researchers, amazing consultants and contractors, industry OEMs and operators, and have remained dedicated to the profesiosnal organizations that support them. 
On that rare occasion we don't have a POC in the area you need one, we'll quickly know someone who does.

We're here to help get you connected and establish the business relationships you need to be successful. 

We can help you "people"

Our National Airspace System (NAS) is a product of decades of learning, evolving, and innovative advancements. We've come a long way from shrimp boats, manually-generated flight plans, and green screens. As our learning progressed, we adapted processes and procedures to reach the highest levels of safety, and technology advancements enabled us to automate each step along the path to future flight.
The NAS is also a victim of continuous budget cuts supporting an aging infrastructure. This puts a sizable amount of stress on existing components, fragile interfaces, and the ability to do much about it while keeping the lights on and maintaining the safest airspace in the world.
Our over 35 years in this industry help you understand the complexities of entering into this spider web of systems of systems. We've been involved at different phases of research, design, policy development, and operational implementation of various steps along the NAS path to today. We have the context you need to make business decisions driving an approach to operating within today's NAS with an eye toward the future. 

This is where reality is born. 

This is where the "what if" questions are answered and the "if-then" solutions are learned by doing. It's where the context for today's NAS is revealed as a decoder ring for the steps you need to take to make progress.  It's here that you learn wny it's critical to have a breadth of knowledge beyond your individual mission in order to consider an enterprise solution. 

Then get after it.

We can give you insight into why, for example, the operational construct of the FAA's Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) for legacy aviation is a cornerstone for understanding some of the basic the principles of UAS Traffic Management (UTM).
We can help you realize how your individual mission touches other NAS compnents or services used by other NAS stakeholders, and why/how that touch introduces delays, added complexity, or policy review.

FInally, we have years of experience capturing and incorporating lessons learned into process improvements and Standard Operating Procedures to help you stay on the front edge of your own innovation and the learning of others. 

There are two facets of regulation services we offer: 


1. A functional understanding of the Code of Federal Regulations Title 14 Aeronautics and Space. We will help you find the applicable sections relevant to your operations, solicit federal guidance/interpretation when the language doesn't seem to fit your operation exactly right, and draft proposed updates you can offer during comment submission windows.


2. Connectivity to working groups addressing the regulatory language gaps you're struggling with to help you add your voice, and therefore your unique perspective, to the broader community discussion. We've learned that the more diversity we bring into these types of discussions, whether they are happening within standards bodies, public-private-partnerships, or aviation rulemaking committees, the output value is always more meaningful to a broader set of operators.