Aviation View | Volume 2, Issue 3

6 AVIATION VIEW VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 g L i n e s Deloitte’s Emerging Infrastructure Technology Services group has helped state, federal, and commercial clients define their AAM strategies and roadmaps based on their unique opportunities, challenges, and needs. Deloitte combines innovative and world-class capabilities to assess the impacts, benefits and opportunities resulting from emerging technology ecosystems. Deloitte’s research indicates that U.S. aerospace and defense companies are poised to lead the nascent global industry, which is predicted to become mainstream in the 2030s. Deloitte considers AAM to be “the next inflection point in the aerospace industry’s ongoing evolution,” and is estimated to reach $115 billion annually by 2035, employing more than 280,000 workers in high-paying jobs. The NARTP’s Strategic Roadmap for AAM is available for download at www.nartp.com/aam. The NARTP is catalyzing innovation with an ecosystem of partnerships and harnessing the power of collaboration, facilitating research and development, innovation, and commercialization of emerging aviation technologies. NARTP is located on a 58-acre parcel adjoining the Federal Aviation Administration William J. Hughes Technical Center (WJHTC), an internationally recognized facility dedicated to research, development, and sustainment of the National Airspace System; and the Atlantic City International Airport (ACY), a designated Smart Airport Research Test Bed Facility. NARTP tenants are performing leading research in Unmanned Aerial Systems and Advanced Air Mobility, focusing on the safety implications of nascent UAS operational concepts, their testing and certification, as well as the emerging technologies needed to support the development of new regulatory standards. This strategy guide now gives the NARTP more leverage, tools, and direction to implement a multi-phased approach to enabling AAM in New Jersey tools, and direction to implement a multi-phased approach to enabling AAM in New Jersey. This is just one of the numerous aviation-related opportunities we are pursuing at the NARTP, and it is certainly one of the most exciting.” Deloitte notes that, “New Jersey and Atlantic County have an opportunity to develop and grow the emerging AAM market through the advancement of R&D and operational capabilities for commercial passenger and cargo operations.” Private AAM companies will be recruited as tenants of the NARTP where they will work alongside the FAA and NASA to nurture and develop AAM capabilities while developing the required physical and regulatory infrastructure for the industry to grow and thrive. Deloitte has conducted several studies regarding AAM and is recognized as an expert in this area. Deloitte provided a Strategic Roadmap for New Jersey to lead in the development of the Advanced Air Mobility industry. The plan calls for early AAM development to begin at the National Aerospace Research & Technology Park (NARTP) in Atlantic County. The first of seven planned NARTP buildings is fully leased and buildings 2 and 3 are being financed and readied for construction.