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Following widespread disruption caused by recent outages in the UK's air traffic control system, run by NATS, questions are being raised about its resilience. ISA Co-Director Professor John McDermid, shares his perspective on what went wrong and what steps need to be taken to build future resilience. Professor McDermid is also Lloyd's Register Foundation Chair of Safety at the University of York and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

A fleet of autonomous aircraft, flying high above the Earth, could be used to deliver mobile coverage to remote areas of the UK, as part of a new project that has received funding.

The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe Artificial Intelligence Systems (SAINTS), part of the Institute for Safe Autonomy, has been shortlisted at this year’s Times Higher Education Awards.

From developing drones that assist emergency teams with disaster relief to creating a system that lets autonomous ships communicate safely with other vessels, four cross-cutting research projects have been awarded seed funding from the Institute for Safe Autonomy this year.