Finding Common Ground: A Value-Focused Approach to Military UAS Airspace Integration

Abstract

Integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into nonsegregated1 airspace is a topic of much debate and significant energy, particularly with respect to military operations. This paper applies leading‐edge research in enterprise architecting and value focused thinking to examine the development of alternative approaches to the U.S. military’s UAS airspace integration challenge. The motivation for this research drew upon several years of experience the author had in attempting to coordinate and integrate multiple U.S. military and other government agencies in an effort to secure wider operational use of nonsegregated airspace for military UAS operations.