Okuary Osechas
- Researcher
- Zurich USA, Switzerland
Okuary is a researcher with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, focused on making GNSS navigation resilient for civil aviation. Before joining Zurich UAS he led the group for Alternative Navigation Systems at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
For his PhD, Okuary attended Tufts University, in Boston, Massachusetts, where the FAA sponsored him to develop novel integrity monitoring strategies for GNSS.
Okuary chairs Working Group 85 at EUROCAE, which maintains the standards for Required Navigation Performance, together with RTCA SC-227. The group released new versions of the standards in March 2025, making RNP more independent of GNSS.
Current research, sponsored by EUROCONTROL, has seen Okuary’s team propose a variety of ways in which RNP, and with it Trajectory-Based Operations, can be saved from the new epidemic of GNSS jamming and spoofing.
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From Air to Ground
Safer skies rely on Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems that rely on Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) to ensure safe and efficient air traffic flow. ANSPs operating remote centres and towers managing airspace architecture, an integrated ATC, and coordinating aircraft movements, have an increasing workload. How do developments in 4D trajectory based ops (TBO) support air traffic flow? What’s the latest in Performance Based Navigation (PBN), and IRIS Air Traffic Modernization Programme? Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize ATM by improving separation standards, optimizing ground movement, and streamlining take-off procedures. What are the current discussions on AI teaming and online machine learning? By considering factors such as UAM, EVTOLs, UAVs, drone traffic, helicopter operations, and other aircraft types, AI can also assist in developing more efficient and resilient airspace management strategies.