Mr. Sultan is Director of the Airspace Operations and Safety Program at NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and has championed the advancement of ATM and Aviation Safety for more than 25 years. He is responsible for senior executive leadership of NASA’s research portfolio across four NASA research centers for safe and efficient integration of current and emergent users into the NAS. The program conducts cutting edge research in airspace operations, vehicle command and control, and safety technologies on commercial aviation, Advanced Air Mobility, UAS, Autonomous Vehicles, Emergency Response Operations for Wildfire Management, and sustainability for low emissions, fuel, noise, and contrails. He is also responsible for aviation safety research in areas of aircraft state awareness, prevention of aircraft loss of control, verification and validation of complex systems, prognostic safety through data mining, and in-time system wide safety assurance. He is leading the development of the mid-century NASA Sky For All vision to further the transition to a digital service-oriented architecture that is prognostic, collaborative, scalable, and dynamically adaptive for all future users. He is leading NASA’s R&D for Autonomy integration into the National Airspace, where he is championing the advancement of next generation revolutionary research and development in ML and Generative AI for conflict prediction, contingency management, air traffic management, auto-taxi, auto-land, dynamic approach and departure procedures, aviation safety management, V&V, and assurance of autonomy. He is the co-lead for the NASA and FAA Research Transition Teams which have resulted in transfer of major technology transfer to FAA for implementation through TBFM, TFDM, TFMS, and UTM. He is also the NASA executive representative on the Aviation Safety Team, Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing ExCom, FAA NextGen Advisory Committee Subcommittee, and FAA Research Engineering Development Advisory Committee NAS Operations and Safety and Aircraft Safety Subcommittees. As the Director for NASA’s Airspace Operations and Safety Program, Mr. Sultan has championed the advancement Air Traffic Management and Aviation Safety for more than two decades. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering, and Dual Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical Science and Engineering.