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Miami International and Miami-Dade unveil $33M AI Airport Operations Center (AOC) and start air-taxi and drone management trials

Miami International Airport and Miami-Dade County plan a $33 million Airport Operations Center with AI and 360-degree monitoring, targeting opening in 2027. The county also plans to test air-taxi management, beginning with drone trials and then scaling toward larger electric air-taxi operations, using BDI’s ALTA platform at Miami Executive as part of Florida’s AAM planning.

Discovered 2026-05-19T02:25:14.065030-07:00 | 2026-05-19T02:25:14.065030-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • The $33M, AI-and-360-degree monitored AOC sets a near-term blueprint for how airports may operationalize decision support and situational awareness ahead of scale-up in new aerial operations.
  • Miami-Dade’s staged approach—starting with drones, then moving toward electric air taxis—directly tests management concepts that will matter for safety cases and operational integration, complementing national work on AI-enabled ATM like the FAA’s predictive roadmap (source:5adc009f-3c5f-4b0c-958d-6fe038c68a4b).
  • The use of BDI’s ALTA platform for air-taxi management ties local infrastructure and procedures to the broader AAM pilot framework already being pursued in the U.S., including multi-state trial planning (source:4c0d356d-0465-4f66-ac8e-d1a3e6f787de).

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