The Seamless Skies Awards recognise exceptional achievements in the global air traffic management (ATM) and UAS traffic management (UTM) sectors during 2025, covering all levels of airspace management, from low level to 60,000ft and above.
These are the categories:
Collaborative operations for sustainable skies
This award recognises successful partnerships between ANSPs, industry, aircraft operators, research organisations and others to deliver new levels of airspace management performance – improving safety, reducing delays and environmental impact while delivering a more cost-effective operational outcome.
Innovation to enable safer, more efficient airspace operations
Driving advancements in technology, automation, and operations to shape the skies of tomorrow. This award celebrates projects that explore the latest innovations demonstrating how cutting-edge technologies such as digitisation, virtualisation, and artificial intelligence can enhance performance, efficiency, safety, sustainability, and capacity in airspace operations.
Safety, security & resilience
This award acknowledges projects which support resilience to disruptions and unforeseen events and maximise operational performance ensuring that both safety and service continuity in extreme circumstances is possible.
Building the lower airspace economy
With drones, eVTOLs and personal flying vehicles about to take to the skies in increasing numbers, this award acknowledges the work that has been done to prepare lower airspace for safe and efficient new entrant operations, including integration with current ATM systems and procedures.
Remarkable people & workforce
This award celebrates the contribution that individuals, teams or company programmes have made to the airspace management industry – which could be ensuring the continuance of operations during crises or delivering an improved performance to customers.
Seamless Skies for All
A project or organisation which has delivered a measurable improvement to the optimisation of airspace management performance, supporting airspace users meet their business and operational goals.
Details on how to enter, deadlines for submissions, judging panel and other related content will be published soon. In the meantime, for more information on the awards, please visit: https://globalairspaceradar.com/awards/