SkyGrid and Port San Antonio have entered into a memorandum of understanding to jointly evaluate the digital, regulatory, and operational frameworks needed to integrate advanced air mobility operations at the Port’s Tech Port campus in Texas.
The collaboration focuses on the Port San Antonio Tech Port, a 1,900-acre joint-use airfield, where the partners will assess requirements for scaling both crewed and uncrewed aircraft operations. The work will examine how digital airspace services, automation, and operational assurance systems can support safe integration within shared, regulated airspace.
The initiative prioritizes infrastructure and systems rather than aircraft development. Under the agreement, the partners will analyze advanced air mobility concepts of operations, airspace design and routing, low-altitude traffic surveillance, micro-weather monitoring, and air traffic management integration. The scope also includes airport and vertiport operational concepts, communication, navigation, and surveillance systems, and cyber-resilient digital infrastructure.
The collaboration builds on Port San Antonio’s existing aviation and technology footprint, including its ongoing efforts to develop vertiport infrastructure and its role as a long-standing aviation operations hub. The campus hosts one of Boeing’s largest aircraft maintenance and modernization operations, and Texas has been identified as a launch market for autonomous advanced air mobility services linked to SkyGrid’s digital platforms.
The partners will also explore alignment with future state and federal aviation initiatives, including potential participation in the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program and other national aviation modernization efforts.