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These aviation/aerospace systems will need to be seamlessly integrated into the National Airspace System (NAS), at their operational altitude levels, and accounted for from all perspectives, including proactively addressing their safety hazards. This thesis captures the requirements for the new entrants’ integration, and then identifies and analyzes the safety risks added to the NAS operations by its new entrants, the future omnipresent UAS on different NAS levels, and the coming CSO age. Methodologies such as Functional Hazard Analysis, Subsystem and System Hazard Analysis, and Safety Risk Management are explored and integrated into the airspace new entrants’ framework and models. 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