  Research in the area of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is hampered by the lack
of available project environments in which to explore open challenges and to
propose and rigorously evaluate solutions. In this "New Ideas and Emerging
Results" paper we introduce a CPS research incubator -- based upon a system,
and its associated project environment, for managing and coordinating the
flight of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS). The research incubator provides
a new community resource, making available diverse, high-quality project
artifacts produced across multiple releases of a safety-critical CPS. It
enables researchers to experiment with their own novel solutions within a
fully-executable runtime environment that supports both high-fidelity sUAS
simulations as well as physical sUAS. Early collaborators from the software
engineering community have shown broad and enthusiastic support for the project
and its role as a research incubator, and have indicated their intention to
leverage the environment to address their own research areas of goal modeling,
runtime adaptation, safety-assurance, and software evolution.
