by admin | Dec 18, 2018 | Products, R&D, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace Systems participated with Oklahoma State University (OSU) today in the first beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone flights authorized under a new, unique FAA Certificate of Authorization (COA) allowing flights in a 13-mile long corridor in...
by admin | Nov 30, 2018 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is joining leading technology innovators from Texas and surrounding areas at the 2018 Texas Digital Summit on December 5-6, 2018 in Houston, Texas. Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been invited to participate in the Investor Office Hours...
by admin | Nov 12, 2018 | Company News, Media
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson recently spoke to Angela Shah at Xconomy about the growth and development of the unmanned aircraft industry and the future of autonomous technology. The article featured comments from Epperson on a few of Vigilant Aerospace...
by admin | Nov 6, 2018 | Products, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizonX product was successfully used by NASA to complete its Quiet Supersonic Flight campaign (QSF18) near Galveston, Texas this week. The flights are a part of NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology program. FlightHorizonX was used...
by admin | Oct 26, 2018 | Industry News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems recently gave a one-hour seminar at the inaugural meeting of the DronePort Network in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The first part of the seminar featured case studies of successful drone ports that have overcome four common obstacles in launching...
by admin | Oct 22, 2018 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace recently participated in UAS Integration Pilot Program unmanned aircraft flights over people at the Sept. 29, 2018 football tailgate at the FargoDome in Fargo, North Dakota. The flights were led by the North Dakota Department of Transportation and...
by admin | Oct 3, 2018 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is excited to have the opportunity to present at the upcoming Drone Biz luncheon hosted by the Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation (EDC). Drone Biz provides a monthly luncheon featuring presentations from local companies and...
by admin | Oct 1, 2018 | Company News, Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. has successfully participated in a ground-breaking unmanned aircraft flight that helps to pave the way for routine flights over people, a major milestone in the development of commercial drone regulations and the use of unmanned...
by admin | Sep 25, 2018 | Company News, Industry News
As a member of the North Dakota Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) team, Vigilant Aerospace Systems will provide airspace monitoring and situational awareness for the upcoming “flights-over-people” operations to occur on Saturday, Sept....
by admin | Sep 25, 2018 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ special supersonic version of its airspace management system, FlightHorizonX, is currently being used by NASA in a series of flight tests to validate a new supersonic transponder and to explore sonic boom mitigation as part of a...
by admin | Sep 24, 2018 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace presented a seminar on overcoming obstacles to launching a droneport at the inaugural meeting of the new Droneport Network on Sept. 12, 2018. The meeting was a part of the UAS Tech Forum 2018, the flagship event of the US Small Business...
by admin | Sep 19, 2018 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ Integration Pilot Program (IPP) partners from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are launching their IPP operations with announcements on regulatory progress and presentations from IPP partners at the annual Alaska UAS Interest...
by admin | Sep 17, 2018 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace has partnered with the Alaska Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) team, led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, to provide real-time situational awareness, airspace safety and detect-and-avoid services to the team using...
by admin | Sep 6, 2018 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, served on two panels during InterDrone 2018. Our discussion on the panel, “The Future of Chips and Sensors Powering Next-Gen Drones,” on September 5, 2018, included a wide-ranging discussion of how we incorporate...
by admin | Aug 31, 2018 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace was a sponsor and presenter at the recent 2018 UAS Summit & Expo produced by UAS Magazine and held in Grand Forks, ND this past week. Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, presented “New Models for Integration of Unmanned Aircraft...
by admin | Aug 23, 2018 | Events
It was an honor to be invited to speak on the 2018 UAS Summit & Expo in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli Epperson took the stage during the “UAS Service Suppliers: The Models that Generate Real Revenue” session on day two of the...
by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace will be the featured presenter at the inaugural meeting of the new DronePort Network, to be held at 2PM on Wednesday, September 12 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The DronePort Network is a new US trade organization designed to aid individuals and groups...
by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | Industry News
What is the future of unmanned aircraft in the US and how can we move forward? These are the questions that an article in Communications, the magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently asked our CEO while profiling the Federal Aviation...
by admin | Aug 2, 2018 | Company News, Products, R&D
As we eagerly anticipate the release of our FlightHorizon 2.0 platform, we wanted to highlight a few of the changes that have us so excited. FlightHorizon 2.0 is more than an update to FlightHorizon 1.0. It is a complete re-write and re-architecture of the software,...
by admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, will be making a presentation titled “New Models for Integration of UAS into the National Airspace” at the upcoming UAS Summit & Expo 2018 being held on August 20 to 22 in Grand Forks, ND. The...
by admin | Jul 30, 2018 | Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO will be discussing emerging sensor and processing technologies and artificial intelligence for beyond visual line-of-sight and autonomous drones on two different panels at the upcoming InterDrone 2018 conference. InterDrone is North...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace will be moderating a panel on drones and cybersecurity and exhibiting at the upcoming UAS Tech Forum 2018 and has also announced a sponsorship of the event’s organizer, the US Small Business Administration’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli L. Epperson will be serving on the upcoming panel, “OKC Tech Transfer Success Stories: Sourcing Technology from Federal Labs,” at the Federal Laboratories Consortium (FLC) Far West and Mid-Continent Regions Annual Meeting...
by admin | Jul 24, 2018 | Industry News, Regulation
The North Dakota UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP) Team has announced that it will focus on techniques and technologies that enable safe, routine flights over people, night operations and flights beyond visual line of sight according to a new statement from the...
by admin | Jul 18, 2018 | Company News, R&D
A new NASA report profiles three projects in which the agency has used Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizon software to (1) demonstrate detect-and-avoid capabilities to advance integration of unmanned aircraft into the US national airspace; (2) help in development...
by admin | Jun 15, 2018 | Industry News
Business Insider has released the latest “Drone for the Enterprise” report featuring information and analysis on “how various industries are leveraging drones to increase efficiency and cut costs.” The report focuses on five industries that are...
by admin | Jun 12, 2018 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been invited to join industry experts on the ASTM F38 Committee on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and airspace management system provides critical airspace awareness and...
by admin | Jun 1, 2018 | Events
We are honored to have been invited to speak at the 2018 Drone Focus conference in Fargo, North Dakota in front of 500+ UAS industry professionals this past week. Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson took to the main stage on May 30, 2018 – the first day...
by admin | May 11, 2018 | Company News, Industry News, Regulation
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have announced the Integration Pilot Program Lead Participants (or “Lead Participants”) for the UAS Integration Pilot Program (UIPP). We were excited to announce this...
by admin | May 10, 2018 | Client News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace has been selected to provide detect-and-avoid and airspace safety systems using our FlightHorizon product to two Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (UIPP) participants, selected and announced yesterday by the FAA. The two...
by admin | May 10, 2018 | Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace would like to thank everyone who attended our Solutions Theater presentation on “Emerging Technology and Solutions for UAS Airspace Integration and Active Detect-and-Avoid to Enable Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight Flight” last week at AUVSI...
by admin | May 9, 2018 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace is providing detect-and-avoid and airspace management solutions using its FlightHorizon product to two of the ten winning Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Programs (UIPP) announced today by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and US...
by admin | May 9, 2018 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace is pleased to announce the launch of our new national sales office located in North Dakota and the addition of Business Development Manager Ryan Aasheim. “The UAS [unmanned aircraft systems] industry is entering a phase of rapid expansion and a...
by admin | Apr 18, 2018 | Industry News
A new market intelligence report from BIS Research forecasts the market for UAV sense-and-avoid systems to reach $3.6Bn by 2022 and names Vigilant Aerospace Systems as a key player in the rising market. The study, titled “Global UAV Sense and Avoid Systems...
by admin | Apr 16, 2018 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli Epperson has been selected to present one of a limited number of “TED talk”-style presentations on the main stage at the upcoming 2018 Drone Focus Conference in Fargo, North Dakota on Wednesday, May 30th and Thursday, May...
by admin | Apr 15, 2018 | Client News, Products, R&D, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace is developing a version of FlightHorizon GCS, currently dubbed “FlightHorizonX,” that has been modified to support enhanced ADS-B transponders designed for supersonic aircraft and spacecraft tracking by NASA Armstrong Flight Research...
by admin | Apr 11, 2018 | Products
Vigilant Aerospace has published a new list of hardware that is known to be compatible with our FlightHorizon product line, particularly for unmanned aircraft detect-and-avoid purposes and for general airspace management and situational awareness. This list is...
by admin | Apr 5, 2018 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace is joining Oklahoma aviation and aerospace professionals at the upcoming “AERO Oklahoma Advocacy Day” at the Oklahoma State Capitol on April 24, 2018. The event is organized by the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission, a commission appointed...
by admin | Apr 5, 2018 | Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace will be presenting at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2018 on the first day of the conference, Tuesday, May 1 at 3:30 PM at the Solutions Theater in the XPO Hall. AUVSI XPONENTIAL is the world’s largest trade show for unmanned systems. The company’s...
by admin | Apr 2, 2018 | Client News, Company News, Industry News
FlightHorizon COMMANDER has been selected by the Commercial Supersonic Technology (CST) 2018-2019 development program at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center to provide airspace situational awareness and detailed flight logging of research flights. FlightHorizon...
by admin | Mar 20, 2018 | Industry News
The FAA has released its latest Aerospace Forecast for 2018-2038 and the new forecast reports that the commercial sUAS market is growing faster than expected with more than 110,604 commercial sUAS registered by the end of 2017. Last year, we forecasted that the...
by admin | Mar 1, 2018 | Industry News
The FAA has released the most recent UAS Sightings Reports covering January 1, 2017 through September 30, 2017. The report indicates an increase of 99% in the average number of daily encounters reported between manned and unmanned aircraft in 2017 versus the 2015...
by admin | Feb 22, 2018 | Industry News, Media
The latest article on the unmanned aircraft industry in Crunchbase quotes Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli L. Epperson in the first few lines. The article, “21 Early-Stage Drone Companies To Watch Out For (Literally),” cites the company’s expertise in...
by admin | Feb 10, 2018 | Company News
FlightHorizon was recently selected and used to provide airspace management, safety, detailed flight logging, and real-time flight formation management for the “NASA-DLR Multidisciplinary Airborne Experiment” (ND-MAX) research flights headed by the...
by admin | Feb 1, 2018 | Awards & Recognition, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is proud to be recognized as one of the “most active and relevant players in the drone industry” by Drone Industry Insights (DRONEII) as a part of the recently published 2018 Drone Market Environment Map. The company is listed as...
