by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Events, Featured
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been invited to speak at the upcoming AUVSI Business of Automated Mobility (BAM) Virtual Forum event on June 23-24, 2021. The session titled “Developing and Testing a Real-World, Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight, Multi-Sensor...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Events, Featured
Vigilant Aerospace is joining mobility industry leaders at the upcoming 2021 SAE Innovations in Mobility: Aerospace Digital Summit live, virtual event on May 18-20, 2021. The Innovations in Mobility: Aerospace Digital Summit will feature presentations and discussions...
by admin | Mar 15, 2021 | Events, Featured
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been invited to participate in a panel at the upcoming 2021 AUVSI XPONENTIAL virtual event on May 3-6, 2021. The 45-minute panel titled “New Technologies, Standards and Development in the Delivery of Viable Detect-and-Avoid Systems...
by admin | Nov 19, 2020 | Company News, Featured
Vigilant Aerospace announced today the addition of software engineers Jesse Smith and Jack Maring to the company’s growing technical team. Both are accomplished software developers who will be working to launch and support new versions of the company’s...
by admin | Nov 12, 2020 | Company News, Featured
Vigilant Aerospace Systems announced today the appointment of Zach Peterson as its new Business Development Manager. Peterson will be leading sales and marketing for the company as well as contributing to product management and strategic growth opportunities. Peterson...
by admin | Oct 6, 2020 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson will be presenting a technical overview and real-world case study from the company’s recent beyond visual line-of-sight drone flights using a multi-sensor detect-and-avoid system at the upcoming UAS Summit & Expo. The...
by admin | Oct 1, 2020 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been invited to be a panelist in the XPONENTIAL virtual pavilion roundtable discussion on “Oklahoma’s Role Influencing UAS Policy” hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce on October 6th. The hour and a half...
by admin | Sep 29, 2020 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace and Oklahoma State University are presenting a panel session on using droneports for the development of innovative new unmanned aircraft technologies including advanced safety systems for beyond visual line-of-sight flight at the upcoming DronePort...
by admin | Sep 22, 2020 | Awards & Recognition
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been named one of the “2021 Best Tech Startups in Oklahoma City” by the Tech Tribune for the second year running (see 2020 Best Tech Startups in Oklahoma City announcement). The “Best Tech Startups” list is the...
by admin | Sep 22, 2020 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, has been invited to make a presentation on October 7th at the upcoming AUVSI XPONENTIAL conference on the company’s record-setting 18-mile fully autonomous drone flight carried out by the company with...
by admin | Sep 8, 2020 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems will be participating in this week’s 2020 UAS Tech Forum as a sponsor and steering committee member while company CEO Kraettli L. Epperson will be moderating a panel on Remote ID for unmanned aircraft, providing a coffee break chat on...
by admin | Jun 4, 2020 | Company News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has signed a new patent license agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) covering the use of radar in detect-and-avoid and unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems, including in the company’s FlightHorizon...
by admin | Jun 2, 2020 | Company News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has participated as a co-author on a research paper from Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) titled “Testing and Evaluation of UTM Systems in a BVLOS Environment.” The paper has been...
by admin | May 28, 2020 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO, Kraettli Epperson, has joined the steering and event planning committee for the upcoming 2020 UAS Tech Forum, set for September 16th and 17th at the Embassy Suites in Oklahoma City. “The UAS Tech Forum brings together the...
by admin | May 18, 2020 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems recently participated in a pandemic response test flight with Oklahoma State University and MaxQ on April 16th at the Oklahoma State University Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Station. The flights were led by the Oklahoma State University...
by admin | May 8, 2020 | Company News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli L. Epperson recently participated in a webinar hosted by the UAS Cluster Initiative (UAS CI) of Oklahoma and Kansas which featured a panel discussing “COVID Operations: How drone companies are responding to help...
by admin | May 5, 2020 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been invited to present a webinar on “COVID Operations: How drone companies are responding to help stop the Coronavirus pandemic” at 1:00 PM CT on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Hosted by the UAS Cluster Initiative of Oklahoma and...
by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Company News, Industry News, Media, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace provided its FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and airspace management system to enable beyond visual line-of-sight capabilities for a demonstration flight of Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) specially modified medical supply delivery drone on...
by admin | Apr 14, 2020 | Company News, Industry News
Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) research team, including Vigilant Aerospace, was selected by NASA for a new project to use real-time weather forecasting to improve flight safety for unmanned aircraft. The four-year research project will use Vigilant...
by admin | Apr 13, 2020 | Careers, Company News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace has announced the opening of a new office in North Dakota to take advantage of the high-quality aerospace and software engineering talent in the state and the state’s emerging role as the “Silicon Valley” of drones. Vigilant...
by admin | Apr 2, 2020 | Company News
The Tech Tribune has just released the latest article in their “Profile of a Founder” series featuring an interview with Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson. The Profile of a Founder series is an exclusive interview series highlighting...
by admin | Apr 1, 2020 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace has been awarded a contract under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Solicitation Number 692M15-19-R-00020 Call 001 by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to carry out flight testing with multiple radar systems as inputs to the company’s...
by admin | Mar 27, 2020 | Awards & Recognition, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace’s blog was recently named as one of Feedspot’s “Top 15 Aerospace Blogs and Websites to Follow in 2020.” The list is published annually by Feedspot, a leading news aggregator with 400 million daily users, tracking for 200,000...
by admin | Mar 25, 2020 | Awards & Recognition, Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is honored to be recognized by The Tech Tribune as one of the Best Oklahoma Tech Startups in their annual state-by-state listing of the most promising tech startups in the US. The Tech Tribune list, titled “2020 Best Tech Startups in...
by admin | Mar 10, 2020 | Company News, Industry News, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, recently spoke to Dale Denwalt [Dale on Twitter] at the The Oklahoman about the development of autonomous systems and the market opportunity for commercial drones in the state of Oklahoma. Some highlights...
by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Company News, Events
*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE *** Vigilant Aerospace has announced that it will be hosting a booth and that its CEO will be participating in the program for the upcoming Oklahoma City Innovation District Annual Symposium on Autonomous Systems...
by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Company News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace achieved several important milestones in the development of FlightHorizon, its safety system for unmanned aircraft, during its recent flight test with Oklahoma State University (OSU) on February 13. The flight is the second in a series of flights...
by admin | Feb 5, 2020 | Company News, Featured, Industry News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has signed a new license agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) extending the company’s existing detect-and-avoid and radar technology patent licenses to include military aviation applications. This new license...
by admin | Feb 4, 2020 | Company News
As we begin 2020, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the biggest news items from Vigilant Aerospace in 2019: 2019 Company News US State Department Commodity Jurisdiction Determination Obtained for Export of FlightHorizon Vigilant Aerospace Systems obtained a...
by admin | Dec 9, 2019 | Awards & Recognition, Client News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems congratulates NASA and Lockheed Martin on the new low-boom supersonic aircraft, the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSSt), being selected by Popular Science Magazine as one of “The most impressive aerospace innovations of...
by admin | Oct 30, 2019 | Events, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson recently presented a webinar titled “Remote ID for Commercial UAS: What is it, How does it work, and Why does it matter?” “Remote ID matters, first and foremost, as a national security and...
by admin | Oct 10, 2019 | Company News, R&D
On October 8, 2019, Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Vigilant Aerospace Systems (Vigilant) conducted a demonstration flight utilizing OSU’s 13-mile beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) corridor east of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The demonstration was used to evaluate...
by admin | Oct 9, 2019 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is presenting a webinar titled “Remote ID for Commercial Unmanned Aircraft: What Is It, How Does It Work and Why Does It Matter?” The webinar will be on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 12:00 PM CT. Hosted by the UAS Cluster...
by admin | Sep 20, 2019 | Company News
Are you interested in developing a droneport for your community? What are the initial considerations regarding systems, safety and authorizations at a new droneport? Vigilant Aerospace has recently published a 10-minute video answering many of the frequently asked...
by admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Awards & Recognition, Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been named as one of the top eight technology startups in Oklahoma City by The Tech Tribune in their annual city-by-city listings of the most promising tech startups in major cities throughout the US. The list, titled “2020 Best...
by admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is joining unmanned aircraft systems professionals, drone service providers, economic development professionals, and entrepreneurs at the upcoming DronePort Network Seminar on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 in Salina, Kansas. Vigilant Aerospace...
by admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is honored to be invited to join industry professionals in a panel discussion titled “Droneports, Redefining the UAS Industry” at the upcoming 2019 UAS Tech Forum event in Salina, Kansas on Thursday, August 22nd. The 2019 UAS...
by admin | Aug 9, 2019 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems and the Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) at Oklahoma State University (OSU) have been awarded a state research and development grant to help integrate radar into Vigilant’s drone safety product, FlightHorizon. FlightHorizon...
by admin | Jun 30, 2019 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, Industry News, Media
For the second year in a row, Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been selected by Drone Industry Insights (DII) as one of the “most relevant” companies operating in the drone technology market in their recently published 2019 Drone Market Environment Map. Vigilant is...
by admin | May 6, 2019 | Events, Products, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace was a sponsor and presenter at the recent DronePort Network Seminar “Unlocking the Potential in Your Community” produced by the DronePort Network as an AUVSI 2019 XPONENTIAL co-located event in Chicago, IL on April 29th. Vigilant...
by admin | Apr 19, 2019 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson is making a presentation titled “The Central Role of Flight Safety Systems and Airspace Management in Droneport Development,” at the upcoming Droneport Seminar on Monday, April 29. The Droneport...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems will be joining unmanned aircraft systems industry professionals at the upcoming 2nd Annual Emerging Aviation Technology Conference hosted by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma this Thursday, April 18th in Durant, Oklahoma. The Emerging Aviation...
by admin | Apr 15, 2019 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has announced that it has joined the new DronePort Network as a Founding Member. The new organization is focused on bringing resources together from communities, companies, entrepreneurs, and national sources to support the development of...
by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is happy to share our 2018 Year-in-Review video, below. The company had an outstanding year with numerous milestones for our products, programs and flights. We are especially excited about the new beyond visual line-of-sight flights, NASA...
by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Company News, Products
Vigilant Aerospace is pleased to announce that we have obtained a Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) determination from the US Department of State for our FlightHorizon GCS product. This new determination, CJ 0370-18, allows the export of FlightHorizon GCS without the need...
by admin | Jan 21, 2019 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace recently participated in the first unmanned aircraft flight under a new FAA certificate of authorization (COA) allowing for beyond visual line-of-sight flights within a 13-mile corridor based out of the Oklahoma State University Unmanned Aircraft...
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...
by admin | Dec 29, 2017 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, Media, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace is delighted to share a quick video about what the team accomplished in 2017, including a tremendous amount of product development, flight programs, and industry engagement. Check out our End-of-Year 2017 Review video (2 min. 30 sec.) for a look...
by admin | Dec 27, 2017 | Events, Industry News, Products
NASA has published a new research paper on the beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight testing and nearly 350 flight encounters carried out on the FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and situational awareness system. The research paper, titled “µADS-B Detect and Avoid...
by admin | Dec 13, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace has announced a new investment from Kluz Ventures, through its commercial drone and robotics fund The Flying Object. The Flying Object (TFO) makes investments into US and international unmanned aerial systems technology and service companies that...
by admin | Dec 12, 2017 | Awards & Recognition, Events
In November 2017, Vigilant Aerospace had the pleasure of making a joint presentation with NASA Armstrong at the R&D 100 Conference in Orlando, Florida. The presentation, titled “Commercializing Federal R&D: Secrets to Startup Success,” discussed...
by admin | Dec 11, 2017 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace has registered as an Interested Party in the FAA’s new UAS Integration Pilot Program (UIPP), which is designed to allow state, local and tribal governments in the US to create Innovation Zones in which advanced UAS operations can be carried out and...
by admin | Nov 8, 2017 | Industry News
The FAA’s new UAS Integration Pilot Program (UIPP) is the biggest new regulatory initiative and industry opportunity in the unmanned aircraft industry since the publication of Part 107 in August 2016. The UIPP is a newly announced initiative by the FAA to...
by admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Company News, Media
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli Epperson, recently spoke to the Oklahoma Venture Forum (OVF) about the company, its product and the future of unmanned aircraft in the US. Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizon product helps to integrate unmanned aircraft into the...
by admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace has released its Q4 2017 edition of the Beyond Line-of-Sight Drone List and this latest edition is available for download now. The list was initially announced and first published earlier this year and contains a complete list of all commercial...
by admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Media
Digital Circuit published an article on Sept. 23rd about DJI’s new white paper, Unmanned Traffic Self-Management: How Smart Drones Will Find Their Own Way In the Airspace, which proposes simplified unmanned traffic management by means of radio transponders. The...
