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...
by admin | Sep 15, 2017 | Products
Based on recent flight testing at NASA, work with manned aircraft safety training providers, and long-range offshore public safety patrol flights, Vigilant Aerospace has added several new features to FlightHorizon. These include a broader range of transponder...
by admin | Sep 11, 2017 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace was recently featured in a Crunchbase News article “How Tech Helped Kick Ass During Hurricane Harvey” by Mary Ann Azevedo about how technology, including drones, was used to help in response efforts after Hurricane Harvey impacted the...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace is excited to announce that FlightHorizon is being used in a major research project conducted by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in conjunction with NASA Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida to measure the effect...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | Media
Ricardo Arteaga, NASA Research Engineer and inventor of the patented NASA technology behind our FlightHorizon product, was recently interviewed for the “Innovator Spotlight” series published by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. During the interview,...
by admin | Aug 10, 2017 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace’s product, FlightHorizon, has been named a 2017 R&D 100 Award Finalist. The Finalists were announced yesterday, August 9th, by R&D Magazine. Read the full story here. The R&D 100 Awards are presented annually to the top 100...
by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Events, Industry News, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson will be making a presentation titled “Safety Framework for Integration of UAS into the National Airspace” on August 8th at the UAS Business & Contracting Symposium organized by the Oklahoma Metro Technology...
by admin | Aug 2, 2017 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson will be presenting “Safer UAS Flights With NASA Tech” at the upcoming UAS Summit & Expo 2017 on Wednesday, August 23, 3:30 PM. The event is the 11th annual UAS Summit and Expo and one of the most established and...
by admin | Aug 2, 2017 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson is participating in a panel discussion on “End Users of UAS: Which Industries are benefiting from the technology?” at the upcoming US Small Business Administration’s UAS Cluster Initiative 2017 UAS Tech Forum...
by admin | Jul 10, 2017 | Company News, Products
Vigilant Aerospace recently completed live demonstration flights of FlightHorizon GCS using two unmanned aircraft to demonstrate and document the full safety lifecycle of detect, track, predict, avoid and recovery functions during multiple flight encounters. The...
by admin | Jul 6, 2017 | Products
Vigilant Aerospace has published a new FlightHorizon Buying Guide to help you through the process of selecting the right product for your operational needs. Whether you are flying a single small UAS for patrols within 20 miles of your ground control station, or are...
by admin | Jul 6, 2017 | Products
Vigilant Aerospace is announcing our new list of FlightHorizon™ products for both ground-based and on-board detect-and avoid, and our new integration and consulting services: FlightHorizon GCS™ – Uses an aviation transponder and, when available,...
by admin | Jul 5, 2017 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson is discussing “The Future of Drone Sense-and-Avoid Technology” as a panelist at the upcoming 2017 InterDrone International Drone Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas in September. Panel Session: The Future of...
by admin | Jul 1, 2017 | Industry News
Recently, the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD), operated for the FAA by the MITRE Corporation, published a new research study about the use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) systems by small, low-altitude unmanned aircraft...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace announced today that the company has closed an investment from the Lubbock Angel Network out of Lubbock, Texas. Here is the full text of the announcement: Press Announcement – VAS Closes Investment Round with Lubbock Angel Network – June...
by admin | Jun 20, 2017 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson will be a panelist for the US Small Business Administration’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Cluster Initiative on the upcoming webinar on “The ABCs of Developing a Quick Pitch to Attract Investment Capital and...
by admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson will be presenting on current capabilities and safety technology for industrial unmanned aircraft to executives in transit, shipping and the energy industry at the upcoming Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) meeting on July...
by admin | May 9, 2017 | Products
We have updated our “Explainer Video” about what FlightHorizon does for unmanned, commercial aircraft operators. If you’ve been looking for the short story on what we’re doing, here’s your chance to find out, fast! Click the...
by admin | May 2, 2017 | Products
Vigilant Aerospace has added new functions and made significant improvements to FlightHorizon using the flight data collected during our BVLOS flight testing at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in December 2016. Watch the 90-second video about our recent beyond...
by admin | Apr 28, 2017 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace, Cimarron Capital Partners, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (NASA AFRC) were recently honored on April 26, 2017 at the annual Meeting of the National Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) with...
by admin | Apr 27, 2017 | Industry News
An article released today by The Future of Everything as part of their “Ask the Thought Leaders ” blog series featured comments from Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson and other experts in the unmanned aircraft industry. In light of the increasing...
by admin | Apr 10, 2017 | Industry News
The latest report on drone sightings and near-misses with commercial manned aircraft in the U.K. have highlighted an increasing need for drones to be more visible to manned aircraft and to be able to detect-and-avoid other aircraft. The U.K. Airprox Board (UKAB)...
by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace is presenting at the upcoming AUVSI Xponential 2017, the largest trade show for unmanned systems, on the morning of May 11th at the Solutions Theater in the XPO Hall. FlightHorizon: Fully Autonomous Detect-and-Avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems...
by admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Media
Colin Snow, the “Drone Analyst,” who publishes research on unmanned aircraft systems at SkyLogic Research and is a top-billed columnist at DroneLife, published an analysis on March 10th in DroneLife about AirMap’s new proposal to issue digital...
by admin | Mar 27, 2017 | Industry News
The FAA released a new Aerospace Forecast for 2017-2037 on March 21 that includes both some startling 2016 numbers and a forecast for continued rapid growth of the commercial UAS industry in coming years. In addition, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta has delivered...
by admin | Mar 24, 2017 | Industry News
Wired Magazine recently published a fun video about the researchers and pilots of the awesome NASA Subscale Flight Research Lab at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center: Flight Lab: Inside the Model Plane Shop Where NASA Flies the Future This is the same team that...
by admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace Systems was recently featured in an article by Oklahoma Magazine (OKMag.com) on commercial drone integration into the U.S. national airspace. From the article: “Our system provides the capability to detect-and-avoid aircraft and gives unmanned...
by admin | Feb 23, 2017 | Industry News, Regulation
The FAA has announced the release of their 2016 drone sightings incident report, covering February through September, 2016: FAA Releases Updated Drone Sighting Reports The prior report, released in 2016, covered the same period in 2015. Comparing the two periods, the...
by admin | Feb 9, 2017 | Company News, Products
We’ve published a new, short video (90 seconds) about the beyond line-of-sight, detect-and-avoid flight tests of FlightHorizon conducted in December at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Click “play” below to start the...
by admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace, Cimarron Capital Partners, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (NASA AFRC) are being honored by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) with the nation’s highest technology transfer...
by admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace recently announced the successful completion of beyond visual line-of-sight testing of the latest version of the FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid system for unmanned aircraft. The tests were conducted in NASA Armstrong’s controlled airspace by...
by admin | Jan 27, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace has completed successful beyond line-of-sight flight testing of its new FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid, airspace management system for unmanned aircraft at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The tests demonstrated the...
by admin | Jan 13, 2017 | Media
DroneLife.com, a leading commercial drone news source, covered the release of Vigilant Aerospace’s Beyond Line-of-Sight Drone List. Excerpt from the article: “We believe that the future of unmanned aircraft in the US has arrived, and only a few obstacles remain...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace officially announced the release of a drone list featuring commercial drones available in the US capable of beyond line-of-sight operations. Here is the full text of the announcement: Press Announcement – Vigilant Aerospace Releases List of...
by admin | Jan 5, 2017 | Company News, Industry News
The Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Test Site in North Dakota, an official test site for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence program (ASSURE), is the first UAS test site to be granted...
by admin | Dec 30, 2016 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace has been selected to present at the upcoming Rice Alliance Information Technology and Web Venture Forum on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The event is organized by the Rice Alliance, a nationally-recognized...
by admin | Dec 15, 2016 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has become a testing and research partner in the FAA’s ASSURE program for unmanned aircraft safety, including the development and testing of detect-and-avoid and beyond visual line-of-sight flight systems. This announcement comes after...
by admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace announced today that the company has closed an investment from TONIC Fund of Fayettville, Arkansas. Here is the full text of the announcement: Press Announcement – VAS Closes Investment Round with TONIC Fund – December 12 2016 [PDF]...
by admin | Dec 2, 2016 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace announced today that it has partnered with the newly announced TechHire Initiative in Oklahoma City to support the expansion of the technology industry and give more people access to high-paying tech jobs. Here is the full text of the...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | Events
Our CEO and co-founder, Kraettli L. Epperson, recently spoke at the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Convention 2016 on the panel titled “The Future of Industry Innovation to Enable UTM.” The panel featured several leaders in the unmanned aircraft...
by admin | Nov 21, 2016 | Company News, Products
As a part of ongoing research and development, Vigilant Aerospace completed an informal test flight on Friday, Nov. 18 at Wiley Post airport in Oklahoma City. This flight was primarily a shakedown test of several recent improvements to FlightHorizon in advance of our...
by admin | Nov 18, 2016 | Company News
We have just opened our new Certified Education Partner Program. To further promote a safe national airspace, we are now seeking to partner with professional education organizations to provide training in flight safety, aircraft management and maintenance, manned and...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, will be a featured panelist at the upcoming Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) 2016 conference in Syracuse, NY on November 9, 2016. The conference, in its second year, is organized by NASA and the unmanned aviation industry...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Company News
The Beta Test Program has now expired, but you can contact us to sign up for a subscription or coordinate a demonstration here. Vigilant Aerospace Systems is excited to announce the FlightHorizon Beta Test Program is open and accepting applications. Free, Early...
by admin | Oct 19, 2016 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace is presenting at the upcoming 11th Annual INNOTECH Oklahoma Conference Beta Summit sponsored by InterWorks, Inc. on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 in Oklahoma City. INNOTECH is Oklahoma’s largest business and technology expo featuring Keynote...
by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to further develop, test, and integrate the NASA patented Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) technology with transponders available on the market. Under the agreement, Vigilant...
by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Events
On Thursday, October 13th, Vigilant Aerospace will join over 600 innovation experts, technologist, and industry executives at the Innovation Conference & Showcase (IC&S) in Houston, Texas. The event features high-tech startups in information technology,...
by admin | Sep 20, 2016 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, and Cimarron Capital Partners were honored with the award for Outstanding Commercialization Success by the Federal Labs Consortium (FLC) Far West Region at an awards ceremony in September 2016 for the...
by admin | Sep 15, 2016 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, is participating in a panel discussion at the upcoming Technology Collaboration Center Remote Sensing Technologies event at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on October 12, 2016. The event, sponsored...
by admin | Sep 14, 2016 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, is participating in the Venture Pitch segment of the premier Accelerate the Heartland event in Wichita, Kansas on October 5th, 2016. The event features Keynote Speaker Victor W. Hwang, Vice President of...
by admin | Sep 2, 2016 | Company News
We are very happy to announce our new Certified Reseller Partner Program preview. The Certified Reseller Partner Program is designed to provide trusted technical advisers who agree to sell our FlightHorizon product to their customers with an easy way to receive high...
by admin | Aug 31, 2016 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli Epperson, is joining Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and NASA as a speaker at the upcoming UAS TechForum to be hosted in Oklahoma City next week. The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Forum is a full day seminar featuring presentations from...
by admin | Aug 29, 2016 | Company News
Here are some comments on the new FAA Part 107 UAS Aeronautical Knowledge Test by our CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, who took and passed the exam this morning in the first few hours that the exam was available and as one of the first test takers in the US. Test Prep...
by admin | Aug 24, 2016 | Media
The technology behond Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizon product, based on NASA’s patent #9,405,005, has been named one of “four new ground-breaking technologies which will take the air navigation to the next step” by GreyB, a top international patent services firm....
by admin | Aug 22, 2016 | Industry News
The August 29th initial testing date is near and we’ve put together our own list of Part 107 UAS Pilot Certification test prep study resources. UAS Pilot Study Resources Page In the interest of supporting UAS safety and helping drone pilots prepare for the...
by admin | Aug 15, 2016 | Company News, Events
Drone Beyond-Line-of-Sight Demand Drives Growth Opportunity for Detect-and-Avoid Avionics At the recent Mindset and Methods of Open Innovation seminar on August 11, 2016, our CEO Mr. Kraettli Epperson, shared the origin story of Vigilant Aerospace Systems from a...
by admin | Aug 8, 2016 | Media
On August 5, 2016, Unmanned Systems Technology (UST) News reported our new partnership with NASA on development and testing of the new UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system. Excerpt from the article: The partnership allows the company to integrate UTM flight plans and...
by admin | Aug 3, 2016 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace announced today that it has partnered with the NASA Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) research and development program to help in the development of drone management systems for low-altitude flight operations. Here is the full text of the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace celebrated the publication of NASA’s Patent #9,405,005 today! Vigilant Aerospace is the exclusive licensee of this patent, which includes technologies for: Integration of aircraft transponders onto unmanned aircraft Signal processing and...
by admin | Jul 28, 2016 | Industry News
Commercial Drone Milestone Achieved 7-Eleven recently took to the air by drone to deliver a chicken sandwich, hot coffee, donuts, some candy, and Slurpees to a family in Reno. This delivery marked the first legal U.S. commercial delivery by drone of items ordered from...
by admin | Jul 25, 2016 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has announced two new products in the FlightHorizon™ family, including our detect-and-avoid software for both manned and unmanned aircraft. FlightHorizon GA™ NASA Developed Avionics for ADS-B In/Out, Detect-and-Avoid Flight...
by admin | Jul 19, 2016 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, is presenting a workshop at the upcoming half-day seminar from 2:00 to 3:00 PM, on the Open Innovation process. The workshop will cover the “Integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) into National...
by admin | Jul 6, 2016 | Industry News
CNN recently reported on the collision tests being done to evaluate if airliners can withstand an aerial collision with a standard commercial drone. The FAA release of the new Part 107 drone regulations has turned an event larger spotlight on drone safety. Headed by...
by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace is presenting on the commercialization of NASA technology in a panel session at the upcoming UAS Tech Forum in Oklahoma City organized by the UAS Cluster Initiative. CEO Kraettli Epperson will speak on a panel about the commercialization process...
by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems will be participating in the upcoming AUVSI Startup Connection, a one day event on Monday, July 18, 2016 for investors, startups, entrepreneurs, OEMs, & vendors. We will have a table and Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli L. Epperson will...
by admin | Jun 21, 2016 | Careers, Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is currently hiring a Java developer. This is a contract-to-hire position for a rock star developer who wants to make a national impact at the frontiers of robotics, drones, automation and flight safety. Java Developer Job Description:...
by admin | Jun 21, 2016 | Industry News
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that the long awaited Part 107 Drone Regulations will take effect in late August 2016 affecting commercial drone operators. The new operational rules allow businesses to fly drones in the U.S. as long as they...
by admin | Jun 15, 2016 | Industry News, Products
Research and Product Testing of NASA ADS-B Detect-and-Avoid Algorithm Lead by Ricardo Arteaga, CxP Orion Flight Systems Engineer at NASA Dryden, the research team based out of the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California recently published a...
by admin | May 16, 2016 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace was featured in this week’s frontpage article in DroneLife magazine about the top three states in the US for the drone industry. The article, The Top 3 Drone Friendly States May Surprise You, by Miriam McNabb, included interviews and brief...
by admin | May 1, 2016 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace’s recent licensing of NASA’s patented sense-and-avoid technologies for unmanned aircraft was aided by several NASA subcontractors who serve the agency in the capacity of tech-transfer and subject-matter experts. One of these companies,...
by admin | May 1, 2016 | Events
Integration of UAS into National Airspace: Detect and Avoid (DAA) Solutions for Beyond Visual-Line-of-Sight Vigilant Aerospace Systems will be presenting at this week’s AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2016 conference in New Orleans.The title of the presentation is...
by admin | Mar 17, 2016 | Industry News
Here and Now, a live radio production of NPR and WBUR Boston, sat down last week with FAA Administrator Michael Huerta to discuss the recent bills and regulations proposed for unmanned aircrafts in the national airspace. A Few Highlights from the Interview with FAA...
by admin | Mar 13, 2016 | Media
The Oklahoman has published a feature story in the Business Section on the launch of Vigilant Aerospace Systems in Oklahoma City. From the story: Aerospace startup licenses crash-prevention technology from NASA “One of the most exciting things that we are doing...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Media
IDST: International Defence, Security and Technology, published a detailed report on March 7, 2016 regarding the current state of sense and avoid technologies for unmanned aircraft flight automation, including review of Vigilant Aerospace’s recent licensing of...
by admin | Mar 5, 2016 | Media
In a March 1, 2016 article on integration of commercial unmanned aircraft into the US national airspace, Aviation International News, a leading industry publication, has offered this analysis of the FAA’s current strategy: Excerpt from the article: As the FAA...
by admin | Mar 5, 2016 | Media
The announcement of our company launch and the licensing agreement with NASA have been widely reported in the media over the last week: NASA Licenses New Communication Technology for Unmanned Aircraft – SpaceRef – Feb. 26, 2016 NASA has signed a license...
by admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Media
The Journal Record published a feature story about the launch of Vigilant Aerospace on March 1, 2016. From the story: Vigilant Aerospace Systems Inc. launched this week with a new avionics platform that works with NASA drone technology to make air traffic safer, Chief...
by admin | Feb 26, 2016 | Company News
We are delighted to announce the official launch of Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. Here is our public announcement of the launch: Press Announcement – VAS Launches – February 26 2016 [PDF] Here is the full text of the announcement: Vigilant Aerospace...
by admin | Feb 25, 2016 | Company News
NASA has announced the licensing of its new traffic awareness and airspace management technology to Vigilant Aerospace Systems: NASA Press Release – NASA Licenses Unmanned Communications Tech [PDF] Here is the announcement on the NASA Armstrong Flight Research...
by admin | Feb 12, 2016 | Company News
Accompanying our licensing agreement with NASA, we also held a licensing ceremony at Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California on February 8, 2016. As a part of the ceremony, our CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, shared some remarks on behalf of Vigilant...
