by admin | May 11, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, the leading developer of multi-sensor airspace management and collision avoidance software for drones and advanced air mobility, has been awarded a $500,000 grant as part of a nearly $1 million project to work with the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) at Oklahoma State University to develop a distributed version of its detect-and-avoid system.
by admin | May 10, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, the leading developer of multi-sensor airspace management and collision avoidance software for drones and advanced air mobility, has been awarded a $500,000 grant as part of a nearly $1 million project to work with the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) at Oklahoma State University to develop a distributed version of its detect-and-avoid system.
by admin | May 10, 2024 | Events
At XPONENTIAL 2024, Kraettli Epperson, CEO and co-founder of Vigilant Aerospace Systems, gave a presentation on the integration of weather and wind hazard data into airspace management systems for safer drone and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) operations.
by admin | May 9, 2024 | Awards & Recognition, Client News, Company News, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace awarded OCAST grant to develop Distributed Airspace Management System.
Partners with Oklahoma State University to develop safe uncrewed aircraft traffic management capabilities.
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace, a developer of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones), has been announced as a strategic partner by DronePort Network to provide airspace management (ASM), detect-and-avoid (DAA),...
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace, a leading developer of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones), has been announced as a strategic partner by DronePort Network to provide Airspace Management (ASM),...
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Media
Droneport Network, a system integration and infrastructure developer for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), announced this week a collaboration with Vigilant Aerospace, a builder of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for drones, reports a press release....
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace, a leading developer of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones), has been announced as a strategic partner by DronePort Network to provide Airspace Management (ASM), Detect-and-Avoid...
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Media
DronePort Network, a leading innovator in detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones), announced Vigilant Aerospace as a key strategic partner. This partnership aims to integrate Airspace...
by admin | Apr 29, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace has been announced as a strategic partner by DronePort Network to provide Airspace Management, Detect-and-Avoid, and Unmanned Traffic Management for future drone port projects throughout the United States. Read the full article...
by admin | Apr 24, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace, a leading developer of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones), has announced as a strategic partner by DronePort Network to provide Airspace Management (ASM), Detect-and-Avoid...
by admin | Apr 24, 2024 | Media
Aerospace infrastructure development company DronePort Network is joining forces with airspace management specialist Vigilant Aerospace for advanced situational awareness at future drone port projects throughout the US. Read the article...
by admin | Apr 23, 2024 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace, a developer of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems, has been announced as a strategic partner by DronePort Network to provide Airspace Management (ASM), Detect-and-Avoid (DAA), and Unmanned...
by admin | Apr 9, 2024 | Client News, Company News
Advanced air traffic surveillance, detect-and-avoid and uncrewed traffic management required for growth of autonomous flight Oklahoma City, OK (April 9, 2024) – Vigilant Aerospace, a leading developer of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for...
by admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Events, Featured, Products
Vigilant Aerospace demonstrated its new FlightHorizon DEFENDER counter-UAS system in early February as the first featured system for the Oklahoma Army National Guard’s new Counter-UAS training center located at Camp Gruber near Braggs, Oklahoma. The demonstration...
by admin | Dec 31, 2023 | Company News
As we reach the end of 2023, Vigilant Aerospace is taking a moment to reflect on what has been a historic period for the autonomous systems industry and a momentous year for the company. After waiting several years for signs that the UAS and AAM industry were reaching...
by admin | Nov 15, 2023 | Presentation
November 13, 2023 – As part of a legislative study session on the Innovation Economy, focusing on advanced air mobility (AAM), Kraettli Epperson, CEO of Vigilant Aerospace, presented the opportunities AAM brings to Oklahoma, particularly in uncrewed aircraft...
by admin | Oct 10, 2023 | Company News, Featured, Products, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc., a provider of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid safety systems for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility (AAM), announced that it has been awarded a contract by the US Air Force to develop a detect-and-avoid system for...
by admin | Oct 6, 2023 | Company News, Events, Media
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, was featured in the recent UAS Magazine podcast ahead of his upcoming appearance at the upcoming UAS Summit & Expo in Grand Forks, ND on October 10. He will be speaking at 10:40am discussing the future of UAS collision...
by admin | Aug 31, 2023 | Events, Industry News
Our CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, recently had the privilege of attending the FAA’s Drone Symposium and AAM Summit and reports that the future of unmanned systems looks brighter than ever. Hosted by the FAA in collaboration with AUVSI, this event combined the...
by admin | Aug 31, 2023 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, Featured
Vigilant Aerospace is delighted to share that we have been named Aerospace Innovator of the Year 2023 by 405 Business Magazine for the State of Oklahoma. The announcement was made in an article in the August 1, 2023 edition and includes a full interview with the...
by admin | Dec 5, 2022 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, the leading provider of multi-sensor, standards-compliant detect-and-avoid (DAA) and airspace management systems for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) hosted a live Demonstration Day on December 2, 2022 at Oklahoma State University’s...
by admin | Oct 24, 2022 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli Epperson, will be speaking at the upcoming Aerospace Investment & Engagement event hosted by the Houston Angel Network (HAN) on October 27, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Vigilant Aerospace has been invited to present in the event’s...
by admin | Oct 11, 2022 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli L. Epperson to speak about Advanced Air Mobility at the 2022 Oklahoma Aerospace Forum on Tuesday, November 1, 2022. The presentation, to be featured in the afternoon breakout sessions, will be a panel session on “The Future of UAS...
by admin | Sep 26, 2022 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli L. Epperson will be industry experts at the upcoming 2022 UAS Summit & Expo in Grand Forks, ND on Tuesday, October 4th in two different panel sessions. The first panel session begins at 1:30 PM CT, titled “Keeping the...
by admin | Sep 26, 2022 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Director of Business Development, Zach Peterson, will be speaking at the 2022 UAS Summit & Expo at 3:10 PM on Tuesday, October 4th. The presentation titled “FlightHorizon Multi-Sensor Detect-and-Avoid System” will be featured on the...
by admin | Sep 20, 2022 | Events, Industry News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli L. Epperson will be speaking at the upcoming Counter-UAS and Asymmetric Threat Symposium on Friday, Sept. 23 on a panel titled “C-UAS State and Federal Regulatory Concerns.” The conference is organized by the...
by admin | Sep 15, 2022 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Director of Business Development, Zach Peterson, will be discussing detect-and-avoid systems at the Business of Automated Mobility Forum at 12 noon, CST on Sept. 28. Peterson is joining Sagetech Business Development Director Rudy Johnson to launch...
by admin | Aug 23, 2022 | Events, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace will be presenting about FlightHorizon and demonstrating the airspace management system at the upcoming Autonomous Nation 2022 conference on August, 25 near Fargo, North Dakota. Autonomous Nation is a full-day conference bringing together...
by admin | Aug 11, 2022 | Events, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli L. Epperson will be making a presentation on integrating weather data into uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) safety and detect-and-avoid systems at the upcoming UAS Weather Tech Forum in Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 16-18, 2022....
by admin | Aug 2, 2022 | Company News, Products
SAN DIEGO (August 2, 2022) – Vigilant Aerospace announced on Tuesday that it has provided a demonstration FlightHorizon COMMANDER airspace management system to the US Air Force in support of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 exercise, currently going on in Hawaii...
by admin | Apr 18, 2022 | Company News, Industry News, Products, R&D
April 18, 2022, Indianapolis, IN — Pierce Aerospace announced a partnership with Vigilant Aerospace Systems today to integrate Pierce Aerospace’s Flight Portal Remote ID technologies into Vigilant’s FlightHorizon airspace management and flight safety products....
by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | Awards & Recognition, Company News
NASA has announced this week that the technology licensed to Vigilant Aerospace and used in the company’s FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and airspace management product has won NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year 2021 award. The winning technology was...
by admin | Mar 25, 2022 | Events, Products, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO recently made a 30-minute presentation on testing onboard automatic detect-and-avoid systems for unmanned aircraft at the 2022 SAE AeroTech Conference in Pasadena, California. Titled “Developing and Testing Fully Onboard Automatic...
by admin | Mar 2, 2022 | Company News, Industry News
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Cluster Initiative (UASCI) has recently launched a new Private Industry Advisory Council and appointed Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli L. Epperson and Dr. Jamey Jacob, Director of Oklahoma...
by admin | Mar 2, 2022 | Events, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli L. Epperson has been invited to join industry leaders as a speaker in the upcoming 2022 SAE AeroTech conference March 15-17 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. Epperson’s presentation titled...
by admin | Feb 8, 2022 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is joining aviation industry professionals at the 2022 Fly ND Conference March 6-8, 2022 at Delta Hotel in Fargo, ND. Fly ND is an annual conference produced by the North Dakota Aviation Association which brings industry leaders from North...
by admin | Dec 16, 2021 | Company News
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli L. Epperson has joined the new Tulsa Innovation Labs (TIL) Advanced Aerial Mobility (AAM) Advisory Council. TIL recently announced the new program and council focused on building a regional initiative for advanced aerial mobility (AAM)...
by admin | Nov 1, 2021 | Company News, Industry News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson recently presented a brief online presentation discussing our participation in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) University Leadership Initiative (ULI) WindMap project lead by Oklahoma State University....
by admin | Oct 5, 2021 | Company News, Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson has been invited to speak at the upcoming 2021 UAS Summit & Expo on October 13-14, 2021 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Epperson’s presentation, titled “Results from Real BVLOS Flights and Next Steps in...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Company News, Industry News, Media
Aviation Week, a leading industry publication, recently released an article covering the research and development work Vigilant Aerospace Systems and Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) have completed focusing on the live...
by admin | Aug 24, 2021 | Awards & Recognition, Company News
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been one of the “2022 Best Tech Startups in Oklahoma City” by The Tech Tribune. The “Best Tech Startups” series is the flagship annual feature released by The Tech Tribune in partnership with Crunchbase,...
by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Events
Are you developing a beyond visual line-of-sight unmanned aircraft system or program? Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO led AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL 2021 panel discussion on new technologies for detect-and-avoid systems during the virtual event in May 2021, which is available to...
by admin | Jul 19, 2021 | Events, Products
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson participated in an AUVSI presentation on “Enhancing Operations with Sensors and Other Instruments.” We are happy to share the video of the presentation and a full transcript, below. Please contact...
by admin | Jun 25, 2021 | Company News, Events, Products
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson recently presented at the 2021 AUVSI & SAE Business of Automated Mobility (BAM) Forum in a panel session titled “Developing & Testing a Real-World BVLOS Multi-Sensor DAA System for Unmanned Aircraft...
by admin | Jun 24, 2021 | Company News, Industry News, R&D
Vigilant Aerospace provided its FlightHorizon airspace management and detect-and-avoid system to support flight testing carried out by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program known as the...
by admin | Jun 22, 2021 | Company News, Industry News, Regulation
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, has been selected as one of 89 members nationwide of the new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) writing recommended rules to allow small uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or...
by admin | May 31, 2021 | Events
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson will be co-presenting a webinar on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 on “Enhancing Operations with Sensors and Other Instruments” for The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) with co-presenter...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Events
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
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
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 20, 2020 | Company News, Industry News, Media
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ research projects with Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) were recently featured in the annual OSU Research Matters magazine. mentioned in OSU Research Matters Magazine, the official magazine...
by admin | Nov 19, 2020 | Company News
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
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 17, 2020 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, Industry News
Business Development Director Zach Peterson Appointed Secretary of the AUVSI Great Plains Chapter Vigilant Aerospace is proud to announce the appointment of Zach Peterson, the company’s Director of Business Development, as the Vice President of the Great Plains...
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 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, 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
NASA launched the Quiet Supersonic Flights (QSF18) out of Galveston, Texas this week. The flights missions include up to eight flights per day with the flights occurring in the mornings and the afternoons over a two week period starting November 5. FlightHorizonX...
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...
