Vigilant Aerospace Appoints Zach Peterson as New Business Development Manager
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Presenting Recent Real-World BVLOS Unmanned Aircraft Flight Testing at UAS Summit & Expo
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Participating in XPONENTIAL 2020 Roundtable Discussion: “Oklahoma’s Role Influencing UAS Policy”
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 roundtable panel session...
Vigilant Aerospace and Oklahoma State University To Present Panel On Using Droneports to Develop New Unmanned Aircraft Technology
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems Recognized by Tech Tribune as One of Oklahoma City’s Best Tech Startups of 2021
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 flagship series released...
Vigilant Aerospace Presenting on 18-mile Autonomous Flight with Oklahoma State Univ. Utilizing FlightHorizon at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2020 Virtual Event
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 Oklahoma State...
Vigilant Aerospace Joins the 2020 UAS Tech Forum to Educate on Remote ID, UTM and Careers in Unmanned Aircraft Systems
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Signs New NASA Patent License Adding Coverage for Radar Use in Detect-and-Avoid and Unmanned Traffic Management for Drones
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 family of...
Vigilant Aerospace Co-Authors Paper on Unmanned Traffic Management with Oklahoma State University Researchers for 2020 AIAA AVIATION Forum
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 accepted for...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems Joins 2020 UAS Tech Forum Event Steering Committee, Event Date and Venue Announced
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 region's most...
New Video: Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizon Detect-and-Avoid System Used to Track Pandemic Response Test Flight
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...
Video: COVID Operations – How drone companies are responding to help stop the Coronavirus pandemic
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 stop the...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Joining a Panel of Speakers Discussing Drone Pandemic Response in a UAS Cluster Initiative Webinar
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 Kansas, the...
Vigilant Aerospace Uses Detect-and-Avoid System for Pandemic Response Drone Test Flight with Oklahoma State University and MaxQ
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 April...
Vigilant Aerospace Partners with Oklahoma State University in NASA Research Project on Weather Hazards and Drone Safety
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 Aerospace's...
Vigilant Aerospace Expands in North Dakota, Launches Hiring Initiative for Developers, Managers
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 Aerospace is a...
The Tech Tribune Features Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO in their Profile of a Founder Series
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 founders of tech...
Vigilant Aerospace Awarded FAA R&D Contract to Conduct Detect-and-Avoid Tests at Alaska UAS Test Site
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...
Vigilant Aerospace’s Blog Named One of the Top Aerospace Websites to Follow in 2020
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 blogs and 425...
The Tech Tribune Names Vigilant Aerospace as One of 2020 Best Tech Startups in Oklahoma
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Discusses Future of Commercial Drones and Industry Opportunities with The Oklahoman
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 from the...
Vigilant Aerospace Exhibiting, Participating in Oklahoma City Innovation District Autonomous Systems Symposium
*** 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...
Vigilant Aerospace Tests Radar, Multi-Sensor Data Fusion and Air Traffic Alerting with FlightHorizon in Latest Drone Flight with OSU
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Signs New NASA Agreement Adding Military Use to Detect-and-Avoid System for Drones
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ 2019 Company Highlights
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...