Vigilant Aerospace Looks Forward to Release of FlightHorizon 2.0, New Capabilities
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,...
Vigilant Aerospace Presenting “New Models for Integration of UAS into the NAS” and Exhibiting at UAS Summit & Expo 2018
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 Summit is the unmanned...
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Discussing Future of Drone Sensors, Chips and Artificial Intelligence for BVLOS Flights at InterDrone 2018
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 America's...
Vigilant Aerospace Moderating Panel on Cybersecurity, Sponsoring, and Exhibiting at UAS Tech Forum 2018, September 12-13
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 Cluster...
Vigilant Aerospace Speaking on Upcoming FLC Panel on Successful Federal Technology Transfer
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 hosted in...
North Dakota IPP Team Will Focus on Flights at Night, Over People and Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight
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...
New NASA Report Highlights Aerospace Projects Utilizing FlightHorizon
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 of...
New Drone Reports Indicate Continued Interest in Commercial Drones and Industry Growth
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 seeing the some of the...
Vigilant Aerospace Joins ASTM Unmanned Aircraft Systems Committee
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...
Video: How to Manage Integrated Airspaces: Real World Experiences Flying with NASA – a Drone Focus 2018 Presentation
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 of...
A Look at the UAS Integration Pilot Program – What’s Next?
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 week that...
New BVLOS Flights Anticipated as Vigilant Aerospace Teams Up with Two UAS Integration Pilot Program Participants
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...
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Presentation at XPONENTIAL 2018: Emerging UAS Tech to Enable Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight and Safe Airspace Integration
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 XPONENTIAL...
Vigilant Aerospace to Provide FlightHorizon for Airspace Safety to Multiple FAA Unmanned Aircraft Integration Pilot Programs
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Adds Business Development Manager, National Sales Office in North Dakota
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...
New Global UAV Sense-and-Avoid Systems Report Names Vigilant Aerospace a Key Vendor and Forecasts Market at $3.6Bn by 2022
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 Market,...
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Selected as a Featured Speaker at 2018 Drone Focus
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 31st....
Vigilant Aerospace Developing FlightHorizonX for Tracking and Safety of Supersonic Aircraft and Spacecraft
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 Center. The...
FlightHorizon Compatible Hardware List Now Available
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Joining the Oklahoma Aerospace Industry at “AERO Oklahoma Advocacy Day” at State Capitol
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 the...
Upcoming Presentation at XPONENTIAL 2018: Emerging Technology and Solutions for UAS Airspace Integration and Active Detect-and-Avoid to Enable BVLOS Flight
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 CEO and...
FlightHorizon Selected by NASA Commercial Supersonic Technology Program 2018-2019 for Airspace Situational Awareness, Flight Logging
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...
New FAA UAS Forecast Shows Big Growth in Commercial sUAS, Suggests Need for 300K More Remote Pilots
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...
Latest UAS Sightings Report from the FAA Indicates Dramatic Increase in Encounters
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...
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Quoted in Crunchbase Article: “21 Early-Stage Drone Companies To Watch Out For (Literally)”
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 providing...