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...
FlightHorizon Used by NASA and DLR in Flights over Germany for Airspace Safety, Flight Logging and Real-Time Flight Formation
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 National...
Drone Industry Insights Lists Vigilant Aerospace as a Company that will “Disrupt” in 2018
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 one of the...
Vigilant Aerospace End-of-Year 2017 Review Video (2 min. 30 sec)
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...
NASA Publishes Paper at the 2018 AIAA SciTech Forum on BVLOS Flight Testing of FlightHorizon Detect-and-Avoid System
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...
Vigilant Aerospace Closes Investment Round with Venture Capital Fund The Flying Object and Kluz Ventures
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...
R&D 100 Conference Presentation Video Available – “Commercializing Federal R&D: Secrets to Startup Success”
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 the process,...
Vigilant Aerospace Registers to Provide FlightHorizon to FAA’s UAS Integration Pilot Program (UIPP) Applicants
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...
Exploring the FAA’s New UAS Integration Pilot Program
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 collaborate...
Oklahoma Venture Forum: Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Embraces Disruption
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...
Beyond Line-of-Sight List Updated with New Long Range Commercial Drones
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...
Digital Circuit Reviews the New DJI Proposal on Traffic Management and References FlightHorizon
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...