Vigilant Aerospace Uses FlightHorizon to Monitor Airspace for North Dakota UAS IPP Flight-Over-People with FAA Observation
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. has successfully participated in a ground-breaking unmanned aircraft flight that helps to pave the way for routine flights over people, a major milestone in the development of commercial drone regulations and the use of unmanned...
North Dakota IPP Flights Over FargoDome Tailgate to Help Build Safety Case for Flights Over People
As a member of the North Dakota Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) team, Vigilant Aerospace Systems will provide airspace monitoring and situational awareness for the upcoming “flights-over-people” operations to occur on Saturday, Sept....
NASA Uses FlightHorizonX to Track Experimental Transponder for Supersonic Flights, New FAA Standards
Vigilant Aerospace Systems' special supersonic version of its airspace management system, FlightHorizonX, is currently being used by NASA in a series of flight tests to validate a new supersonic transponder and to explore sonic boom mitigation as part of a national...
Droneport Network Holds First Meeting, Discusses Overcoming Common Obstacles to Launching New Programs
Vigilant Aerospace presented a seminar on overcoming obstacles to launching a droneport at the inaugural meeting of the new Droneport Network on Sept. 12, 2018. The meeting was a part of the UAS Tech Forum 2018, the flagship event of the US Small Business...
Vigilant Aerospace Presenting FlightHorizon Airspace Management for Integration Pilot Program Operations at Alaska “North to the Future” Event
Vigilant Aerospace Systems' Integration Pilot Program (IPP) partners from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are launching their IPP operations with announcements on regulatory progress and presentations from IPP partners at the annual Alaska UAS Interest Group's...
Alaska IPP Team to Focus on Building Safety Case for 24/7 Pipeline Monitoring and Long-Range Surveying
Vigilant Aerospace has partnered with the Alaska Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) team, led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, to provide real-time situational awareness, airspace safety and detect-and-avoid services to the team using...
InterDrone 2018, Insights and Event Review
Vigilant Aerospace's CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, served on two panels during InterDrone 2018. Our discussion on the panel, “The Future of Chips and Sensors Powering Next-Gen Drones,” on September 5, 2018, included a wide-ranging discussion of how we incorporate new...
Video: “New Models for Integration of UAS Into the NAS: Airspace Management as a Service” – a 2018 UAS Summit & Expo Presentation
Vigilant Aerospace was a sponsor and presenter at the recent 2018 UAS Summit & Expo produced by UAS Magazine and held in Grand Forks, ND this past week. Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, presented "New Models for Integration of Unmanned Aircraft...
UAS Summit & Expo 2018, Conference Review
It was an honor to be invited to speak on the 2018 UAS Summit & Expo in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli Epperson took the stage during the “UAS Service Suppliers: The Models that Generate Real Revenue” session on day two of the...
“Airspace Safety: Managing the Systems that Ensure Flight Safety in DronePort Environments,” Vigilant Aerospace Presenting at Inaugural Meeting of DronePort Network
Vigilant Aerospace will be the featured presenter at the inaugural meeting of the new DronePort Network, to be held at 2PM on Wednesday, September 12 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The DronePort Network is a new US trade organization designed to aid individuals and groups...
ACM Magazine Article “Here Come the Drones” Quotes Vigilant Aerospace CEO: Hundreds of Autonomous Drones Will Be Managed from Central Command Centers
What is the future of unmanned aircraft in the US and how can we move forward? These are the questions that an article in Communications, the magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recently asked our CEO while profiling the Federal Aviation...
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...