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...
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...
Vigilant Aerospace recently participated in UAS Integration Pilot Program unmanned aircraft flights over people at the Sept. 29, 2018 football tailgate at the FargoDome in Fargo, North Dakota. The flights were led by the North Dakota Department of Transportation and...
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...
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....
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ FlightHorizonX detect-and-avoid and airspace management system is actively being used in new round of supersonic flight tests conducted by NASA with the agency’s F/A-18 research aircraft. The Quiet Supersonic Flights 2018 series...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has joined the leadership team of the Great Plains chapter of the Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). This follows Vigilant Aerospace’s expansion into North Dakota and supports regional collaboration on safe,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vigilant Aerospace is excited to announce that FlightHorizon is being used in a major research project conducted by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in conjunction with NASA Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida to measure the effect...
Vigilant Aerospace’s product, FlightHorizon, has been named a 2017 R&D 100 Award Finalist. The Finalists were announced yesterday, August 9th, by R&D Magazine. Read the full story here. The R&D 100 Awards are presented annually to the top 100...
Vigilant Aerospace recently completed live demonstration flights of FlightHorizon GCS using two unmanned aircraft to demonstrate and document the full safety lifecycle of detect, track, predict, avoid and recovery functions during multiple flight encounters. The...
Vigilant Aerospace announced today that the company has closed an investment from the Lubbock Angel Network out of Lubbock, Texas. Here is the full text of the announcement: Press Announcement – VAS Closes Investment Round with Lubbock Angel Network – June...
We’ve published a new, short video (90 seconds) about the beyond line-of-sight, detect-and-avoid flight tests of FlightHorizon conducted in December at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Click “play” below to start the...
Vigilant Aerospace, Cimarron Capital Partners, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (NASA AFRC) are being honored by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) with the nation’s highest technology transfer...
Vigilant Aerospace has completed successful beyond line-of-sight flight testing of its new FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid, airspace management system for unmanned aircraft at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The tests demonstrated the...
Vigilant Aerospace officially announced the release of a drone list featuring commercial drones available in the US capable of beyond line-of-sight operations. Here is the full text of the announcement: Press Announcement – Vigilant Aerospace Releases List of...
The Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Test Site in North Dakota, an official test site for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence program (ASSURE), is the first UAS test site to be granted...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has become a testing and research partner in the FAA’s ASSURE program for unmanned aircraft safety, including the development and testing of detect-and-avoid and beyond visual line-of-sight flight systems. This announcement comes after...
Vigilant Aerospace announced today that the company has closed an investment from TONIC Fund of Fayettville, Arkansas. Here is the full text of the announcement: Press Announcement – VAS Closes Investment Round with TONIC Fund – December 12 2016 [PDF]...
Vigilant Aerospace announced today that it has partnered with the newly announced TechHire Initiative in Oklahoma City to support the expansion of the technology industry and give more people access to high-paying tech jobs. Here is the full text of the...
As a part of ongoing research and development, Vigilant Aerospace completed an informal test flight on Friday, Nov. 18 at Wiley Post airport in Oklahoma City. This flight was primarily a shakedown test of several recent improvements to FlightHorizon in advance of our...
We have just opened our new Certified Education Partner Program. To further promote a safe national airspace, we are now seeking to partner with professional education organizations to provide training in flight safety, aircraft management and maintenance, manned and...
The Beta Test Program has now expired, but you can contact us to sign up for a subscription or coordinate a demonstration here. Vigilant Aerospace Systems is excited to announce the FlightHorizon Beta Test Program is open and accepting applications. Free, Early...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to further develop, test, and integrate the NASA patented Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) technology with transponders available on the market. Under the agreement, Vigilant...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, and Cimarron Capital Partners were honored with the award for Outstanding Commercialization Success by the Federal Labs Consortium (FLC) Far West Region at an awards ceremony in September 2016 for the...
We are very happy to announce our new Certified Reseller Partner Program preview. The Certified Reseller Partner Program is designed to provide trusted technical advisers who agree to sell our FlightHorizon product to their customers with an easy way to receive high...
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli Epperson, is joining Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and NASA as a speaker at the upcoming UAS TechForum to be hosted in Oklahoma City next week. The Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Forum is a full day seminar featuring presentations from...
Here are some comments on the new FAA Part 107 UAS Aeronautical Knowledge Test by our CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, who took and passed the exam this morning in the first few hours that the exam was available and as one of the first test takers in the US. Test Prep...
Drone Beyond-Line-of-Sight Demand Drives Growth Opportunity for Detect-and-Avoid Avionics At the recent Mindset and Methods of Open Innovation seminar on August 11, 2016, our CEO Mr. Kraettli Epperson, shared the origin story of Vigilant Aerospace Systems from a...
Vigilant Aerospace celebrated the publication of NASA’s Patent #9,405,005 today! Vigilant Aerospace is the exclusive licensee of this patent, which includes technologies for: Integration of aircraft transponders onto unmanned aircraft Signal processing and...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has announced two new products in the FlightHorizon™ family, including our detect-and-avoid software for both manned and unmanned aircraft. FlightHorizon GA™ NASA Developed Avionics for ADS-B In/Out, Detect-and-Avoid Flight...
We are delighted to announce the official launch of Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc. Here is our public announcement of the launch: Press Announcement – VAS Launches – February 26 2016 [PDF] Here is the full text of the announcement: Vigilant Aerospace...
NASA has announced the licensing of its new traffic awareness and airspace management technology to Vigilant Aerospace Systems: NASA Press Release – NASA Licenses Unmanned Communications Tech [PDF] Here is the announcement on the NASA Armstrong Flight Research...
Accompanying our licensing agreement with NASA, we also held a licensing ceremony at Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California on February 8, 2016. As a part of the ceremony, our CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, shared some remarks on behalf of Vigilant...
