by admin | Oct 6, 2023 | Company News, Events, Featured, Media
Vigilant Aerospace CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, was featured in the recent UAS Magazine podcast ahead of his upcoming appearance at the upcoming UAS Summit & Expo in Grand Forks, ND on October 10. He will be speaking at 10:40am discussing the future of UAS collision...
by admin | Aug 26, 2021 | Company News, Industry News, Media
Aviation Week, a leading industry publication, recently released an article covering the research and development work Vigilant Aerospace Systems and Oklahoma State University’s (OSU) Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) have completed focusing on the live...
by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | Company News, Industry News, Media
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ research projects with Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) were recently featured in the annual OSU Research Matters magazine. mentioned in OSU Research Matters Magazine, the official magazine...
by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Company News, Industry News, Media, R&D
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...
by admin | Jun 30, 2019 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, Industry News, Media
For the second year in a row, Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been selected by Drone Industry Insights (DII) as one of the “most relevant” companies operating in the drone technology market in their recently published 2019 Drone Market Environment Map. Vigilant is...
by admin | Nov 12, 2018 | Company News, Media
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...
by admin | Feb 22, 2018 | Industry News, Media
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...
by admin | Dec 29, 2017 | Awards & Recognition, Company News, Media, R&D
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...
by admin | Oct 31, 2017 | Company News, Media
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...
by admin | Sep 29, 2017 | Media
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...
by admin | Sep 11, 2017 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace was recently featured in a Crunchbase News article “How Tech Helped Kick Ass During Hurricane Harvey” by Mary Ann Azevedo about how technology, including drones, was used to help in response efforts after Hurricane Harvey impacted the...
by admin | Aug 29, 2017 | Media
Ricardo Arteaga, NASA Research Engineer and inventor of the patented NASA technology behind our FlightHorizon product, was recently interviewed for the “Innovator Spotlight” series published by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. During the interview,...
by admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Media
Colin Snow, the “Drone Analyst,” who publishes research on unmanned aircraft systems at SkyLogic Research and is a top-billed columnist at DroneLife, published an analysis on March 10th in DroneLife about AirMap’s new proposal to issue digital...
by admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace Systems was recently featured in an article by Oklahoma Magazine (OKMag.com) on commercial drone integration into the U.S. national airspace. From the article: “Our system provides the capability to detect-and-avoid aircraft and gives unmanned...
by admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace recently announced the successful completion of beyond visual line-of-sight testing of the latest version of the FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid system for unmanned aircraft. The tests were conducted in NASA Armstrong’s controlled airspace by...
by admin | Jan 13, 2017 | Media
DroneLife.com, a leading commercial drone news source, covered the release of Vigilant Aerospace’s Beyond Line-of-Sight Drone List. Excerpt from the article: “We believe that the future of unmanned aircraft in the US has arrived, and only a few obstacles remain...
by admin | Aug 24, 2016 | Media
The technology behond Vigilant Aerospace’s FlightHorizon product, based on NASA’s patent #9,405,005, has been named one of “four new ground-breaking technologies which will take the air navigation to the next step” by GreyB, a top international patent services firm....
by admin | Aug 8, 2016 | Media
On August 5, 2016, Unmanned Systems Technology (UST) News reported our new partnership with NASA on development and testing of the new UAS Traffic Management (UTM) system. Excerpt from the article: The partnership allows the company to integrate UTM flight plans and...
by admin | May 16, 2016 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace was featured in this week’s frontpage article in DroneLife magazine about the top three states in the US for the drone industry. The article, The Top 3 Drone Friendly States May Surprise You, by Miriam McNabb, included interviews and brief...
by admin | May 1, 2016 | Media
Vigilant Aerospace’s recent licensing of NASA’s patented sense-and-avoid technologies for unmanned aircraft was aided by several NASA subcontractors who serve the agency in the capacity of tech-transfer and subject-matter experts. One of these companies,...
by admin | Mar 13, 2016 | Media
The Oklahoman has published a feature story in the Business Section on the launch of Vigilant Aerospace Systems in Oklahoma City. From the story: Aerospace startup licenses crash-prevention technology from NASA “One of the most exciting things that we are doing...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Media
IDST: International Defence, Security and Technology, published a detailed report on March 7, 2016 regarding the current state of sense and avoid technologies for unmanned aircraft flight automation, including review of Vigilant Aerospace’s recent licensing of...
by admin | Mar 5, 2016 | Media
In a March 1, 2016 article on integration of commercial unmanned aircraft into the US national airspace, Aviation International News, a leading industry publication, has offered this analysis of the FAA’s current strategy: Excerpt from the article: As the FAA...
by admin | Mar 5, 2016 | Media
The announcement of our company launch and the licensing agreement with NASA have been widely reported in the media over the last week: NASA Licenses New Communication Technology for Unmanned Aircraft – SpaceRef – Feb. 26, 2016 NASA has signed a license...
by admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Media
The Journal Record published a feature story about the launch of Vigilant Aerospace on March 1, 2016. From the story: Vigilant Aerospace Systems Inc. launched this week with a new avionics platform that works with NASA drone technology to make air traffic safer, Chief...
