Vigilant Aerospace demonstrated its new FlightHorizon DEFENDER counter-UAS system in early February as the first featured system for the Oklahoma Army National Guard’s new Counter-UAS training center located at Camp Gruber near Braggs, Oklahoma. The demonstration...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems, Inc., a provider of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid safety systems for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility (AAM), announced that it has been awarded a contract by the US Air Force to develop a detect-and-avoid system for...
SAN DIEGO (August 2, 2022) – Vigilant Aerospace announced on Tuesday that it has provided a demonstration FlightHorizon COMMANDER airspace management system to the US Air Force in support of the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 exercise, currently going on in Hawaii...
April 18, 2022, Indianapolis, IN — Pierce Aerospace announced a partnership with Vigilant Aerospace Systems today to integrate Pierce Aerospace’s Flight Portal Remote ID technologies into Vigilant’s FlightHorizon airspace management and flight safety products....
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO recently made a 30-minute presentation on testing onboard automatic detect-and-avoid systems for unmanned aircraft at the 2022 SAE AeroTech Conference in Pasadena, California. Titled “Developing and Testing Fully Onboard Automatic...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson participated in an AUVSI presentation on “Enhancing Operations with Sensors and Other Instruments.” We are happy to share the video of the presentation and a full transcript, below. Please contact...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson recently presented at the 2021 AUVSI & SAE Business of Automated Mobility (BAM) Forum in a panel session titled “Developing & Testing a Real-World BVLOS Multi-Sensor DAA System for Unmanned Aircraft...
Courtesy: NASA/Lauren Hughes Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ FlightHorizon airspace management software has been used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to track and log flight activity for multiple research efforts, including the agency’s...
Vigilant Aerospace was a sponsor and presenter at the recent DronePort Network Seminar “Unlocking the Potential in Your Community” produced by the DronePort Network as an AUVSI 2019 XPONENTIAL co-located event in Chicago, IL on April 29th. Vigilant...
Vigilant Aerospace is pleased to announce that we have obtained a Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) determination from the US Department of State for our FlightHorizon GCS product. This new determination, CJ 0370-18, allows the export of FlightHorizon GCS without the need...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems participated with Oklahoma State University (OSU) today in the first beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone flights authorized under a new, unique FAA Certificate of Authorization (COA) allowing flights in a 13-mile long corridor in...
NASA launched the Quiet Supersonic Flights (QSF18) out of Galveston, Texas this week. The flights missions include up to eight flights per day with the flights occurring in the mornings and the afternoons over a two week period starting November 5. FlightHorizonX...
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 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...
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...
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...
Based on recent flight testing at NASA, work with manned aircraft safety training providers, and long-range offshore public safety patrol flights, Vigilant Aerospace has added several new features to FlightHorizon. These include a broader range of transponder...
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 has published a new FlightHorizon Buying Guide to help you through the process of selecting the right product for your operational needs. Whether you are flying a single small UAS for patrols within 20 miles of your ground control station, or are...
Vigilant Aerospace is announcing our new list of FlightHorizon™ products for both ground-based and on-board detect-and avoid, and our new integration and consulting services: FlightHorizon GCS™ – Uses an aviation transponder and, when available, ground-based radar,...
We have updated our “Explainer Video” about what FlightHorizon does for unmanned, commercial aircraft operators. If you’ve been looking for the short story on what we’re doing, here’s your chance to find out, fast! Click the...
Vigilant Aerospace has added new functions and made significant improvements to FlightHorizon using the flight data collected during our BVLOS flight testing at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in December 2016. Watch the 90-second video about our recent beyond...
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...
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...
Research and Product Testing of NASA ADS-B Detect-and-Avoid Algorithm Lead by Ricardo Arteaga, CxP Orion Flight Systems Engineer at NASA Dryden, the research team based out of the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California recently published a...