Oklahoma City, OK (February 8, 2025) – The Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics (ODAA) has completed a contract for the state’s first airspace management system to support both drones and the emerging Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) industry.
Local company Vigilant Aerospace, based in Oklahoma City, has been chosen to deploy this advanced system, marking a key step toward establishing Oklahoma as a regional leader in drone operations and AAM technology.
Under the multi-year agreement, Vigilant will install the FlightHorizon system at the Oklahoma Air & Space Port at Clinton-Sherman Airport (pictured), a unique spaceport licensed by the FAA.
The system will integrate multiple mobile air traffic surveillance radars and provide functions like Uncrewed Traffic Management (UTM) for monitoring both cooperative and non-cooperative aircraft.
This system will also eliminate the need for chase planes in long-range, beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights of unmanned aircraft, enabling high-speed, high-altitude UAS operations.
The project is part of Oklahoma’s larger effort to foster the growth of unmanned and autonomous aircraft, including electric air taxis and autonomous cargo planes.
Vigilant Aerospace is the leading developer of multi-sensor detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The company’s product, FlightHorizon, is based on two NASA patents and uses data from multiple sources to display a real-time picture of the air traffic around a UAS and to provide automatic avoidance maneuvers to prevent collisions. The software is designed to meet industry technical standards, to provide automatic safety and to allow UAS to safely fly beyond the sight of the pilot. The software has won multiple industry awards and the company has had contracts and users at NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Department of Defense and with a variety of drone development programs. Visit our website at www.VigilantAerospace.com