Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson recently presented a brief online presentation discussing our participation in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) University Leadership Initiative (ULI) WindMap project lead by Oklahoma State University....
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...
At AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2021, Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli L. Epperson participated in a virtual panel titled “New Technologies, Standards and Developments in the Delivery of Viable Detect-and-Avoid Systems for BVLOS Commercial UAS.” The session focused on what...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has formally launched a radar testing program at the Alaska UAS Test Site. The program is conducted in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI). The...
Vigilant Aerospace CEO Kraettli Epperson will be presenting a technical overview and real-world case study from the company’s recent beyond visual line-of-sight drone flights using a multi-sensor detect-and-avoid system at the upcoming UAS Summit & Expo. The...
Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson, has been invited to make a presentation on October 7th at the upcoming AUVSI XPONENTIAL conference on the company’s record-setting 18-mile fully autonomous drone flight carried out by the company with...
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...
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 Systems and the Unmanned Systems Research Institute (USRI) at Oklahoma State University (OSU) have been awarded a state research and development grant to support the integration of radar into Vigilant Aerospace’s detect-and-avoid and airspace...
Vigilant Aerospace Systems recently sponsored and attended the UAS Tech Forum in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, the annual event hosted by the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Cluster Initiative of Oklahoma and Kansas. The forum brings together industry, research, education,...
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...
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, 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 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...
Company to integrate unmanned flight plans and data into its FlightHorizon™ detect-and-avoid software OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (August 4, 2016) – Vigilant Aerospace Systems announced today that it has become a partner in the development and testing of the UAS Traffic...
CNN recently reported on the collision tests being done to evaluate if airliners can withstand an aerial collision with a standard commercial drone. The FAA release of the new Part 107 drone regulations has turned an event larger spotlight on drone safety. Headed by...
