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 is bringing NASA technologies to Oklahoma — we are commercializing them here and we are developing them here,” said Kraettli L. Epperson, CEO of Vigilant Aerospace Systems.
Vigilant will begin hiring a handful of developers, engineering and sales staff in the coming weeks to help bring the NASA technology to market.
The aerospace startup is backed by the Oklahoma City-based venture capital and private equity group Cimarron Capital Partners.
“We believe that the unmanned aerosystem industry is small today, but is poised to be very large in the future,” said Robert Heard, managing director of Cimarron Capital Partners. “Assuring aircraft don’t run into each other is a huge element of the industry and the the technology licensed by Vigilant, developed by NASA helps solve that problem.”
Read the whole story here: Aerospace startup licenses crash-prevention technology from NASA
Vigilant Aerospace is the leading developer of 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