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 company profiles of UAS companies in North Dakota, New Mexico and Oklahoma as well as an interview with our CEO, Kraettli L. Epperson.
From the article:
“Vigilant is a provider of sophisticated sense-and-avoid, flight safety and flight de-conflicting technologies to help integrate drones into the NAS. The company has a unique offering: They use existing FAA systems and protocols. Epperson says that Oklahoma’s WBT Open Innovation Forum was where he met the NASA scientists who developed the technology that they use. In addition, Epperson participates in a UAS Cluster Initiative to encourage early stage companies and the governor’s UAS Council…”
Read the full article here: The Top 3 Drone Friendly States May Surprise You
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