Vigilant Aerospace Systems CEO Kraettli L. Epperson has been invited to join industry leaders as a speaker in the upcoming 2022 SAE AeroTech conference March 15-17 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. Epperson’s presentation titled “Developing and Testing Fully Onboard Automatic Detect-and-Avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Advanced Air Mobility” will be included […]
Vigilant Aerospace Systems’ CEO Kraettli Epperson participated in an AUVSI presentation on “Enhancing Operations with Sensors and Other Instruments.” We are happy to share...
Vigilant Aerospace provided its FlightHorizon airspace management and detect-and-avoid system to support flight testing carried out by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program known as the Alliance for Systems Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). The testing was carried out in early June 2021 at […]
Vigilant Aerospace announced today the addition of software engineers Jesse Smith and Jack Maring to the company’s growing technical team. Both are accomplished software developers who will be working to launch and support new versions of the company’s FlightHorizon family of unmanned aircraft safety products. “Vigilant Aerospace is growing with the unmanned aircraft industry and […]
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 virtual conference is on October 29, 2020. The presentation is titled “Recent Real-World BVLOS UAS Flight Testing: Detect-and-Avoid […]
Vigilant Aerospace and Oklahoma State University are presenting a panel session on using droneports for the development of innovative new unmanned aircraft technologies including advanced safety systems for beyond visual line-of-sight flight at the upcoming DronePort Network seminar on Monday, Oct. 5th, 2020 at 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT The session is titled “Using […]
Vigilant Aerospace Systems has been named one of the “2021 Best Tech Startups in Oklahoma City” by the Tech Tribune for the second year running (see 2020 Best Tech Startups in Oklahoma City announcement). The “Best Tech Startups” list is the flagship series released annually by The Tech Tribune in partnership with Crunchbase which recognizes […]
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 Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Systems Research Institute and utilizing the company’s FlightHorizon air traffic awareness and safety system. […]
Vigilant Aerospace Systems recently participated in a pandemic response test flight with Oklahoma State University and MaxQ on April 16th at the Oklahoma State University Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Station. The flights were led by the Oklahoma State University Unmanned Systems Research Institute and monitored onsite in real-time with our FlightHorizon airspace awareness and management […]
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 April 16. The system is designed to deliver medical supplies and testing kits for pandemic relief and other disaster response efforts using unmanned […]
Vigilant Aerospace Systems is honored to be recognized by The Tech Tribune as one of the Best Oklahoma Tech Startups in their annual state-by-state listing of the most promising tech startups in the US. The Tech Tribune list, titled “2020 Best Tech Startups in Oklahoma,” is part of the Tribune’s flagship article series started in […]