NASA has announced this week that the technology licensed to Vigilant Aerospace and used in the company’s FlightHorizon detect-and-avoid and airspace management product has won NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year 2021 award. The winning technology was invented by NASA Senior Research Engineer Ricardo Arteaga working with a team at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center […]

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Vigilant Aerospace’s CEO recently made a 30-minute presentation on testing onboard automatic detect-and-avoid systems for unmanned aircraft at the 2022 SAE AeroTech Conference in Pasadena, California. Titled “Developing and Testing Fully Onboard Automatic Detect-and-Avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Advanced Air Mobility,” the presentation covered a variety of topics: Introduction: What is Detect-and-Avoid? What is […]

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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 […]

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Vigilant Aerospace Systems is joining aviation industry professionals at the 2022 Fly ND Conference March 6-8, 2022 at Delta Hotel in Fargo, ND. Fly ND is an annual conference produced by the North Dakota Aviation Association which brings industry leaders from North Dakota and surrounding states together for expertise sharing, learning, networking, and discussions on […]

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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. Here’s more about the WindMap project: NASA ULI WindMap Project Vigilant Aerospace Briefing   From the video: Hi, I’m Kraettli Epperson, CEO […]

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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 testing of a multi-sensor integrated detect-and-avoid system for unmanned aircraft operations. The research and development project was carried out over […]

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