Altitude Angel, a global unmanned traffic management (UTM) provider, is to join the Swiss civil aviation authority (FOCA) development programme to establish a U-Space regulatory framework. Continue reading
Category Archives: UTM
Airbus Studies Urban Air Mobility for 2024 Olympic Games in Paris
Airbus, Groupe ADP and the RATP Group, along with the Paris Ile-de-France region and the French civil aviation authority (DGAC), have announced the launch of a feasibility study to demonstrate an urban system of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Continue reading
Deloitte to Develop Urban Air Mobility Plan for NASA
Deloitte announced that it has earned a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a Concept of Operations (ConOps) for urban air mobility (UAM). The project is part of the NASA broader effort, which focuses on the development and introduction of new air vehicles into the air transportation system in the United States. Continue reading
Raytheon and AirMap Collaborate on UTM
AirMap, a global airspace intelligence platform for drones, and Raytheon Company, announced that they have signed a strategic agreement to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate unmanned aerial systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, into the national airspace system and unlock the positive economic and social benefits of expanded commercial drone operations. Continue reading
Taiwan Tests Terra Drone and Unifly’s UTM System
Taiwanese government officials with Terra Drone crew at Fukushima Robot Test Field in Japan
Terra Drone Corporation, one of the world’s largest providers of industrial drone solutions, has successfully demonstrated to Taiwanese government officials an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system developed jointly with Unifly, a leading drone traffic management provider from Europe and a portfolio company of Terra Drone. Continue reading
FAA Offers New Partnerships to Validate Key Drone Technologies
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will partner with qualified commercial companies who can match the agency’s $6 million pledge to perform vital drone integration safety work at the FAA’s UAS test sites. Continue reading
OneSky Starts Live UTM Flight Tests at NY UAS Test Site
OneSky, a business unit of Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI), in conjunction with NUAIR (Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research), and Griffiss International Airport in Rome, New York, commenced live flight testing in April with the AGI OneSky Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) solution. Continue reading
NASA Invites Media to Watch UTM Tests
NASA is conducting field demonstrations of small drones navigating urban landscapes in Reno, Nevada, and Corpus Christi, Texas, May through August 2019. These demonstrations will complete its testing of technologies that can be part of a system to safely manage drone traffic. Continue reading