Category Archives: UTM

Northrop Grumman Partners with NASA on Integration of UAS in National Airspace

Northrop Grumman Corporation is collaborating with NASA to develop and test solutions for integrating large, uncrewed aircraft systems into the National Airspace System (NAS). The effort will focus on air cargo operations and is part of NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration (ATM-X) Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles (PAAV) subproject. Continue reading

BT Group Backs Altitude Angel in £5M Deal

Etc., the incubation team in BT Group’s Digital unit boosting the businesses of the future, today announces that it has entered into a £5 million deal with Altitude Angel, a global UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, as the two businesses scale the UK drone industry and support the development of the UK’s drone superhighway, set to be the largest and longest network of its kind in the world. Continue reading

Cranfield Leads European Demonstration Programme on Integrating Drones into Urban Airspaces

A new European project, AMU-LED, is now carrying out coordination and substantial testing to manage this airspace traffic and check safety, interoperability and feasibility. The first trial demonstration took place at Cranfield University, UK, on 30 June, and will be followed by other trial events in the Netherlands and Spain. Continue reading