Featured NewsProduct NewsExposVIGILANT AEROSPACE CEO to Speak at XPONENTIAL 2025
12 May 2025
Vigilant Aerospace, the leading multi-sensor detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems will be at the Oklahoma Pavilion (booth #4422) with the Tulsa Innovation Labs team at this year’s XPONENTIAL, May 19-22, held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston.
Come Meet
Kraettli Epperson, CEO
Zach Peterson, Business Development Director
Catch Up on Some of Our Latest Projects
- The Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics (ODAA) selected Vigilant Aeropace to deploy its FlightHorizon system on behalf of the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA) as part of its investment in Advanced Air Mobility infrastructure.
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Partners with Vigilant to advance UAS education, research, training.
- A groundbreaking project for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop a detect-and-avoid (DAA) system for the Air Force’s new long-endurance drone.
- The dedicated airspace management system for the leading US droneport, Skyway36, in Tulsa, OK.
Join the Workshop
May 19, 12:30-2:30pm CDT
Detect and Avoid (DAA) Standards, Compliance, and Approvals – a “How To” (Do it Right) Workshop. CEO Kraettli Epperson is participating in the Technical Research & Platform Development Track, organized by ASTM, by running the culminating exercise portion.
Workshop Description. Flying your uncrewed aircraft Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) requires a way to meet the rules of the air – especially that you “see and avoid” other aircraft. Operators seeking BVLOS approvals are required to describe their system’s conformity with “pertinent sections of industry standards related to collision avoidance systems, ground-based surveillance systems, and detect and avoid systems.”
The panel sets out to address questions such as:
- What Industry Consensus Standards are out there to use?
- How do you find the pertinent requirements?
- How do you design a test to show you meet them? And just what is an “encounter set” anyway?
The lineup includes:
- Marcus Cunningham, Federal Aviation Administration
- Matthew Edwards, NATO Sense and Avoid Specialist Team
- Rob Knochenhauer, Censys Technologies
- Kyle Ryker, Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence
- Andy Thurling and Alexander Fomenko, DroneUp
Workshop details here. The workshop requires its own registration - XPONENTIAL 2025 | AUVSI
