London, UK & Geneva, Switzerland: NATS Companies, the industrial arm of the UK’s main ANSP and Altitude Angel, a world chief in unified site visitors administration (UTM) and creators of the 165 mile UK drone superhighway, have chosen the primary day of Airspace World Expo in Geneva to announce a strategic industrial partnership which is able to revolutionise the best way the sky is managed for brand spanking new airspace customers.
The mix of Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM suite of applied sciences and NATS Companies’ main airspace administration experience will allow aggressive and progressive companies to combine new airspace customers, whereas sustaining protected operations for its current industrial aviation clients.
This deal may also see GuardianUTM Flight Approval Companies being deployed at some NATS-controlled airports later in 2024, permitting for digitally managed UTM flight requests and approvals and enhanced situational consciousness.
The partnership may also speed up Altitude Angel’s roll-out of its transformative ARROW know-how, which when fused with its GuardianUTM platform, detects and identifies all airspace customers, enabling drones to fly BVLOS and share the airspace with crewed aviation safely and securely.
On the strategic partnership, Man Adams, Managing Director of NATS Companies, mentioned: “Supporting the event of New Airspace Customers by way of airspace integration and the availability of latest companies is one among our strategic priorities. This partnership with Altitude Angel is a milestone in UK aviation, bringing collectively the know-how, operational experience and innovation that may enable us to additional assist the trade.
“The mix of Altitude Angel’s UTM applied sciences and NATS’ deep understanding of air site visitors and airspace administration will enable us to additional embrace the combination of this new technology of airspace customers, whereas additionally persevering with to ship the very highest requirements of security and effectivity.”
Richard Parker, Altitude Angel, CEO and founder, added: “By way of this alliance, NATS and Altitude Angel deliver collectively the unparalleled energy of air site visitors management experience with the world main innovation of UTM.
“This partnership brings collectively in-depth data, real-world expertise, and, most significantly, a shared imaginative and prescient for a future the place the skies will not be simply open however interconnected, the place conventional and rising aviation seamlessly coexist. Collectively, we are going to create an airspace which displays the concord of collaboration and the promise of a safer, extra sustainable aviation future for all. We’re happy our management and innovation has been recognised by NATS as essential to not solely its future, however to the way forward for UK airspace.”
