The Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) has entered into a partnership with uAvionix that will enable uncrewed Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations at Skyway Range.
A leading provider of avionics solutions and infrastructure services for uncrewed and crewed aircraft, uAvionix will play a key role in developing the Skyway Range in Oklahoma — a flight test facility that connects the Osage Nation and its enterprises’ Skyway36 Droneport in Tulsa, Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Aircraft Flight Station near Stillwater and two additional nodes in the region.
The company will deploy a centrally managed Command and Control (C2) and Detect and Avoid (DAA) system across multiple nodes and provide system integration services to the OAIRE team.
Each node will consist of detect-and-avoid and unmanned traffic management systems including radar, surveillance broadcast receivers, cameras, radios and aviation weather monitoring systems to produce full coverage of aviation traffic in the area to maintain airspace safety.
“The uAvionix team is excited to engage with OAIRE and partners on the deployment of this range near Tulsa, Oklahoma,” said Christian Ramsey, managing director for uAvionix. “Through our shared vision with OAIRE and our experience with uncrewed avionics, operations and aviation networks, we are confident this will become a very successful partnership.”
Source : OKS
