uAvionix has acquired Iris Automation, combining two main options enabling superior UAS operations. Jon Damus, previously CEO of Iris Automation, has been named CEO of uAvionix.
uAvionix is a frontrunner in communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) options. Iris Automation™ is a number one supplier of optical Detect and Keep away from (DAA) expertise, each onboard and ground-based. Because the FAA strikes to difficulty extra waivers for flight past visible line of sight (BVLOS), DAA options could be vital elements of a expertise answer that meets the FAA’s security standards. The 2 corporations lately introduced an modern integration of uAvionix command and management (C2) with Iris’ DAA expertise. Now, the acquisition will additional allow the 2 corporations to leverage their applied sciences to create a precious industrial providing. “This strategic transfer combines uAvionix’s intensive CNS and aviation experience with Iris’ management in laptop vision-based methods for the protected separation of plane,” says the press launch.
“The mixture of Iris Automation’s and uAvionix’s capabilities gives for a multi-layered-safety structure that helps integration of UAS into the Nationwide Airspace System,” famous Paul Beard, CTO and founding father of uAvionix. “By our collective efforts, we’re fixing the 2 largest technical challenges to UAS integration: Command and Management and Detect and Keep away from. Fixing these issues builds safer airspace for all customers.”
Jon Damush Assumes
Position of CEO of uAvionix Company
Jon Damush is a drone trade veteran, coming to Iris Automation from Insitu and Boeing. Now, says the press launch: “Jon Damush expands the present uAvionix management crew and brings greater than 30 years of aviation te
chnology expertise. His intensive background in engineering for crewed and uncrewed aviation, software program growth, and methods integration positions him as a visionary chief to information uAvionix’s development throughout various markets, together with Common Aviation, Uncrewed Aviation, Protection, and Aviation Networks.”
“Jon Damush’s appointment as CEO hits all the precise marks for uAvionix. His distinctive background and imaginative and prescient complement an already sturdy management crew at uAvionix and aligns completely with the uAvionix mission to paved the way in advancing aviation security and effectivity,” stated David Web page, Accomplice at DC Capital Companions. “The addition of Iris’ optical capabilities with present uAvionix options additional cements our market place inside BVLOS operations.”
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