High Lander UTM Solutions Becomes Member of GUTMA

Swiss-based GUTMA (Glob­al Uncrewed Traf­fic Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion) announced this week it has a new mem­ber, Israel-based High Lan­der UTM Solu­tions and Soft­ware Provider, reports a press release. As a new mem­ber, High Lan­der will par­tic­i­pate in work­ing groups and oth­er activ­i­ties, tak­ing on a more sig­nif­i­cant role in devel­op­ing glob­al UTM stan­dards and the U‑space in Europe and beyond.

Found­ed in 2018, High Lander’s Mis­sion Con­trol and Uni­ver­sal UTM solu­tions, states the release, “is a drone-agnos­tic, auto­mat­ed plat­form that mon­i­tors all air­borne activ­i­ty over ter­ri­to­ries of any size in real time. It autonomous­ly approves, denies, and sug­gests alter­na­tive flight plans as need­ed, pro­vid­ing com­plete air­space cov­er­age for busi­ness­es and gov­ern­ment author­i­ties.”

It con­tin­ues, “Users of Uni­ver­sal UTM span the globe, with clients includ­ing the Israeli nation­al police force and Speed­bird Aero, the biggest drone deliv­ery com­pa­ny in Brazil.”

Mean­while, GUTMA was formed in 2016 to pro­mote “the devel­op­ment of an ecosys­tem of drone ser­vices that oper­ate in tan­dem with lega­cy avi­a­tion and pro­vide real val­ue to soci­ety. It works towards estab­lish­ing a glob­al stan­dard of UTM ser­vices and build­ing a U‑space in which ATM and UTM ser­vices work har­mo­nious­ly.”

The Association’s activ­i­ties include set­ting up work­ing groups, organ­is­ing indus­try events, pub­lish­ing White Papers and UTM stan­dards reports, while liais­ing with the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion via its EU Pol­i­cy Task Force. GUTMA’s mem­bers include Air­bus, Boe­ing, the Aus­tralian Civ­il Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Author­i­ty, the US Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion, Israel Aero­space Indus­tries and Switzerland’s Fed­er­al Office for Civ­il Avi­a­tion (FACO).

In fact, FACO was one of the found­ing organ­i­sa­tions of GUTMA, and its Direc­tor of Avi­a­tion Pol­i­cy and Strat­e­gy, Mar­cel Kägi, sits on GUTMA’s board of direc­tors. Kagi com­ment­ed, “Our val­ues align exact­ly with High Lan­der and its mem­ber­ship strength­ens our posi­tion as a pio­neer in scal­able UTM tech­nol­o­gy.”

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Alon Abel­son, CEO and co-Founder of High Lan­der, added, “We look for­ward to par­tic­i­pat­ing in the shap­ing of pol­i­cy deci­sions and inter­na­tion­al UTM stan­dards in the years to come.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.highlander.io

https://gutma.org

(Images: High Lander/GUTMA)