Heron AirBridge named Southeast Asia Ambassador for Global UTM Association

Heron Air­Bridge, a provider of unmanned air­craft sys­tem traf­fic man­age­ment solu­tions from Sin­ga­pore, has been appoint­ed as Region­al Ambas­sador South­east Asia for the Glob­al UTM Asso­ci­a­tion (GUTMA).

Head­quar­tered in Lau­sanne, Switzer­land, GUTMA rep­re­sents the glob­al UTM indus­try in sup­port of the safe inte­gra­tion of unmanned air­craft sys­tems (UAS) into glob­al air­spaces.

Mem­bers span more than 30 coun­tries world­wide and include Air­bus, Boe­ing and Ama­zon. It has recent­ly launched a Region­al Ambas­sador Pro­gramme to engage with major indus­try lead­ers glob­al­ly.

For South­east Asia, Heron Air­Bridge has been select­ed as GUTMA’s first-ever ambas­sador and go-to con­tact for the ter­ri­to­ry to help the asso­ci­a­tion accel­er­ate the urban mobil­i­ty tran­si­tion in the South­east Asian region.

“As our Region­al Ambas­sador, Heron Air­Bridge will play a cru­cial role in advanc­ing the mis­sion of GUTMA and shape the future of the UTM indus­try,” said Koen De Vos, sec­re­tary gen­er­al of Glob­al UTM Asso­ci­a­tion. “Togeth­er we can engage in impact­ful reg­u­la­to­ry process­es to fos­ter a glob­al ecosys­tem in a fair drone ser­vices mar­ket.”

With strong sup­port from the Sin­ga­pore gov­ern­ment, Heron Air­Bridge was found­ed in 2022 by Ryan Lee and Fab­rice Ancey fol­low­ing the acqui­si­tion of Nova Sys­tems’ Asia busi­ness.

Under their lead­er­ship, the firm has engaged with like-mind­ed inno­va­tors and indus­try part­ners on projects to address low-alti­tude air­space man­age­ment and pro­mote safe drone and UTM ser­vices in the region.

Ryan Lee, CEO and cofounder of Heron Air­Bridge, added: “This region has the poten­tial to be one of the largest drone mar­kets, which will need UTM reg­u­la­tions and ser­vices in place to hap­pen. Togeth­er with GUTMA’s mem­bers, we look for­ward to sup­port­ing the efforts of UTM reg­u­la­to­ry and indus­try devel­op­ments in South­east Asia.”

Found­ed in 2022 Heron Air­Bridge is a sub­sidiary of the Heron Tech­nol­o­gy Group, a cyber­se­cu­ri­ty and drone tech­nol­o­gy ser­vices provider from Sin­ga­pore, focussed on the research and devel­op­ment of AAM and drone tech­nol­o­gy while empha­sis­ing safe­ty and secu­ri­ty across its plat­forms.

Air­Bridge was launched in 2021 as an oper­a­tor and OEM-agnos­tic plat­form that enables access to the low-alti­tude air­space for com­plex beyond visu­al line of sight (BVLOS) oper­a­tions.

Estab­lished in 2016, GUTMA is a non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion rep­re­sent­ing a glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of top-notch avi­a­tion com­pa­nies and reg­u­la­tors. Swiss organ­i­sa­tion aims to fos­ter the safe, secure and effi­cient inte­gra­tion of drones in glob­al air­space sys­tems through a sup­port­ing mis­sion that accel­er­ates trans­par­ent imple­men­ta­tion of inter­op­er­a­ble UTM sys­tems.

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