MySky ECO, Airwayz Announce Collaboration “to Develop Long-Range Autonomous UAV System Supported By Space Florida and Israel Innovation Authority” 

U.S‑based MySky ECO, a green avi­a­tion devel­op­er and Israeli Air­wayz, a lead­ing Unmanned Traf­fic Man­age­ment (UTM) tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny, have launched a col­lab­o­ra­tion to devel­op a next-gen­er­a­tion long-range UAV sys­tem, reports a press release.

This bi-nation­al project was recent­ly select­ed for fund­ing by the Space Flori­da-Israel Inno­va­tion Part­ner­ship Pro­gram and is designed to demon­strate a ful­ly autonomous drone plat­form capa­ble of Beyond Visu­al Line of Sight (BVLOS) oper­a­tions in reg­u­lat­ed and com­plex air­spaces across the Unit­ed States.

The release explains, “The two com­pa­nies share a com­mon mis­sion: to prove that unmanned air­craft can oper­ate safe­ly and effi­cient­ly along­side tra­di­tion­al avi­a­tion in real-world, high-traf­fic envi­ron­ments.” 

Jere­my Maswary, CEO of MySky ECO, com­ment­ed, “The part­ner­ship brings togeth­er two high­ly com­ple­men­tary tech­nolo­gies — advanced effi­cient avi­a­tion and cut­ting-edge AI-dri­ven UTM.”

He con­tin­ued, “We’re not just test­ing large BVLOS drones, across mul­ti­ple flight cor­ri­dors and mis­sion pro­files, but the MS-1D flight enve­lope also has excep­tion­al range and endurance capa­bil­i­ties, mak­ing it a nat­ur­al fit.” 

Jere­my Maswary

The sys­tem is to inte­grate MySky’s MS-1D UAV plat­form, derived from its eco-effi­cient light air­craft tech­nol­o­gy, with Air­wayz’ AI-based UTM soft­ware. The latter’s plat­form enables real-time coor­di­na­tion of mul­ti­ple drone fleets, dynam­ic air­space man­age­ment and safe coex­is­tence with manned air­craft — enabled with strate­gic and tac­ti­cal decon­flic­tion capa­bil­i­ties. 

Eyal Zor, CEO of Air­wayz, remarked, “This is an impor­tant step for the future of air­space man­age­ment and autonomous flight. Togeth­er, we’re build­ing a real-world oper­a­tional mod­el that enables unmanned air­craft to sup­port high-impact mis­sions like organ trans­port and search-and-res­cue, even in busy skies.” 

The release con­tin­ues, “Devel­op­ment is already under­way, with flight test­ing tar­get­ed towards the end of the year. The sys­tem will be eval­u­at­ed across mul­ti­ple high-impact use cases—including med­ical and organ trans­port, emer­gency and pack­age deliv­ery, search and res­cue, and bor­der reconnaissance—requiring a long-range, high-speed drone capa­ble of oper­at­ing from short or unim­proved run­way envi­ron­ments.”

While the project is co-fund­ed by Space Flori­da and the Israel Inno­va­tion Author­i­ty, all tech­ni­cal and oper­a­tional com­po­nents are being devel­oped by the two com­pa­nies.

Grant Des­marais, Pres­i­dent of MySky ECO, added, “Air­wayz’ UTM tech­nol­o­gy gives our UAVs the brains to match their wings. Togeth­er, we are build­ing a safer, smarter future for Amer­i­can skies.” 

The release con­cludes, “The joint ven­ture is not only a pilot but also an impor­tant mile­stone on the path toward enabling the full inte­gra­tion of unmanned aer­i­al sys­tems into the nation­al air­space.”

For more infor­ma­tion

myskyeco.com

https://airwayz.co

(Top image: Air­wayz)

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