“Wisk Advances Autonomy Capabilities, SkyGrid to Become a Subsidiary”

Wisk Aero has announced this week that Sky­Grid, an AAM Third-Par­ty Ser­vice Provider (TSP), is to become a sub­sidiary of Wisk, reports Busi­ness Wire.

Through a strate­gic part­ner­ship, the two par­ties will work togeth­er “to address the crit­i­cal chal­lenges nec­es­sary for expand­ing safe, effi­cient and autonomous flight and col­lab­o­rate on their shared goal of bring­ing Wisk’s Gen­er­a­tion 6 air­craft to mar­ket,” explains the release.

Wisk, a whol­ly-owned sub­sidiary of Boe­ing, is present­ly mov­ing through Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion with the FAA for its Gen 6. 

Sky­Grid will sup­port Wisk’s future oper­a­tions with bespoke dig­i­tal solu­tions that enhance “real-time sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness, seam­less air­space inte­gra­tion, and advanced deci­sion-mak­ing,” con­tin­ues the release. These capa­bil­i­ties not only enable safe oper­a­tions, but are essen­tial for scal­ing autonomous avi­a­tion as demand con­tin­ues to grow.

Sebastien Vigneron, CEO of Wisk, com­ment­ed, “To unlock the full poten­tial of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, we must also have advanced air­space.” He con­tin­ued, “By col­lab­o­rat­ing with Sky­Grid, we’re ver­ti­cal­ly inte­grat­ing our own air­craft auton­o­my tech­nolo­gies with their estab­lished air­space automa­tion capa­bil­i­ties, accel­er­at­ing the path to safer, more effi­cient air trav­el in the nation­al air­space sys­tem.”

This part­ner­ship will be instru­men­tal in enabling Auto­mat­ed Flight Rules, a vital com­po­nent for the safe and effi­cient inte­gra­tion of autonomous air­craft into the nation­al air­space.

Wisk Aero Gen 6 Autonomous Air­craft

Sky­Grid, with its “air­craft-agnos­tic plat­form,” will con­tin­ue to sup­port a tar­get­ed exter­nal cus­tomer base across air­space inte­gra­tion, autonomous avi­a­tion and Air Traf­fic Man­age­ment (ATM) automa­tion. By lever­ag­ing its advanced tech­nol­o­gy and expe­ri­ence, the com­pa­ny enables scal­able, inter­op­er­a­ble solu­tions that serve a wide range of vehi­cle types and mis­sion pro­files.

Jia Xu, CEO of Sky­Grid, remarked, “Our align­ment marks an impor­tant step in the advance­ment of autonomous avi­a­tion. By deploy­ing our com­pre­hen­sive air­space inte­gra­tion capa­bil­i­ties with Wisk’s tech­nol­o­gy, we are paving a path to safe, effi­cient and increas­ing­ly autonomous oper­a­tions for all.” Adding, “Togeth­er, we are doing the hard, prac­ti­cal and nec­es­sary work, to unlock avi­a­tion auton­o­my and dig­i­tal air­space.”

Back­ground

Based in Austin, Texas, Sky­Grid builds high-assur­ance third-par­ty ser­vices to enable the safe oper­a­tion and inte­gra­tion of autonomous air­craft. The com­pa­ny also acts as the oper­a­tional pro­gres­sion for AAM, inte­gra­tion and man­ag­ing data, infra­struc­ture, access and traf­fic to sup­port scaled oper­a­tions.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://wisk.aero/

https://www.skygrid.com/

(Top Image: Wisk/Skygrid)

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