ResilienX has been selected for a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award to advance its ORION airspace coordination system for wildfire response, disaster management and emergency operations.
The 18-month programme will mature ORION from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4 to TRL 7 and demonstrate the system in New York’s Adirondack region.
ORION is designed to coordinate autonomous and semi-autonomous uncrewed aircraft by connecting drones, sensors, communications, command-and-control systems and mission intelligence. The system provides a shared common operational picture and is designed to maintain operations in communications-degraded environments under a human-on-the-loop model, according to ResilienX.
The Phase II programme will integrate Vigilare AI’s TitanOps platform, Hoplynk’s resilient edge networking, cooperative airspace sensing, Pierce Aerospace’s Remote ID sensor and OneSky’s UAS Service Supplier (USS) platform.
Two operational demonstrations in the Adirondack region will be supported by NUAIR’s flight-test infrastructure and regulatory expertise.
The work forms part of NASA’s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project and also supports research under the agency’s Airspace Operations and Safety Program, Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign and System-Wide Safety programme.
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