Airspace Link, an FAA-approved Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) provider, has announced that the Michigan State Capitol has selected the company’s AirHub® Portal Drone Operations Management System (DOMS) to provide comprehensive airspace security and drone operations management over the Michigan State Capitol complex in Lansing.
“The deployment establishes a vendor-agnostic common operating picture that integrates Remote ID and ADS-B detection sensors to monitor all aircraft activity in the airspace surrounding the Capitol,” said the company in a press release. “The system gives Capitol security personnel and Michigan Capitol Police real-time visibility into drone and aircraft operations, the ability to identify friend-or-foe aircraft, set automated UAS alerts, and coordinate responses across multiple law enforcement and public safety organizations. Following a successful proof of concept conducted in late 2025, the Capitol moved to a full system deployment in February 2026 and is now expanding its internal drone team to conduct infrastructure inspections of the Capitol complex, managing those operations through the AirHub platform.”
“Protecting the airspace over the Michigan State Capitol is not optional. It is a core security requirement, and until now we did not have the tools to do it effectively. AirHub gives our security team and our law enforcement partners a shared view of everything happening in the airspace around the Capitol complex, whether it’s an authorized inspection flight or an unknown aircraft that requires a coordinated response. Having that common operating picture across multiple agencies fundamentally changes how we protect this building and the people inside it,” said Robert Blackshaw, Executive Director of the Michigan State Capitol Commission.
AirHub’s DOMS platform aggregates data from multiple detection technologies – including RF detection, Remote ID, ADS-B, optical, radar, and acoustic sensors – into a single, integrated view. Because AirHub is sensor-agnostic, organizations can deploy the combination of detection hardware that best fits their environment without being locked into a single vendor’s ecosystem, and still maintaining a single pane of glass operating picture for all sensors, said the company in a press release.
For the Capitol building, a key requirement was the ability to support multi-organizational coordination. Capitol security operations routinely involve coordination between Michigan Capitol Police, Michigan State Police, the Lansing Police Department, and other responding agencies. AirHub provides a shared infrastructure that allows these organizations to access a common operating picture, share situational awareness in real time, and coordinate response actions – capabilities that are critical for protecting one of the state’s most visible and sensitive public buildings.
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