ResilienX today announced that it has joined M-air as a founding member. “M-air, launched by Mcity at the University of Michigan, is a public-private research partnership accelerating the development of the low-altitude economy, the rapidly growing class of commercial activities operating below 3,000 feet, including drone delivery, urban air mobility, agricultural services, and beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations,” said the companies in a press release.
“As a founding member, ResilienX will provide M-air with the open data integration capabilities required to translate research into operational reality,” said ResilienX. “The company’s vendor-neutral AAM OptiX® platform and FRAIHMWORK® in-time aviation safety management system have become foundational components of BVLOS environments and digital airspace programs across the country, with deployments supporting NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Air Force, and a growing list of state and commercial operators.”
“M-air is positioned to become one of the most important proving grounds for the low-altitude economy in the United States, and we are honored to help shape it from day one,” said Andrew Carter, CEO of ResilienX. “Realizing the potential of drones and advanced air mobility depends on more than great aircraft. It depends on the digital infrastructure that lets disparate systems share data safely, on the safety case that makes scaled operations defensible to regulators, and on the operational evidence that turns research into routine flight. That is the layer we deliver, and it is the layer M-air’s members and partners can now build on.”
M-air is supporting the development of a BVLOS flight corridor running between U-M’s Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses and Michigan Central in Detroit. By integrating ResilienX’s data exchange and safety assurance tooling into M-air’s research environment, member organizations gain a practical, single integration path for connecting radar, UTM, weather, command and control, and surveillance providers, with audit-ready logs and FAA-aligned evidence generated during operations.
“This new group of companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations are investing a combination of cash and in-kind services to join Mcity to advance the state-of-the-art for autonomous vehicles and drones,” said Greg McGuire, Managing Director of Mcity. ResilienX joins eight additional new members in the latest cohort, alongside an expanded collaboration between M-air and the Applied Research Institute of Bloomington, Indiana, that broadens the partnership’s reach into FAA-aligned UAS research, eVTOL certification, and low-altitude operational predictability.
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ResilienX Named Founding Member of M-air, U-M’s Low-Altitude Economy Research Partnership