MTSI, PrecisionHawk Complete sUAS Air Traffic Management Assessment
Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI), working with its partners PrecisionHawk and Texas A&M Univ. Corpus Christi, have successfully completed multi-aircraft testing of PrecisionHawk’s Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety (LATAS) platform at the small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) test site at Port Mansfield, Texas. The two-week demonstration and integration was funded by the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate. MTSI says the testing included four sUAS and two manned aircraft demonstrating air traffic management technologies for pilot situational awareness in a total of 38 flown missions. The goal was to assess the current effectiveness of available technologies providing cloud-processed sUAS position reporting and crowd-based aircraft data sourcing, MTSI says. “This technology assessment further validates that there are effective solutions for entities, like the Department of Homeland Security, to safely operate manned and unmanned aircraft in a shared airspace today,” says Tyler Collins, vice president of LATAS at PrecisionHawk.
SureID Nears Completion of RAPIDGate Deployment to USMC Installations Nationwide
Identity management solutions provider SureID says its RAPIDGate solution is nearing implementation completion at all 24 U.S. Marine Corps installations across the U.S. RAPIDGate manages the identities and installation-specific access privileges of tens of thousands or program credential holders to military installations throughout the U.S. The program has been in place with USMC bases on the West Coast since 2006 and with the recent expansion across the East Coast, over 3,000 companies have enrolled in recent months. SureID, formerly Eid Passport, says that RAPIDGate program participants can, with one credential, access any installation where the program is implemented so long as the company they represent has been sponsored by the installation or a tenant command and is approved by the installation commanding officer.