London, UK & Geneva, Switzerland: NATS Providers, the industrial arm of the UK’s main ANSP and Altitude Angel, a worldwide chief in unified site visitors administration (UTM) and creators of the 165 mile UK drone superhighway, have chosen the primary day of Airspace World Expo in Geneva to announce a strategic industrial partnership which can revolutionise the way in which the sky is managed for brand spanking new airspace customers. 

The mix of Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM suite of applied sciences and NATS Providers’ main airspace administration experience will allow aggressive and progressive providers to combine new airspace customers, whereas sustaining protected operations for its current industrial aviation clients.

This deal may even see GuardianUTM Flight Approval Providers being deployed at some NATS-controlled airports later in 2024, permitting for digitally managed UTM flight requests and approvals and enhanced situational consciousness.

The partnership may even speed up Altitude Angel’s roll-out of its transformative ARROW know-how, which when fused with its GuardianUTM platform, detects and identifies all airspace customers, enabling drones to fly BVLOS and share the airspace with crewed aviation safely and securely.

On the strategic partnership, Man Adams, Managing Director of NATS Providers, mentioned: “Supporting the event of New Airspace Customers by airspace integration and the supply of latest providers is considered one of our strategic priorities. This partnership with Altitude Angel is a milestone in UK aviation, bringing collectively the know-how, operational experience and innovation that can permit us to additional help the trade.

“The mix of Altitude Angel’s UTM applied sciences and NATS’ deep understanding of air site visitors and airspace administration will permit us to additional embrace the mixing of this new era of airspace customers, whereas additionally persevering with to ship the very highest requirements of security and effectivity.”

Richard Parker, Altitude Angel, CEO and founder, added: “By means of this alliance, NATS and Altitude Angel convey collectively the unparalleled power of air site visitors management experience with the world main innovation of UTM.

“This partnership brings collectively in-depth data, real-world expertise, and, most significantly, a shared imaginative and prescient for a future the place the skies will not be simply open however interconnected, the place conventional and rising aviation seamlessly coexist. Collectively, we are going to create an airspace which displays the concord of collaboration and the promise of a safer, extra sustainable aviation future for all. We’re happy our management and innovation has been recognised by NATS as vital to not solely its future, however to the way forward for UK airspace.”