Simulyze’s operational intelligence (OI) application powered air traffic management, delivering real-time situational awareness to UAS operators in Alaska and North Dakota
RESTON, Va. – May 2, 2016 – Simulyze, Inc., a leading provider of operational intelligence (OI) technology and applications that empower both federal and commercial organizations, today announced the successful deployment of its Mission InsightTM OI application in support of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration’s (NASA) Technical Capability Level 1 testing of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) on April 19. Simulyze directly supported operations at two of six UAS test sites and provided simulated flights. Mission Insight was the only enterprise-level solution used that integrated all aspects of multiple flight operations into a single interface.
Mission Insight is a packaged, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) application that processes and analyzes large streams of data from disparate sources in real-time. Built on Simulyze’s proprietary OI platform, it provides UAS operators with a common operating picture (COP) in a customized graphical interface.
In the first and largest demonstration of its kind, NASA and operators from six Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) UAS test sites across the country flew 22 drones simultaneously during a three-hour test to assess line-of-sight, rural operations of NASA’s UAS traffic management (UTM) research platform. UAS operators at test sites in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Grand Forks, N.D., used Simulyze’s Mission Insight as a workflow tool to submit flight plans, monitor aircraft status and telemetry, activate flights and transmit aircraft position data to the UTM research platform, all from a single, web-based application.
“As the commercial UAS industry readies for take off in the U.S., we’re proud to participate in NASA’s UAS traffic management research and demonstrate the capabilities of Mission Insight, an enterprise-level, web-based workflow, data and user interface for UAS flight operations,” said Kevin Gallagher, president and CEO of Simulyze. “NASA declared the mission of Technical Capability Level 1 to be a success, and we look forward to continuing in the next research phase.”
Simulyze’s Space Act Agreement with NASA in support of UTM runs through December 2019. Its partnership with NASA’s Ames Research Center is focused on the research and development of a UTM system to enable and support safe and effective UAS operations.
In addition to live aircraft interacting with UTM, NASA introduced dozens of virtual aircraft into the same airspace to further enhance the test. This mixing of live flights with virtual flights provided additional insight for future tests to refine the UTM concept. Simulyze engineers used Mission Insight to provide simulated aircraft planning and telemetry data from five aircraft, emulated to appear as operating in North Carolina airspace.
Mission Insight builds on the success of Simulyze’s Flight Control® application, which was released in 2000 and was one of the first, comprehensive air, land and sea visualization tools for operators, commanders, mission planners and analysts. Over the last 15 years, Flight Control has been deployed across numerous organizations, including the U.S. military/Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community and homeland security.
To learn more about Mission Insight, visit www.simulyze.com.
About Simulyze
Simulyze, Inc. is a leading provider of operational intelligence (OI) technology and applications that empower both federal and commercial organizations to make better, more strategic decisions in real-time. Built on its OI platform, Simulyze’s flagship product, Mission Insight™, is the industry’s leading commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) application that makes complete situational awareness easy to attain and easy to deploy. It processes and analyzes large streams of data from disparate sources to provide air, land and sea operators, commanders and managers a common operating picture (COP) in a customized graphical interface. Since 2000, Simulyze’s OI technology has been deployed across numerous organizations worldwide, including the U.S. military/Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. intelligence community, commercial UAS applications and homeland security. For more information, visit www.simulyze.com or follow on Twitter @Simulyze.
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