Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) Ground Based Detect and Avoid team received the Air Traffic Control Association's annual Team Award for outstanding achievement for its collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, academic partners, and federal, state, and local government agencies to integrate drones safely into the National Airspace System.
Contracted by the U.S. Air Force through the Department of Transportation's Volpe Center, GBDAA SkyVision, the only mobile beyond visual line-of-sight system certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide drone operators with real-time aircraft display data, satisfying a key "see and avoid" requirement.
AMAI's Stephen Lloyd played a critical role in the team's safety analysis as part of the Volpe Center's team.
