Elevating the Future
Detroit, MI
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9 years ago, on Sept 21, 2017, a drone flown beyond line of sight struck a U.S. Army Black Hawk on a UN General Assembly security patrol over NY Harbor. It was the first confirmed drone collision with a crewed aircraft in the U.S.
See-and-avoid isn't enough. We need a national electronic conspicuity mandate.
#DroneSafety #UTM
Happy Labor Day from ASX!
Grateful for the team behind ASX. We’re a focused crew working toward a shared vision: safer, more connected mobility.
From military ranges to the roads and skies here at home, we’re building the infrastructure to make it possible.
Taking the long weekend to reset before what’s shaping up to be a very big fall for ASX.
More soon.
Airport deconfliction can’t stop at the airspace. Aircraft, UAS and ground vehicles all need to know where each other are in real time.
At Detroit City Airport (KDET), we’re already proving the technology to help prevent these collisions.
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Week 1 of Northern Strike done.
Complex airspace + shared picture = safe operations. Military aviation proves it every day.
Bringing that standard below 400 ft over American cities — starting with Detroit.
Northern Strike 26-2 kicks off in northern Michigan next week.
Military aviation solved the shared-airspace-picture problem decades ago.
Civil low-altitude airspace is next — and the buildout has already started in Detroit.
Safe skies to everyone training up north.
The rule that governs every UAS mission set, defense or civil:
You cannot respond to what you cannot see.
Awareness first. Everything else follows. That's the dual-use case for Electronic Conspicuity.
Michigan's brand for 100+ years: proving ground.
Cars. Connected vehicles. And every August, the nation's premier joint readiness exercise in the skies up north.
We build AeroNet in Detroit on purpose.
Military exercises train for jammed links and denied GPS for a reason:
Any airspace system that depends on a single link is a system waiting to fail.
Edge architecture = graceful degradation, not central collapse. It's a choice you make on day one.
"Doesn't radar see drones?"
Not below rooftop level. Not in clutter. And never with identity or intent.
Electronic Conspicuity flips it: aircraft announce themselves instead of waiting to be found. That's the direction US DOT is heading — and the system we build.
Below 400 ft, most aircraft are electronically invisible to each other.
This August, Michigan hosts the nation's largest reserve-component readiness exercise — in the largest open training airspace east of the Mississippi.
The low-altitude visibility problem is the same everywhere. Thread incoming this month.
Electronic Conspicuity works best when everyone builds toward the same picture.
AeroNet is a member of the EC working group at the US DOT Volpe Center — helping inform the national conversation on connected airspace, and building hardware ready for it.
#ElectronicConspicuity #USDOT #Volpe #AeroNet #UAS #ConnectedMobility
Congratulations to @jobyaviation and @Toyota. Thank you you for demonstrating the art of the possible when it comes to innovation in air mobility. God speed, and we look forward to your arrival in @detroitmi . We could kick your asses if we (#DetroitAutomotve ) had some balls.. more to come I’m sure.. come soon..
Today we're announcing the initial phase of a strategic manufacturing alliance with @ToyotaMotorCorp, establishing a joint venture to help realize air mobility for all.
This brings together Joby's pioneering work in electric aviation and Toyota's globally recognized expertise in production systems and operational excellence.
The Strategic Alliance will focus first on building the groundwork for commercial production and advancing manufacturing excellence, with an emphasis on productivity, quality, and cost.
Toyota has been a trusted partner of Joby since @Toyota_Ventures first invested in 2017 and this deepened relationship is a major step toward bringing our electric air taxi to communities around the world.
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Great to see NASA/Cornell pushing tactical V2V deconfliction forward. We’re tackling the same problem from the air-ground side with AeroNet UTM — live C-V2X deconfliction demo’d at KDET in May. More validation in this space is good for the whole industry.
NASA-funded Project Orion develops V2V tactical deconfliction for autonomous drone operations unmannedairspace.info/uncate…
Drone strike on JetBlue Flight 948 at ~3,000 ft on approach to JFK.
This incident shows why #ElectronicConspicuity is no longer optional.
AeroNet EdgeNode delivers real-time peer-to-peer C-V2X tactical deconfliction (<100 ms latency) so drones and manned aircraft can see and avoid each other directly — even without reliable cellular or cloud coverage.
Time to accelerate EC deployment for higher-altitude and BVLOS operations.
@FAANews @AeroNetUTM @iFlyASX #DroneSafety #UTM #Aviation
FAA Statement
The pilot of JetBlue Airlines Flight 948 reported striking a drone at approximately 3,000 feet altitude while on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. local time on Monday, June 29. A post-flight inspection did not reveal any damage to the aircraft. The FAA will investigate. Contact the airline for more information.
This information is preliminary and subject to change.
Electronic Conspicuity isn't a whitepaper for us — it's deployed.
The AeroNet EdgeNode is live across Detroit: KDET, DSPL, and Michigan Central, delivering real sub-100ms air-ground tactical deconfliction.
EC, operational. In a working American city.
#ElectronicConspicuity #EdgeNode #AeroNet #Detroit #UAS #MichiganCentral
