Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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GE Aviation will integrate Auterion’s Enterprise PX4 operating system on GE’s Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) avionics platform. The teaming provides a full-stack solution including autopilot, application computing hardware, flight management, safety management, and integration.

 


Under the partnership, GE is supplying the avionics hardware, application computing, flight management, and integration into airframes, while Auterion is providing Enterprise PX4, the operating system that runs on the vehicle, in the cloud and the ground station. The core architecture supports developers through global open-software standards, while maintaining an independent and authoritative safety controller, and enables commercial beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) within complex airspace and obstacle environments.

 


Flight testing of the hardware and software took place over the last three weeks at Reno-Stead Airport in Nevada. “The combined solution will significantly reduce barriers commercial cargo drones face flying in manned airspace or inspection drones to flying in urban areas,” said Auterion co-founder Kevin Sartori. Auterion’s software supports flight peripherals and camera integrations, data networking, precision navigation, and compliance with traffic management. Auterion software is developed on top of the PX4 and ROS 2 open source robotics software projects.&nbsp;

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