Unmanned Aircraft Experience
- Avionics and Ground Control Station Systems Engineering
- Software Engineering including flight and mission critical software solutions
- Complete systems design, test, flight test, and production systems
- ISO 9001:2015 certified. Our Program Management experience spans numerous UAS platforms, avionics suites and sub-assemblies.
UAS Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) Services
- AES Subject Matter Experts provide Organizational, Intermediate & Depot Level maintenance support for UAS such as MQ-8B
- AES’s highly skilled technicians offer comprehensive troubleshooting and repair services for UAS components, ensuring peak operational readiness and performance.
- We have extensive experience managing both military and commercial unmanned aircraft programs.
AES stands ready to provide the avionics architecture design, guidance, navigation and control expertise, and hardware and software design expertise for government and military rotary wing and fixed wing OPV and unmanned systems.
Recent UAS
- MQ-8 Fire Scout
- K-MAX Helicopter
Kaman Aerospace Contracts
- Convert to OPV
- Integrate & Test for NAVAIR
- Testing & Demonstration for USMC
Scope
- Design & Develop
- Integrate
- Test
AES will optimize your Unmanned Systems
AES has been awarded 3 contracts by Kaman Aerospace to convert piloted helicopters to Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) and integrate & test an unmanned avionics suite for the U.S. Navy (NAVAIR)and the U.S. Marine Corps for testing and demonstration at Ft. Pickett, VA in 2021. AES is awarded a similar contract for Commercial Aviation.
Recent Contracts
Convert Aircraft
From Manned to OPV
Install avionics suite into a USMC aircraft to convert from manned aircraft to Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV)
Obstacle Avoidance System
KMAX Helicopter
Integrate an autonomous ground-based obstacle avoidance system into the commercial unmanned KMAX System.
LIDAR Systems
KMAX Helicopter
UAV uses a scanning LIDAR to map an area on the ground around the Unmanned KMAX, identify obstacles, and provide command inputs into the UFCS to avoid such obstacles.
Avionics Systems
Manned, UAS, OPV
The core of our approach includes: Design and Develop, Integrate and Test Unmanned Aerial Systems
OPV Version of K-MAX helicopter
With a mission radius of more than 100 miles, Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) operation & multi-load capabilities, the K-MAX UAS is the ideal solution for extending & enhancing expeditionary logistics
Kaman Aerospace
Year
2021
- Systems Engineering
- Hardware In The Loop Simulation(HITL)
- Airborne Systems Design
- Ground Control Station Design
- Aircraft Installation
- Hardware / Software Integration
- Aircraft Ground & Flight Testing
- Technical & Data
- Deliverables/Logistics
- Wiring Harness Design
Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) version of K-MAX Helicopter.
The AES contracts with Kaman Aerospace are to design, produce and
qualify an autopilot system for the KAMAN Aerospace’s Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) version of K-MAX Helicopter.