The time has come to announce the winners and runners up for the 2021 ATM/UTM Awards. Thank you to all of our judges for the time they took to consider each category and select the top programmes. We congratulate everyone who took the stage today in the FABEC Ops Theatre at this year’s World ATM Congress.
Overall Excellence: Airbus, NATS, DSNA, NAVCANADA, EUROCONTROL, IAA - fello'fly, wake energy retrieval to boost environmental performance on long haul flights
ATM Innovation:
Winner: Airbus, NATS, DSNA, NAVCANADA, EUROCONTROL, IAA - fello'fly, wake energy retrieval to boost environmental performance on long haul flights
Runner Up: AustroControl - ESTC - Enhanced Surveillance Tower Control
Upper Airspace:
Winner: UAVOS, Inc. and Stratodynamics Inc - HiDRON
Runner Up: EUROCONTROL, Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) and Partners -
Customer Initiative/ATM Portal
UTM Innovation:
Winner: Droniq GmbH, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH - Europe’s first U-space implementation
Runner Up: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AirMap, AiRXOS, Alaska Center for UAS Integration, Amazon Prime Air, ANRA Technologies, Avision, Collins Aerospace, Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence & Innovation, Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership, Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems, New York UAS Test Site, Northern Plains UAS Test Site, OneSky, Simulyze, Uber, Wing Aviation - UAS traffic management team
UAS Detect and Avoid:
Winner: America Aerospace Technologies, Inc and OneSky Systems, Inc. - Airborne Detect and Avoid Solution for UAS: Design and Implementation with Real-Time Avoidance, UTM Integration, and True BVLOS Operation
Runner Up: D-Fend - Enforce Air
UTM/ATM Communications:
Winner: American Aerospace Technologies, Inc., Blue Sky Network and Iridium Communications - Global SATCOM based C2 solution for UAS in the NAS
Runner Up: VANTIS/uAvionix - First implementation of dedicated aviation grade C2 network for UAS
