Program
Toward an NDAA-compliant radio link and controller
- Status
- In development
- Program type
- Internal development
- Program context
- Being built. Not available to order. Our own program, built because we judged it was needed.
Reliable video, telemetry and control links to replace systems that depend on a foreign supply chain.
An Ascendant program. Team experience, including work delivered through Guinn Partners and prior companies, is on the Our Work page.
Challenge
Why customers come to us for this
Ascendant AI has identified this as a critical gap in the U.S. drone ecosystem. Customers need a link they are allowed to fly, with the performance they already expect from the commercial systems they are being asked to give up.
Ascendant Drone Radio (DUO)Work performed
- Independent definition of the requirements a compliant link has to meet
- A compliant radio module of our own design first
- Early demonstrations on a compliant tablet or ground station
- Our own controller once the link is proven
- Compliance documentation to go with the hardware
- Ascendant’s role
- Ours end to end, from the requirement definition onwards.
- Evidence, attribution and permissions
- In development, so nothing about the link is proven yet. The requirement definition and the compliance approach are available under an agreement.
Outcome
What we are building toward
A clean-sheet link built to meet NDAA requirements, inspired by the performance buyers already treat as the baseline, and a controller after it.
The other programs
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Modular FPV UAS
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MoonTower for Drones
The software and connected-device layer under drone operations: telemetry, fleet and device management, over-the-air updates, support and reporting.