What is it?

Orion is a real-time validation infrastructure for drone operations. It integrates distributed simulation, live field testing and hardware to evaluate end-to-end UAS systems at scale. Field test sites are limited in how much traffic, contingency behavior, and environmental complexity they can safely introduce, while offline or isolated simulations fall short of validating how hardware, software, communications, and operators perform together. Orion closes that gap by enabling challenging operational conditions, including dense traffic, degraded communications, dynamic obstacles, and emergency scenarios, to be introduced and exercised in real time alongside physical flight, helping pave the way for safe deployment at scale.

Who is using it?

Orion is currently being used for next-generation UTM development, multi-airport UAS test-site infrastructure, public-safety multi-UAS mission testing, airborne V2V evaluation, and end-to-end autonomy validation. Key users include test-site operators, flight test directors, autonomy engineers, safety and validation leads, OEMs, component providers, public-safety teams, and regulatory stakeholders.