Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Honeywell, will jointly develop a sense-and-avoid (SAA) capability for IAI’s Heron family of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). Approved for funding from the Bi-national Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, the system will be demonstrated for the first time on the Heron medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAS platform in 2018. BIRD selected the team BIRD selected the team following a competitive review process that evaluated projects from many companies.
