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A world-class small business specializing in rapid design, implementation, and testing of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems technologies for the unmanned vehicles industry. Our staff of highly qualified aerospace engineers and retired military leaders has positioned us as a small company systems integrator - offering the knowledge, tools, facilities, and innovation required to rapidly develop, integrate and test complex autonomous systems. Equipped with know-how, dedication, and rapid design processes and tools, we consistently achieve early program success and are considered by our customers to be among the industry's best small company systems integrators.
Geneva Aerospace continues to develop a system that greatly simplifies the control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for remote operators. With this new UAV control technology, unskilled operators with no piloting or aviation experience can fully control an unmanned aerial vehicle. This control simplicity enables a larger community of military operators, beyond the small group of highly trained aviators, to control UAVs, while at the same time allowing a single operator to manage multiple UAVs at one time. This original technology focus has grown exponentially. The result has been an entire family of new UAV technologies that are currently being moved to production, transitioning to DoD and other government agency programs, and adapting to larger scale advanced research through DARPA.
1. Geneva was funded to integrate its variable autonomy control system (VACS) software into SDS International's LitFlite simulation to perform Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) Human-Systems Interface (HIS) research under a program funded by the AFRL Human Effectiveness Directorate. 2. An adaptation of Variable Autonomy Control System (VACS) flight control software package, supporting data link system, and supporting ground control station software package has been inserted into the Navy's Affordable Weapon (low-cost cruise missile) program, which is slated to begin EM&D in the '04 to '05 time frame. 3. Another adaptation of VACS was picked up by the Office of Naval Research for use in the development of an autonomous "see & avoid" (air collision avoidance) system for UAVs to support the integration of UAVs into our National Airspace. ONR has funded the integration of VACS multi-vehicle control ground control station software package and supporting synthetic vision displays into the Navy's Tactical Control Station (TCS). Demonstrations of this VACS enhanced TCS are slated to begin this summer. 4. DARPA's Information Exploitation Office (DARPA/IXO) has picked up VACS to provide the underlying multi-vehicle control system architecture to support advanced research in multi-vehicle control of heterogeneous UAV teams to support next generation technologies for Urban Area Warfare. This work involves cooperative control of diverse UAV teams and autonomous tracking and following of ground moving targets in urban terrain. To date, the results of this AFRL SBIR has generated over $6 million in captured business for Geneva and continues to grow exponentially each year. The technology has been inserted into several classified and unclassified development programs and is already targeted for an entire family of emerging programs involving the development of next-generation network-centric UAV systems including persistent ISR systems, Hunter-Killer systems, and loitering munitions.
David Duggan
GENEVA AEROSPACE, INC.
4318 Sunbelt Dr.
Addison, Texas 75001
Phone: (214) 420-4376
Website: http://www.genaero.com/
Email: dduggan@genaero.com
