Sagetech Avionics and MatrixSpace Collaborate to Enable Advanced Detect and Avoid Solutions

‍Bingen, WA and Burlington, MA (May 20, 2025) – Aerospace technology provider Sagetech Avionics has selected AI sensing system innovator MatrixSpace to support its advanced airspace solutions. Sagetech Avionics empowers safe flight in crewed and uncrewed aircraft with certifiable situational awareness solutions, serving military, public and commercial organizations.

Both companies will be exhibiting at XPONENTIAL 2025 May 20-22, in Houston Texas: Sagetech Avionics (booth #2031) and MatrixSpace (booth #1520).

MatrixSpace and Sagetech Avionics recently partnered to win an HSWERX award from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for their work on advanced air detection supporting uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) operations. The solution has potential applications across a variety of mission environments, including the DHS Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency.

Quote from Rudy Johnson, Director Business Development at Sagetech Avionics
"Our mission is to deliver low-SWaP certified avionics solutions that enable safe, scalable airspace integration. To achieve this requires a sophisticated level of airspace awareness informed by high-performance sensors. MatrixSpace is meeting the challenge, setting new standards in precision detection, making them key to meeting our customers’ demanding requirements.”

Quote from Lori DeMatteis, Chief Revenue Officer at MatrixSpace
“As autonomous aviation becomes ubiquitous, the need to integrate it safely into the National Airspace is key. Working with Sagetech Avionics has demonstrated their commitment not only to high customer standards but also reaching for the most advanced, innovative solutions possible to achieve this.”  

The DHS project sought to identify small UAS (sUAS) with onboard sensors that meet Federal Aviation Administration guidelines for safe Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations. Enabling smaller UAS (Group III and below) to operate safely in the NAS with BVLOS capabilities significantly enhances their ability to conduct comprehensive monitoring of secure, often large and remote locations such as borders, border crossings and other points of entry. Due to their compact size and advanced capabilities, MatrixSpace Radar and Sagetech’s detect and avoid (DAA) onboard ACAS DAA computer were selected to support safe BVLOS operations.

MatrixSpace provides affordable, AI-enhanced sensor solutions for situational awareness, unlocking advanced, large-scale drone operations, and protecting infrastructure and public gatherings from security threats. Its solutions detect objects immediately with high degrees of accuracy, allowing for rapid response and countermeasures. Its products combine cutting-edge radar sensors with additional technologies and AI-edge processing to sense, detect, and classify objects in any outdoor situation while enabling comprehensive compliance reporting.

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