Sponsor/Exhibitor Listing

Silver Sponsor

  • Boeing

    Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners, defense, space and security systems, and service provider of aftermarket support. As America’s biggest manufacturing exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in more than 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training.

Bronze Sponsors

  • MITRE

    MITRE’s mission-driven teams are dedicated to solving problems for a safer world. Through our public-private partnerships and federally funded R&D centers, we work across government and in partnership with industry to tackle challenges to the safety, stability, and well-being of our nation.

  • Merlin Labs

    Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Denver as well as flight test facilities in Mojave, CA and Kerikeri, New Zealand, Merlin is building a platform-agnostic advanced automation system to perpetuate a resilient air network.

  • Daedalean

    Daedalean is building machine-learning-based avionics systems for civil aircraft today and advanced aerial mobility tomorrow. The company, with offices in Switzerland, the EU, and the US, has a team of 150+ people, including 19 Ph. D.s and 17 pilots, with expertise in machine learning, aviation-grade software engineering, flight testing, safety assessment, and certification.

    Daedalean, in collaboration with Avidyne, is working to certify and bring to the market the first AI-based certified product for General Aviation: Pilot Eye™, a visual traffic detection source capable of detecting non-cooperative traffic.

    Daedalean's applications include non-GNSS positioning and navigation, landing guidance for fixed-wing aircraft, and vertical landing guidance for rotor aircraft.

    The company has established partnerships with aviation regulators and published joint reports with EASA and the FAA, paving the way for certifying machine-learning systems for safety-critical aviation applications.

  • Mark III Systems

    The Enterprise Full Stack Partner

    Full stack can mean different things to a lot of different people — anything from pancakes (our favorite!), to developers, to enterprise tech stacks of all kinds.

    For Mark III and how we envision the channel partner of the future, we extend the concept of “full stack” into describing how we’ve organically built our unique organization over the past few years to help enterprises, institutions, and service providers succeed and thrive in the era of digital transformation.

    In a world where open source “everything” has enabled virtually thousands more combinations of IT infrastructure and software stacks that can be composed and integrated together to build out key services for your customers and workforce, it’s important not only to understand IT infrastructure technologies and software capabilities, but also how to “glue” them together with great code, automation, and design.

    It’s in response to this dynamically shifting need from clients and partners as to why Mark III has evolved our team to a full stack approach to incorporate data scientists, developers, DevOps, and system architects and engineers.

Exhibitor

  • Great River Technology

    Great River Technology (GRT) is a global leader in high-performance digital video and data development tools and services for the mil/aero industry. Since its founding in 1996, it has developed partnerships with leading commercial and military companies worldwide to include Airbus, Boeing, Rockwell Collins, Thales, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Elbit, COMAC, BAE, General Dynamics, and many others.

    GRT develops products that simplify the design and implementation of mission-critical systems for cockpit displays, mission and video processors, infrared sensors, optical cameras, and flight simulators. Design and research labs, production lines, MRO facilities, flight-test and production aircraft rely on our products.

    GRT has been instrumental in the development of the ARINC 818 Standard and Protocol since its conception in 2006 and has continued to be the industry editor for all revisions to date.  The ARINC 818: the Avionics Digital Video Bus (ADVB) video interface and protocol standard manages high-bandwidth, low-latency, and uncompressed digital video transmission.  Today it is the proven commercial standard and de facto military standard for high-performance video systems, used on every manner of aircraft including helicopters, large passenger aircraft, military fighters, tankers, and transport aircraft.

    Great River Technology is the global leader in ARINC 818 and HOTLink II™ products and has helped design 100s of mission-critical ARINC 818 capable systems and offers the only comprehensive product suite for the entire lifecycle of your ARINC 818 enabled equipment.

  • Honeywell

    Products and services from Honeywell Aerospace Technologies are found on virtually every commercial, defense and space aircraft. The Aerospace Technologies business unit builds aircraft engines, cockpit and cabin electronics, wireless connectivity systems, mechanical components and more. Its hardware and software solutions create more fuel-efficient aircraft, more direct and on-time flights and safer skies and airports.

  • Mirabilis

    Mirabilis Design provides Digital Twins solution for the architecture trade-off, functional validation and failure analysis of flights missions, avionics, radars, software-defined systems and infotainment.  This Digital Twin solution is used throughout the design process from concept to end-of-life by enabling both the shift-left and shift-right methodology.  The product, VisualSim, uses a system-level modeling and simulation software with a large library of electronics, software, network and semiconductors components.

  • Core Avionics and Industrial, Inc.

    CoreAVI’s comprehensive software suite enables development and deployment of complete safety critical solutions for aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications requiring certification to the highest safety levels coupled with full lifecycle support.

    CoreAVI’s solutions are used to develop and deliver both graphics and compute applications including safe autonomy, machine vision and AI in commercial and military avionics systems. CoreSuite 2.0 includes AI application development tools, libraries, and a deployment infrastructure that includes its VkCore® SC implementation enabling high-performance compute acceleration as well as ComputeCore™ - CoreAVI’s AI/ML acceleration library that provide APIs for BLAS, FFT, and a neural network inference engine.

    CoreAVI software is used in safe, reliable, and certifiable systems including avionics flight decks for fixed and rotary wing aircraft, crew displays, and ground control stations. CoreAVI’s suite of Safe AI tools, libraries and open standards meet FACE and MOSA specifications. Our abstraction layer sets the stage for the future of software defined embedded systems, and we support a range of real-time operating systems, graphics chipsets, and hardware platforms. Certification evidence is available to DO-17B Level A and DO-254 DAL A.

  • Parallax

    Parallax Advanced Research is a 501(c)(3) private nonprofit research institute that tackles global challenges through strategic partnerships with government, industry, and academia. It accelerates innovation, addresses critical global issues, and develops groundbreaking ideas with its partners. With offices in Ohio and Virginia, Parallax aims to deliver new solutions and speed them to market. In 2023, Parallax and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit research institute, entered an affiliation to drive innovation and technological advancements in Ohio and for the Nation. The Ohio Aerospace Institute plays a pivotal role in advancing the aerospace industry in Ohio and the Nation by fostering collaborations between universities, aerospace industries, and government organizations and managing aerospace research, education, and workforce development projects.

Drone Competition Sponsor

  • SwRI

    Southwest Research Institute is a premier independent, nonprofit research and development organization using multidisciplinary services to provide solutions to some of the world’s most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, our client-focused, client-funded organization occupies more than 1,500 acres, providing more than 2.3 million square feet of laboratories, test facilities, workshops, and offices for approximately 3,000 employees who perform contract work for government and industry clients.

Media Sponsors

  • AFuzion

    AFuzion is North America’s largest aviation certification services company. Working with 80% of the world’s largest 500 aviation development companies, AFuzion provides aviation certification Frameworks, Engineering Development, Training, Mentoring, Auditing, Gap Analysis, and formal Certification per FAA, EASA, Military, and most worldwide certification authorities.  Specialty areas include DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, ARP4761, DO-278A, DO-200B, DO-326A.  Learn more at www.afuzion.com