Every aircraft in your airspace. Identified, contextualized, and assessed - before you have to ask.
Empyrean's Air Domain Intelligence and UAS Traffic Management (UTM) eliminates the cognitive load of airspace management. Every aircraft track - manned or unmanned - is continuously assessed against the full aeronautical context: airspace classification, active restrictions, registered owner, transponder integrity, behavioral anomalies, and Remote ID authorization status. One actionable intelligence picture for the entire air domain.
The Problem
You're watching ADS-B tracks cross your screen. One of them just entered a Temporary Flight Restriction over a wildfire. Another is squawking 1200 at 400 feet in Class B airspace with no LAANC authorization. A third has been orbiting a critical infrastructure site for 45 minutes. Without context, a moving dot is just a moving dot. Your operators are manually cross-referencing FAA registries, checking NOTAM bulletins, computing airspace boundaries in their heads, and hoping they notice the anomaly before it matters. That takes 20-30 minutes per aircraft of interest. For a busy airspace with dozens of tracks, it's operationally impossible.
Who Has This Problem
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Platform Integration
Air Domain Intelligence & UTM is built on the same platform architecture as every other Empyrean domain. Every aircraft track is automatically enriched - registration, regulatory history, sanctions screening, and live weather context - without manual queries. The platform is architected for Part 146 ADSP (Automated Data Service Provider) compliance, with Level 2 FAA engagement in progress. The Policy Engine evaluates compound conditions: an aircraft entering a TFR, a transponder degrading, weather minimums breached, or a drone operating without authorization all fire the same automated workflow architecture. Environmental data, weather observations, reference layers, and regulatory databases are stored locally - the platform functions identically in internet-connected, DDIL, and fully air-gapped environments. Aircraft owners are screened against the unified TFER screening engine (OFAC, EU, UK, UN, OpenSanctions - 500K+ entities). The same spatiotemporal data fabric that powers maritime route risk scoring drives the 21-dimension UAS Safety Risk Management assessment.
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