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Advanced Air Mobility + Unmanned Systems Quick Facts
Workforce
Oklahoma’s extensive education system, business development team and workforce organizations collaborate to ensure there’s a pipeline of talent to get started and keep going.
- 1st university in the U.S. with a PhD program focused on UAS design – Oklahoma State University
- 9 CareerTech centers provide aerospace- focused certification, training and testing
- 10 CareerTech centers offer a variety of UAS and Drone courses
- 6 CareerTech centers offer FAA Certification/ Testing for commercial and/or hobby use
- 80+ high schools are teaching the AOPA curriculum which includes a UAS pathway
Incentive Programs
Oklahoma offers competitive tax rates and attractive incentives for businesses. The following incentives are often utilized by aerospace companies.
Relocation + Expansion
Looking to relocate to or expand in Oklahoma? Tell our team more about your project.
Oklahoma’s UAS Areas/Test Sites & Assets
Oklahoma features more than 845,000 acres of UAS test sites and numerous assets to advance research & development, testing and more.
Areas/Test Sites
1 – Camp Gruber Joint Maneuver Training Center
The Oklahoma National Guard’s premier 33,000-acre maneuver training center comprised of live fire ranges, urban operations training sites and more; home of the Oklahoma National Guard’s Counter Unmanned Systems Training Program and mission integration development efforts
2 – Choctaw Nation Emerging Aviation Technology Center
A 44,000+-acre facility for the development of UAS/AAM research & development, testing and evaluation; a Lead Participant in the FAA’s BEYOND program, collaborating with the FAA and other industry partners to safely test and validate emerging aviation technologies
3 – Legion Airfield
Oklahoma State University-owned property located at the north end of Fort Sill’s 5601 restricted airspace and includes a 2,200-foot paved runway; capable of group 1-3 UAS operations, experimentation and demonstration which support Fort Sill and OSU/ OAIRE UAS
One of 14 FAA-licensed spaceports in the U.S., a public-use airport and 1,100-acre industrial airpark with facilities in place for aerospace testing, research & development, flights and launches; features only FAA-approved space flight corridor not in restricted or military airspace, an air traffic control tower, and a telemetry & monitoring room designed for mission control during flight testing, launch, tracking and recovery
5 – Oklahoma State University Unmanned Aircraft Flight Station and BVLOS Corridor
The Unmanned Aircraft Flight Station at OSU is a dedicated UAS flight development and test facility near Stillwater, Okla. Research opportunities include UAS Design, Aerodynamics, Flight Path Management and Airspace Integration, Sense and Avoid, Controls, Structures, Aeroacoustics, Propulsion, Communications and Operations, and Sensors and Payloads.
The Osage Nation’s aerospace technology innovation zone and droneport is ideally suited for autonomous and robotics research & development, as well as production.
7 – OSU Unmanned Aircraft Flight Station
A flight test facility connecting Oklahoma State University’s Unmanned Aircraft Flight Station (currently OAIRE’S primary UAS flight test facility) with the Osage Nation Skyway36 Droneport, and eventually link to downtown Tulsa
Assets
8 – FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Provides critical products and services that touch all aspects of aviation; directly supports the safe and efficient operations of the national and international aviation system; trains 76,000 students annually
9 – Fires Innovation Science & Technology Accelerator (FISTA)
A secure acceleration hub leveraging collaborations and partnerships with Fort Sill, two cross-functional teams, and municipal, state, and federal authorities with a STEM center and anechoic chamber FISTA facilitates research & development, and testing solutions
10 – Ft. Sill
Home of the Army’s Fires Center of Excellence, the foundation of the Army’s artillery and air & missile defense, the Army Futures Command Long Range Precision Fires and Air and Missile Defense cross-functional teams, and the Joint Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Academy
11 – OSU CUAS COE
OAIRE coordinates efforts to rapidly develop and test counter drone capabilities and the ability of the military to attract a skilled, cleared and trained workforce to develop and test this technology
12 – OSU Launchpad Research Center
OAIRE supports advanced air mobility research and entrepreneurship
13 – OSU OAIRE
The center of gravity for a statewide initiative to answer industry and federal demand for innovation, excellence and expertise in aerospace
14 – OU OADII
Brings together the full range of the University of Oklahoma’s capabilities and resources to provide holistic solutions addressing aerospace, defense, and global security challenges
15 – OU Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station
A 350-acre site owned and operated by the University of Oklahoma; an established, approved sUAS CoA has been in continuous operation since 2013, operating surface to 5,000 AGL in class G and E airspace
16 – OU Radar Innovations Laboratory
Includes a large microwave lab, a high-bay garage for mobile radar platforms, prototype fabrication facilities, a fully stocked machine shop, two precision anechoic chambers, an experimental observation deck, state-of-the-art classroom and seminar space, and a unique “Ideas Room” for fostering collaboration and innovation
- Unmanned Systems Brochure
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Rob Wilcox, Chief Petty Officer, Navy (Ret.)
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