Terra Drone's Group Company, Unifly, Successfully Completes Groundbreaking UTM Cybersecurity Model Project in Partnership with FAA

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Unifly, a Terra Drone Corporation group company and a leading provider of Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) systems, is proud to announce the successful completion of the groundbreaking Unified UTM Cybersecurity Model project, granted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as part of the Broad Agency Announcement call 003.
In partnership with the Rhea Group and NY UAS Test Site (NYUASTS), the objective and purpose of the project was to refine a UTM cybersecurity model, including the requirements and certification scheme, and to validate the model in an operational environment.
This includes either considering a limited subset of security attributes (e.g., authentication) or applying generic cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity framework) that do not provide sufficient cyber resilience for the complex ecosystem that is UTM.
In the initial phase of the project, interviews were conducted with the following stakeholders from the UTM ecosystem: FAA ATO (Federal Aviation Administration - Air Traffic Organization) NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) CNA (The National Security Analysis) Nav Canada (The Air Navigation Service Provider of Canada) * DroneUp (Drone Delivery Service Provider) During the interviews, the concept of a unified UTM cybersecurity model was presented.