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Honeywell Focuses New Unit on UAS and UAM Sectors
The new Honeywell business unit will offer avionics, power, air traffic management, and other systems for new aircraft in the UAS and UAM sectors.
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Honeywell is supporting eVTOL aircraft developer Vertical Aerospace with flight control technology. (Photo: Vertical Aerospace)

Honeywell is forming a new Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) business unit to advance the aerospace group’s ambitions in the fast-emerging UAS and urban air mobility (UAM) sectors. The new division, announced today, will have its own engineering and sales resources and will offer aircraft systems, including avionics, hybrid and electric propulsion, thermal management, air traffic management, and ground services such as predictive maintenance.

The new Honeywell division will have a strong focus on developing software to advance key technological needs for UAS and UAM aircraft. These include fly-by-wire autopilot to ensure aircraft stability, detect-and-avoid algorithms to automatically fly an aircraft around oncoming traffic, and artificial intelligence to track landing zones.