GRAND FORKS, ND – Vantis, North Dakota’s statewide unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) network, recently signed a long-term agreement to house the Vantis Mission and Network Operations Center (MNOC) at the Grand Sky business and aviation park. The MNOC is an essential component of Vantis – as the name suggests, it is the focal point to provide secure network operations monitoring and administration, customer coordination and support, performance and safety data reporting, and other critical functions.
“The MNOC is an indispensable part of the infrastructure of Vantis,” said Nicholas Flom, executive director of the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, which oversees Vantis. “We’re putting together all of the technology necessary to accomplish our lofty goals, so as physical remote infrastructure is deployed, the MNOC is ready to go to connect the network.”
24 February 2021
Fully leased building is testament to the high demand from UAS companies to be North Dakota
GRAND FORKS, N.D. Grand Sky Development Company, LLC (Grand Sky) has entered into lease agreements with four tenants to occupy the entirety of the new Multi-Tenant Building 1 (MT1) at the business and aviation park. The tenants include General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Northern Plains UAS Test Site, Grand Sky Airfield Operations, LLC and Innovets Aerospace.
The Northern Plains UAS Test Site has signed a 10-year lease in the MT1 building at Grand Sky and has plans to use the space as the headquarters and operations center for Vantis, the statewide Beyond Visual Line of Site Network (BVLOS). Northern Plains UAS Test Site and Grand Sky have collaborated numerous times on multiple projects in support of medium and large UAS operations. These projects include supporting a commercial beyond-line-of sight-flight of the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAS, as well as
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