Boeing’s [BA] Insitu subsidiary on Monday said it has established a commercial business unit to leverage the company’s experience in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the emerging commercial market for UAS data collection.
Insitu’s ScanEagle UAS has been used by the Navy for years and its RQ-21A Blackjack UAS is now operating with the Marine Corps. While the company’s business is largely focused on defense, it does serve commercial customers as well.
The company has demonstrated UAS operations for railway monitoring, performed fire monitoring, and done work in the energy sector, Insitu said.
“Insitu brings both the technology to assist companies with their information collection and processing needs and the experience gained through more than 20 years as a professional aviation company,” Ryan Hartman, president and CEO of Insitu, said in a statement. “Unmanned systems offer tremendous promise for industry.”
Insitu said its commercial product and service offerings include air vehicles, UAS control software for operations, software suites for collection, processing and distributing sensor data and human input, payloads for flight on manned or unmanned aircraft, aerial data collection experts and aviation professionals, and partners and vendors to solve customer challenges.