AirMap, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based air traffic management platform maker, has launched a business unit that will focus on projects with defense and national security clients.
The AirMap Defense Group will offer dual-use platforms for commercial applications as well as Department of Defense programs, AirMap said Tuesday.
The business unit's creation builds on AirMap's prior work with the DoD to create the AirBoss technology designed to support the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions of small quadcopters.
Larry Berkin, executive vice president of business and corporate development at AirMap and general manager of ADG, said the new business aims to use “American-built technologies” to support critical DoD missions.
In addition to the establishment of ADG, AirMap also unveiled the founding members of the defense unit’s advisory council.
The council members are Robert Neller, former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps; George Harrison, former head of the U.S. Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center; and Edward Gibbons, a former infantry officer at the U.S. Army.
