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As we reflect on the past year, we are proud to share the progress made by ANRA Technologies in 2025. From major certifications and global expansion to meaningful milestones as a company, this year highlights the dedication of our team and our continued commitment to advancing safe, scalable uncrewed aviation worldwide.

1. USSP Certification

2025 began with one of the most important milestones in ANRA’s history. After a rigorous two-year process, ANRA Technologies became the first company to be officially certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency as a U-space Service Provider. Issued under EASA’s new centralized certification framework, this landmark approval represents a major step toward harmonized and scalable drone services across Europe.

The certification goes well beyond software validation. It confirms ANRA’s readiness across safety, cybersecurity, incident management, data protection, and service oversight, demonstrating the ability to deploy U-space services safely at scale. With this approval, ANRA Europe is positioned to launch services across multiple EU member states, enabling complex operations while supporting the European Commission’s Drones Strategy 2.0.

Learn more about this achievement here.

2.  ANRA Technologies 10th Anniversary 

ANRA Technologies proudly celebrated 10 years of operations. What began as a bold idea has grown into a global journey shaped by innovation, resilience, and strong partnerships. Over the past decade, ANRA has collaborated with Fortune 50 companies, air navigation service providers, and leading research institutions, helping advance uncrewed aviation across the world.

This milestone also allows for a moment of gratitude. ANRA thanks its partners, customers, families, and especially its team, whose dedication and belief in the mission made this journey possible. With a strong foundation in place, ANRA remains focused on applying its experience to deliver practical, scalable solutions that support the continued evolution of uncrewed aviation.

More about this celebration on our website.

3. Commercial Operations

We saw a pivot in specific markets that are transitioning from research-oriented operations to commercial deployments. ANRA continued to advance UTM operations in the United States through partnerships with leading drone delivery companies such as Amazon and DoorDash. Using ANRA’s UTM platform and its FAA-approved Letter of Acceptance, multiple commercial operators safely share airspace with real-time coordination, demonstrating how drones can be integrated efficiently and at scale within the broader airspace system.

In Dubai, ANRA kicked off a project to help build one of the world’s most advanced digital airspace systems.  ANRA Technologies was awarded a contract by Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects and Dubai Air Navigation Services to design and deploy Dubai’s next-generation UTM platform. The system will enable safe and scalable unmanned operations across the Dubai Control Traffic Area, with phased delivery and ongoing enhancements supported by ANRA’s new office in Dubai. This dedicated regional presence strengthens collaboration with local stakeholders and positions ANRA to support the continued evolution of digital airspace management in the Middle East.

4. Looking Back at our Wins in 2025

UTM

Establishing a Strategic Testbed for Scalable Drone Operations.
In Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula, ANRA supported the launch of a public-private partnership to advance drone mobility and airspace management. The initiative will establish a regional Operations Center in Chippewa County, enabling FAA-authorized, real-world BVLOS operations for missions including emergency response, infrastructure inspection, and logistics, positioning the region as a testbed for scalable UAS deployment.

More about this project here.

Validating Safe and Interoperable UTM Services in the UK.
ANRA Technologies UK received funding from the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s Airspace Modernization Strategy effort to launch live UTM services in Lancashire. The project will demonstrate how multiple commercial and emergency service drone operators can safely share airspace, generating operational evidence to support the UK’s future national UTM policy. This project is all about showing how multiple drone operators can safely share the same airspace. Working with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, Manna Drone Delivery, and Wing, we’re preparing live BVLOS operations in Lancashire to test how interoperability, governance, and safety can support both commercial and emergency drone use.

U-space

Advancing Urban Air Mobility for Emergency Response in Europe.

ANRA Technologies contributed to a major milestone for European urban air mobility with the first demonstration flights of the U-SAVE project in Zaragoza, Spain. As part of the U-SAVE consortium, ANRA provided U-space services and digital infrastructure, supporting complex emergency response missions in urban environments. The successful demonstrations in Spain, with additional pilot campaigns underway in Estonia, highlight how trusted airspace services and strong partnerships can enable safe, coordinated, and scalable drone operations in support of communities and first responders.

Read more about U-SAVE.

Deploying U-space in Zurich.

ANRA Technologies is part of the 2025–2026 Zurich U-space plans as a U-space service provider, working alongside partners to operate within a multi-USSP environment. In 2025, Zurich serves as a live testbed for a soft-launch phase, with FOCA and partners trialing services such as real-time drone tracking, network remote ID, and automated flight authorizations in a limited, controlled setting. The program will continue in 2026 with a second soft-launch phase, leading to a transition by late 2026 from pilots to continuous U-space service provision, enabling routine BVLOS and commercial missions in a digitally managed airspace that can later be replicated across Switzerland.

Defense and Security 

Delivering a C-UAS Integrated Air Picture for NATO.

ANRA Technologies participated in its third NATO Technical Interoperability Exchange live flight event, showcasing our enhanced counter-UAS and airspace management with our Single Integrated Operating Picture (SIOP). The web-based SIOP platform fuses cooperative and non-cooperative surveillance sensors, including radar, RF, C-UAS, ADS-B, FLARM, Remote ID, and UTM telemetry, into a single track. Supporting open and proprietary standards, SIOP allows operators to track friendly drones and detect non-cooperative aircraft in one integrated, scalable, and tech-agnostic application.

UAM 

Developing Cooperative Services at the FAA Center for Advanced Aviation Technologies (CAAT).

ANRA kicked off the UAM Cooperative Separation Evaluation (CSE) project, a joint effort led by CAAT in coordination with industry partners to develop a Concept of Use (ConUse), along with the necessary capabilities and system architecture for a new “Cooperative Separation” service that will be assessed by the FAA. This capability will be designed to complement the Demand Capacity Balancing (DCB) service and will ensure that UAM vehicles are kept separate from other traffic both within and outside UAM cooperative airspace. Similar to the DCB tool, the Cooperative Separation tool will be interoperable, as the federated system will consist of multiple Providers of Service for UAM (PSUs). The “separation tool” will be tested in a simulated real-world environment, and the simulation results will be used to refine the UAM ConOps.

Advancing Urban Air Mobility with NASA. 

ANRA Technologies collaborated with NASA at the Ames Research Center as part of the Strategic Deconfliction Simulation under NASA’s Air Mobility Pathfinders program. Serving as the provider of UAM airspace management services, ANRA delivered and integrated its UAM software to support simulations of high-density urban air mobility operations. Working alongside NASA and industry partners, the effort helped evaluate advanced deconfliction concepts and contributed valuable insight into building safe, efficient, and interoperable urban airspace for the future of advanced air mobility.

Vertiport and Airspace Management for eVTOLS in Texas.

The Autonomy Research Institute (ARI) at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) led an ambitious effort to create a federated Provider of Services for UAS (PSU) network, working alongside industry partners to explore what is possible today and what the future of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) will look like from an industry perspective.

ANRA Technologies was proud to contribute to this initiative by helping design and implement a functional, secure, and federated UAM/PSU network capable of managing live, virtual, and constructive flights across multiple geographically dispersed areas. This nearly year-long project culminated with a successful live and simulated flight demonstration in Corpus Christi, Texas, at the end of September. Through ARI’s Cooperative Research into Operational Workflows (CROW) project, ANRA showcased its full end-to-end Demand-Capacity Balancing (DCB) service, UAM/PSU, and Vertiport Management System (VMS). These integrated systems enabled real-time ingestion, monitoring, and conformance checking of flight intent, including dynamic flight updates, to demonstrate how multiple service providers can operate collaboratively within a shared airspace network.

5. Industry Engagement

In 2025, ANRA Technologies strengthened its engagement with the global aviation industry, contributing expertise and guidance across key regulatory and safety initiatives. We provided feedback on the FAA draft rule for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations and was appointed to several influential advisory groups, including the FAA Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committee, the FAA Civil Aviation Cybersecurity Aviation Rulemaking Committee, EASA’s AI Trustworthiness Rulemaking Group under the European Plan for Aviation Safety, and Co-Chair the US Shared Airspace Implementation Operations Committee(aka, the Key Site) 

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re grateful for the trust, collaboration, and support that made this year’s progress possible. From celebrating our 10th anniversary to earning the first EASA USSP certification and expanding real-world operations and partnerships across the U.S., Europe, the UK, and the Middle East, these milestones reflect collective effort, not just our own. We are humbled by the opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute alongside so many dedicated partners, customers, and teammates.

Looking to 2026, we move forward with optimism and a clear sense of responsibility, focused on delivering interoperable, resilient, and scalable solutions that help make the vertical aviation economy safer and more accessible for all. Thank you for being part of our journey so far. We’re proud of how far we’ve come, and even more excited for what comes next. The best is still ahead.