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Our story

The work that eventually became Altimetis started before "drone industry" was a job category. Early career assignments included systems engineering for defense UAS platforms seeking FAA type certification — working directly with the regulatory gap between rules written for a pilot in a cockpit and the operational reality of a remote aircraft. The only path forward was to derive requirements from first principles: take an Advisory Circular about human-eye detect-and-avoid, translate it into latency budgets and HMI response times, and build a system architecture that could satisfy them. That kind of regulatory interpretation work, done rigorously, became a career-defining capability.

From there: engineering management on next-generation commercial eVTOL programs, running flight test ground station development from hardware/software interface design through automated regression testing. Then a national program — a formal FAA research agreement — to test commercial 4G LTE as a command and control link for small UAS, managing drone OEM partnerships, flight operations contracts, RF modeling, and delivering reports that the FAA called the most thorough the program office had seen. Then leading development of an autonomous drone dock and cloud C2 platform — spanning product requirements, integration planning, security architecture, supplier management, and safety certification — through significant customer order capture.

Throughout all of it: deep engagement with the regulatory system that governs what drones are allowed to do. Active participation in the FAA's BVLOS and Cybersecurity Aviation Rulemaking Committees. Voting membership on ASTM International Committee F38, contributing to the software airworthiness standard (F3201) and cybersecurity metastandard (F3196) that the FAA has explicitly cited in the BVLOS NPRM as the standards pathway for operational approval. Direct engagement with state aviation authorities and law enforcement on counter-UAS procurement and evaluation frameworks.

Altimetis exists because that combination — hands-on engineering execution across defense and commercial UAS programs, regulatory credibility earned from the inside, and the systems thinking to connect technical work to program outcomes — is rare and valuable. Clients don't just get engineering work done. They get engineering work done by someone who understands what it has to prove, to whom, and why.

What we believe

Outcomes over deliverables. Our clients don't need more slide decks. They need programs that run, certifications that hold up, products that integrate and investors that believe.

Deep expertise, honestly scoped. We only take on work we're genuinely qualified to do. When something is outside our lane, we say so.

Embedded, not arms-length. We work alongside your team, not in parallel to it. That's how hard problems get solved.