The Challenge

Drone manufacturers face a brutal combination of demands: rapid development timelines, complex supply chains, component integration challenges, and a certification environment that keeps expanding — Blue UAS, Remote ID, ISO 9001, NIST, DO-160, and more. Most teams can't maintain deep expertise across all of it at once, and gaps in any area can stall a program or cost a contract.

How We Help

Altimetis acts as an extension of your engineering and compliance teams. Whether you need a fractional systems engineer, a supplier qualification program, a path to Blue UAS listing, or a testing plan for a new payload — we scope precisely what's needed and deliver it. We've done this before and know where the bodies are buried.

What We Deliver

Component integration & systems engineering

Supplier management & qualification

Engineering design & development leadership

Safety certification planning & execution

Blue UAS assessment & application support

Remote ID compliance

ISO 9001 / AS9100 readiness

NIST & cybersecurity compliance

DO-160 / environmental testing coordination

Test planning, execution & documentation

Regulatory gap analysis

Proven Results

We led engineering on a next-generation eVTOL flight test program from ground station design through automated regression testing — reducing test cycle time for C2-dependent features from days to hours. On a separate program, we took a drone dock platform from product requirements through customer demonstrations and significant order capture, managing systems engineering, supplier coordination, safety certification, and cybersecurity architecture in parallel.

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Let's talk about what's blocking your program.

Whether it's a certification bottleneck, a supplier problem, or a need for experienced engineering leadership — we've likely seen it before.

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