Engineering leadership and certification expertise, when you need it.
We embed with drone manufacturers to lead engineering efforts, integrate components, manage supplier relationships, and navigate the compliance and certification landscape — so your team can ship on time and on spec.
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.
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.