Dear Valued Customers, Partners and Aviators,

As 2024 draws to a close, we want to take this opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made this year and share some of the exciting projects and partnerships that have been instrumental in advancing our vision. It has been a year of incredible growth, collaboration, and innovation, and we are grateful to have you as part of our network. It is with immense joy and gratitude that we extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones this Christmas and New Year. 

Here’s a look at some of our standout achievements:

A-techSYN’s 
Technology News & Update

CGT VTOL UAV Take-off and Landing on Vessel!

We are excited to share a significant milestone in our journey of innovation and testing! Recently, we successfully conducted take-off and landing operations with our CGT VTOL UAV from the SeaOwl’s deck, a vessel measuring 13 meters wide, 25 meters long for take off area, and featuring 3-meter-high walls on each side of its deck without any additional landing tools. These structural challenges, combined with wind, rain, and waves, created a truly demanding environment for the mission.

Together, we are pushing the boundaries of UAV capabilities!
Our goal is to build up a capability which will enable local teams to start new projects with end-users, go through the complete process from manufacturing to training and maintaining, as well as on-the-field testing and flight operations..

The ZEUS Project – Future of test and evaluation of autonomous systems. 
Industry and MOD recently teamed up to develop a future capability operating concept for the test and evaluation of autonomous systems. The ZEUS Project aimed to test and validate autonomous capabilities under challenging, GNSS-denied environments to advance autonomous operations and enduring autonomy.

We A-techSYN, Conducted multiple autonomous flights (Autonomous Flight Operations), both synthetic and live, at Radnor Range, enhancing autonomous capability testing in GNSS-denied environments.

A-TechSYN Secures Another Operational Authorisation in Ireland !

We are thrilled to announce that A-techSYN has successfully secured yet another UAS Operational Authorisation from the IAA ( Irish Aviation Authority). Our new base of operation will be the Carrowmore Point on the west coast of Ireland!

Over the next months we are planning to perform up to 100 BVLOS flights for existing (DTIF-GUARD, UAVES, MISTRAL) and future projects with the CGT50 VTOL UAV. The flights will be conducted up to 2500 feet and 28 km range within a dedicated TRA off the west coast of Ireland’s County Clare.

Irish GUARD Project Steps Up Anti-Drug Smuggling Efforts With Autonomous Drones: DTIF GUARD will enable 3 Irish SMEs to develop world-leading smart drone technology, in a market expected to grow to $45bn by 2025. The new capability will be demonstrated with the Irish Navy for drug interdiction. Technology is broadly applicable to many other applications. GUARD will advance drone capability, autonomous operation & communications far beyond the state-of-the-art. GUARD will enable the SMEs to significantly scale up their operations and aims to create 500 jobs in Ireland and make Ireland a leader in autonomous drones. Enabling the Irish Navy to efficiently survey large areas of the coastline. The partners and the technologies are being brought together “to aid the Irish Navy and Customs to dramatically improve their drug smuggling interdiction efforts and reduce costs. “GUARD will be the world’s first marinized drones that will be capable of withstanding high winds, be able to take off and land anywhere including to and from ships, have an 800km range, and operate beyond line of sight.”

The SEAI funded partnership brings together A-techSYN, Atlantic Technological University, BlueWise Marine, and Energia Renewables to utilise U-AVES (Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles for Ecological Surveys) for maritime ecological surveys.

We A-techSYN are delighted to be involved with our project Partners in the U-Aves Project which aims to revolutionise the way off shore ecological surveys will be carried out using un crewed aerial systems with our CGT-50 aircraft.

The U-AVES project will utilise cameras and sensors deployed on a long endurance VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) fixed wing UAV to capture imagery of seabirds and marine mammals in two Proof of Concept Flights in study areas yet to be defined. This project aims to achieve a dual goal: optimising sensor selection, flight operations and aircraft controls, while also validating the technology’s efficacy in conducting large-range offshore ecological surveys.

MISTRAL Project Wins Half a Million Euro in SFI-Defence Organisation Innovation Challenge: 

The MISTRAL Project Team consisting of Tyndall National Institute at Trinity College Dublin, the Irish Defence Forces and A-techSYN, has won half a million euro in the SFI-Defence Organisation Innovation Challenge. 

Winners of the challenge were announced this week by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Micheál Martin TD, and the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD.