AGS Airports Ltd

Lead Consortium member AGS Airports Limited is a partnership between Ferrovial and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) established in 2014 to invest in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports. As the second largest airport group in the UK, AGS carried approximately 14M passengers in 2019. AGS Airports Limited is jointly held by Ferrovial and AGS Ventures Airports Limited, an entity managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Limited.

Project Director: Fiona Smith
Group Head of Aerodrome Safety - AGS Airports
Email: fiona.smith@agsairports.co.uk

ANRA Technologies Ltd

ANRA Technologies, a UK Private Limited Company, with offices in London, Washington DC and New Delhi, is an international provider of end-to-end drone operations and traffic management solutions for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operators and airspace managers. ANRA offers highly-sophisticated and modular traffic management software capabilities as part of the SmartSkiesTM family for UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations. ANRA offers enterprise-class drone operations solution via SmartSkies Mission ManagerTM and SmartSkies DeliveryTM.

Arup

Arup are global leaders in acoustic consulting provide their SoundLab facility to enable visual and aural experience of drone noise. For over 75 years, Arup has been recognised for its vision, talent and tenacity. Dedicated to sustainable development, the firm is a collective of 16,000 designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.

Atkins Ltd

Atkins is part of SNC-Lavalin’s Engineering, Design and Project Management sector. We are one of the world’s most respected global and integrated design, engineering and project management consultancies serving infrastructure, transportation and energy sectors. We have approximately 50,000 employees worldwide and 450 employees in our Glasgow Office. Atkins are helping to move the world forward, by building what matters. Where others see challenges, we see opportunities to transform things for the better. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. Whether it’s rapid urbanisation against the backdrop of ever-increasing pressures on resources, or the accelerated connectivity of people and places, our industry is uniquely positioned to deliver outcomes for our clients that help to enrich people’s lives.

Cellnex

 Cellnex are the largest provider of cell tower infrastructure in the UK who provide a 5G network and build the network. Cellnex will be installing cell tower infrastructure to provide a 5G network at an agreed airport based network site

Commonplace

Commonplace’s citizen engagement platform is designed to reach communities to engage in conversations, analyse feedback and collaborate on future ideas. Specifically, Commonplace has 7,500 registered users in Scotland, who can be reached to create a shared understanding of community needs, fears and aspirations around a potentially contentious set of proposals. Commonplace provide an AI enabled engagement platform to identify thematic and geographic trends.

Connected Places Catapult

The Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s technology and innovation centre accelerating smarter living and Intelligent Mobility, harnessing emerging technologies to improve the movement of people and goods around the world. The CPC supports and enables organisations to harness emerging technologies, developing new products and services to capitalise on this rapidly growing global market, including focusing on drone technology and associated services. The CPC has a team of leading automated science, data, modelling, and engineering specialists who are experienced in delivering projects focusing on automation and advancing research towards practical application. As an organisation, we have experience of successfully delivering collaborative projects funded by Innovate UK (IUK), the Department for Transport (DfT) and Horizon 2020. The CPC is part of a network of not-for-profit technology and innovation centres established and overseen by the UK innovation agency, Innovate UK.

Dronamics Global Limited (DRO)

Dronamics are a UAS operator currently developing a middle mile solution aimed at freight cargo operations for high payload at long range. Our mission at DRONAMICS is to democratize airfreight and lower the cost of shipping in emerging markets. To achieve this, we are developing a new type of cargo airplane – small, unmanned and extremely fuel efficient. It can transport 350 KG over 2,500 KM for a cost that's 50%+ lower than other airplanes. It flies autonomously, can be monitored and managed remotely via satellite, and the whole system costs less than a sports car.

The Drone Office

The Drone Office is a consultancy and services company specializing in drones. We offer clients independent, solution-agnostic expertise. We advocate safe and innovative drone roadmaps. Drones are part of digital transformation. Beyond safety, our objective is to help clients transform disruption into a competitive advantage and value creation. Equally important, we share a vision of technology with a sense of purpose, that truly adds value for everyone.

DGP Intelsius Ltd

Intelsius was incorporated as DGP Group in 1998, when the company developed a unique packaging solution designed for the transportation of samples suspected of containing the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, or “Mad Cow Disease”) prion. DGP Group became the first UN-certified BSE sample shipper in the world, within a year. The company soon went global, becoming widely recognized as one of the global market leaders of sample transport and temperature-compliant packaging solutions. We have recently developed an insulated Arial delivery package. This UNICEF/WHO project was looking for an aerodynamic, environmentally friendly and insulated single-use package for the transport of vaccines in remote areas by UAV. (Patent Pending). As an ISTA-certified test laboratory, we are able to develop all packaging solutions in-house and qualify them according to all applicable regulations and requirements. Intelsius has also been an established, certified and qualified supplier to various organisations including NHS Supply Chain, Public Health England and the Animal Plant and Health Agency for many years.

NATS Ltd

NATS Holdings is the main air navigation service provider in the United Kingdom. It inherited the traditions of UK air traffic control, which (founded over Croydon Airport) was the world's first air traffic control regime. It provides en-route air traffic control services to flights within the UK flight information regions and the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area, and provides air traffic control services to 14 UK airports. The workforce of NATS is mainly made up of air traffic controllers (ATCOs), air traffic control engineers (ATCEs), air traffic services assistants (ATSAs) and science technical analytical and research staff (STARs). Administrative and support staff make up the remainder of the 4,500 or so employees of NATS.

 NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland is the publicly funded healthcare system in Scotland, and one of the four systems which make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates fourteen territorial NHS boards across Scotland, seven special non-geographic health boards and NHS Health Scotland. NHS Scotland will be taking a once-for-Scotland approach with all three regional NHS innovation hubs supporting the proposed activity. NHS Scotland support successful delivery and evaluation of the innovation use cases through existing staff and structures and through grantfunded staff employed specifically to deliver this programme of work

Plane Finder

Our core competencies include - ADS-B/MLAT surveillance, (we design and manufacture our own ADS-B/MLAT hardware and software), the delivery of real time surveillance APIs trusted across the aviation industry, the creation of end user display software (including our apps, website and FIDs), and the design, installation and management of bespoke surveillance networks for situational awareness and BVLOS drone operations.

Skyports

Skyports has pioneered Scotland’s first medical drone delivery service and have demonstrated themselves to be amongst the leading providers for drone based logistic services in the world. In addition to the rich experience as a drone operator, Skyports operates a fleet of robustly tested, technologically advances, safest drones in the world and has a strong track record of implementing drone operation use-cases. Skyports will operate the physical flight demonstration drones implementing and operating end-to-end, middle and last mile drone deliveries.

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde is a technically focused university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Strathclyde relies on a multi-million research income from UK Research Councils, UK charities, European Commission and industry and has a portfolio of 125 FP7. Strathclyde has the necessary policies and mechanisms in place in order to promote the maximization of the impact of its research on the academic and industrial worlds, the society and policy makers.

Trax International

Trax work at the forefront of associated R&D activities currently being undertaken by the industry and CAA to tackle the key ATM modernisation implementation challenges facing our sector. Our core consultancy team is comprised of experienced pilots, air traffic controllers, commercial drone operators, airspace designers, instrument flight procedure designers, systems engineers, software developers, business analysts, regulators and economists. The consultants working on this project were selected owing to their experience in airspace change, policy & regulatory approvals, airspace classifications and restrictions, flight planning, UTM live airspace trials, concept development, ATC operational procedures and ATM safety