The Company:
OMS has been a self-funded R&D facility since 2005, that has created different UAS/Drone designs, before arriving at the production ready designs. This design is called the Super Vulture SV-06 and is not a mission specific aircraft, allowing it to conduct multiple roles. The founder of the company, Dirk Van Voris, is a retired Law Enforcement Officer and a licensed airframe and powerplant mechanic. He has participated in DARPA exercises and was invited to "Scientist Helping America" after 9/11 to help fight terrorism with drones.
The Products:
OMS offers the first product as a heavy lift UAS/Drone, the Super Vulture SV-06. The aircraft is considered a “hybrid” that is gas powered, but electrically driven. This expands the capabilities and flight times dramatically over plain battery driven aircraft.
The second product is a large unmanned aerial advertising platform that has word and letter scrolling LEDs that flies at night.
The third product, still under construction, is a private UAS test site with two runways and an area for rotorcraft to takeoff and land from. We will offer the site's amenities on a daily pass that doesn’t force occupancy and area leases, like the FAA UAS test sites throughout the country.
The fourth product is an established "drone delivery" operation that has gone through the testing phase and has two customers onsite. The FAA continuously challenges this industry by adding regulations to an already heavily regulated industry. The new regulations for extended flight will require a radar system to monitor manned aircraft traffic. These new regulations have held back our progress of expanding this part of the business.
The Market:
By initially approaching and talking with the Aviation Division of the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM), they are eager to put our UAS aircraft into use to help fight wildfires in the state. The UAS fly in packs of three to six aircraft at a time and release a fire retardant, identical to what the fire bombers use. This will help propel our firefighting skills and aircraft into other areas of the United States, and then the Southern Hemisphere in the West’s off season. Six months in the U.S., five to six moths in Europe.
Our aerial advertising platform(s) will be ready to be put to work soon from simple nighttime scrolling marquee advertising messaging, to gender reveals and simple announcements. Similar technology exists with manned aircraft, but only a few of these aircraft exist, due to manned aircraft regulations. The unmanned platform is much more cost effective for customers in todays stretched economy, with the same results.
Our UAS test site, on calendar to be operational by the end of late May 2024, will allow smaller UAS test pilots and smaller manufacturers to test and utilize airspace that is non-regulated and wide open, but in a safe way. The test site is on an eighty acre site with our new manufacturing facility and two runways. The current FAA test sites throughout the country require organizations to lease hangars, take up some sort of residency, and are geared for large corporations. Interest has been substantial so far, including the Unmanned Safety Institute with all of their industry contacts.
It's no secret that drone delivery has been hobbled by regulations in the name of safety. Finally, the delivery options of extended flight, aka "BVLOS" have been figured out by the bigger corporations that the FAA has been sold on. Using radar to track manned aircraft from the drone dispatch site is now the answer to be able to deliver miles away from where the drone was dispatched. With the proper employees and equipment, we are confident that our delivery site will excel once we get over the BVLOS hurdle.
We already have two clients onsite, one a Pharmacy, the other a small organic farm that supplies local restaurants.
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