In an effort to advance global medical drone deliveries, Pierce Aerospace has announced a partnership with a drone delivery company based in Bengaluru, India called Redwing Labs.

The partnership will leverage the respective strengths of each company, including Pierce Aerospace’s Remote Identification expertise and technologies, and Redwing Labs' long-distance delivery UAS and operations.

“I am happy to see Redwing Labs and Pierce Aerospace combining efforts to advance medical drone delivery around the world,” says Aaron Pierce, CEO Pierce Aerospace.

“Applying Remote ID to these flights expands the scope of airborne medical operations even further, helping patients obtain greater and faster access to healthcare when it is needed most.”

Pierce Aerospace and Redwing Labs are developing a UAS sandbox for the UNAIDS Innovations Exchange, where Redwing Labs uses its long-range UAS to facilitate the delivery of medical goods within a 50-kilometer radius. During this process, Pierce Aerospace provides Remote ID to the aircraft, as well as to other partners operating within the sandbox.

“Pierce Aerospace's Remote ID technology is essential to enable safe and scalable BVLOS operations for social and commercial purposes,” says Anshul Sharma, co-founder of Redwing Labs.

“Redwing’s experience with drone delivery combined with Pierce Aerospace's Remote ID technology is an important milestone for repetitive commercial deliveries.”

Having already showcased some of these components in Papua New Guinea, Redwing Labs is now building capacity towards increasing adoption of UAS deliveries across the world.

Through their partnership, Pierce Aerospace and Redwing Labs are addressing the economic and social potential of UAS technology, which they note can be harnessed by enabling beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations with Remote ID.