ANRA to build Dubai’s citywide UTM and opens Dubai office to support regional drone operations

ANRA Technologies has been appointed by Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects, working with Dubai Air Navigation Services, to design and deploy a citywide UTM to authorize flights, monitor real‑time airspace activity, detect and resolve conflicts, and coordinate stakeholders. ANRA also opened a Dubai office to support government, industry and commercial users across the Middle East.

Discovered 2025-09-10T03:33:43.970300-07:00 | 2025-09-10T03:33:43.970300-07:00

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The contract establishes a scalable, citywide UTM for Dubai that will authorize flights, provide real‑time airspace monitoring and conflict resolution — a key foundation for routine drone operations and delegated airspace management (ANRA wins DAEP/DANS contract to build Dubai's national UTM system).
ANRA’s Dubai office expands on‑the‑ground support for government, industry and commercial stakeholders across the region, accelerating deployment and local integration of UTM services and regulatory coordination.
The UTM will need to interface with detect‑and‑avoid and autonomy developments already under test (for example, NASA’s cooperative program on large UAS detect‑and‑avoid) and with ground infrastructure and sustainment concepts for advanced unmanned operations (NASA, Reliable Robotics Team Up to Accelerate Large UAS Airspace Integration; Urban-Air Port and AMS Global Forge Defence Partnership for UAS Sustainment).

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