WASHINGTON — Maxar Intelligence announced a deal with one of Taiwan’s largest aerospace and defense contractors to supply its drone-navigation tool for use across Taiwan’s unmanned aerial vehicle industry.

Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) said it will deploy the Maxar Raptor software across Taiwan’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry, in an effort to improve the reliability of autonomous systems in electronic-denied environments where there is no access to GPS or other navigation satellite systems.

Maxar’s Raptor is a vision-based software suite that enables autonomous drones to navigate and extract accurate ground coordinates in the absence of GPS. It provides a terrain-based positioning system for drones in GPS-denied environments by leveraging detaile

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