Hanneke Weitering is a writer and editor with AIN covering advanced air mobility and new flight technologies. She became an aviation journalist and joined the AIN team in the summer of 2022 after reporting on spaceflight and astronomy for six years at Space.com. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she moved to New York City to pursue a master’s degree in science, health, and environmental reporting at New York University&#039;s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is now based in Seattle near Boeing Field and spends her free time exploring nature in the Pacific Northwest.

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Canadian air navigation service provider Nav Canada has selected Indra Group, a Spanish air traffic management technology supplier, to build its planned flight information management system for remotely piloted aircraft (rFIMS). The centralized digital platform will integrate drones and other uncrewed aircraft into Canadian airspace.&nbsp;The agreement was signed on Tuesday at Airspace World 2026 in Lisbon.
rFIMS will serve as the digital backbone linking Nav Canada with a growing network of remote-piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) traffic management service providers (RSPs) that will offer services directly to drone operators. The system will be deployed in phases, with initial capabilities—including foundational flight management, monitoring, and connectivity services—targeted to go live in 2029. Enhanced operational intelligence and tactical conflict management features are slated for later phases.
The partnership builds on the <a href="https://www.navcanada.ca/en/rpas-conops.pdf">RPAS taffic management concept of operations</a> that Nav Canada and Transport Canada, the country’s civil aviation authority, published in 2023. That concept envisions a collaborative 2030 ecosystem of regulators, service providers, and industry partners. Nav Canada said it will work with Transport Canada and prospective RSPs in the coming months to develop the standards and framework governing third-party participation.

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