New Brunswick company that designs and manufactures drone safety hardware — ASTM F3322-compliant parachute recovery systems for DJI and other commercial platforms — alongside drone motors, guided aerial resupply and avalanche-mitigation systems.
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Founded in 2017, AVSS started developing compliant safety products for commercial drones.
Holds granted US patent 11,745,874 B2, "Unmanned aerial vehicle recovery systems and methods", assigned to AVSS – Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc. and listed as Active. patents.google.com
ISED awarded AVSS contract CW2427799 under the Innovative Solutions Canada Testing Stream for a Universal Precision Payload System, valued at $1,133,547.93. canadabuys.canada.ca
A second Innovative Solutions Canada Testing Stream contract, CW2368097, ran from 2024-07-19 to 2025-12-18 at a value of $1,261,516.65. canadabuys.canada.ca
National Defence recorded IDEaS awards for scaling low-cost attritable UAS manufacturing: a $35,000 grant (Dec 2025) and a $348,063 contribution running May 2026 to May 2027. search.open.canada.ca
AVSS says it completed its tenth ASTM F3322 parachute compliance programme, covering the DJI Dock 3 with the DJI M4D and M4TD. avss.co
The company states it keeps product development, engineering, manufacturing, testing and quality assurance in Canada while exporting to customers abroad. avss.co
National Defence contract CW2323472, $222,037.40, engineering services, ran August 2023 to February 2024, per federal proactive disclosure. search.open.canada.ca
Its own site states compliance with ASTM F3322, EASA MOC 2511, EASA MOC 2512 and EASA C5. These are means-of-compliance standards, not type certificates. avss.co
States products "can be purchased from more than 70 partners" - a reseller channel rather than direct sales. Founded 2017 in Rothesay, New Brunswick. avss.co
Its ASTM F3322 work was tested by a third-party organisation per its own statement, but the laboratory is not named and no certificate or regulator decision is published. avss.co
Its head office city is unsettled: its own footer gives a Rothesay address, while the federal registry and its LinkedIn both give Fredericton. No source names a manufacturing facility. avss.co
Its FedDev Ontario award records the recipient at Carp, Ontario. FedDev funds southern Ontario only, so it has a real Ontario presence alongside New Brunswick. search.open.canada.ca
Products AVSS — Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Drone safety
ASTM F3322-compliant parachute recovery systems that let commercial drones operate over people. AVSS says it has completed ten compliance programmes, most recently for the DJI Dock 3 with the M4D and M4TD.
SourceUAS hardware
The company states it designs, manufactures and supplies drone motors, electronic speed controllers, FPV cameras, cold weather ground control stations, guided aerial resupply systems, air launched effects and avalanche mitigation solutions.
SourceParachute recovery system
Parachute recovery system with flight-termination and automatic trigger for the DJI Matrice 4 Enterprise and Thermal. Launched January 2025, with reseller deliveries from June 2025.
Learn more SourceParachute recovery system
Parachute recovery system for the DJI M30 series. Third-party testing to ASTM F3322-24a was completed on 28 March 2025 and the first batch shipped the same day.
SourceHow AVSS — Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions says its technology can be deployed and delivered.
Publicly announced partnerships.
In August 2026 AVSS and Toronto-based ThinkOn announced a Team Awareness Kit integration hosted on Canadian sovereign cloud infrastructure.
Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
Innovative Solutions Canada — Testing Stream, Universal Precision Payload System (contract CW2427799) — testing-stream contract
Innovative Solutions Canada — Testing Stream, tested by Transport Canada (contract CW2368097) — testing-stream contract
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS), National Defence, Drone surge challenge — contribution
Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS), National Defence, Drone surge challenge — grant
Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada (Injury Reduction) — contribution
Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada (avalanche triggering R&D) — contribution
Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada (Energy Transmission Reduction) — contribution
Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada (IP Assist) — contribution
Business Scale-up and Productivity, FedDev Ontario — contribution
Class Grant and Contribution Program, Canadian Space Agency (CubeSat re-entry landing) — contribution
CanExport SMEs, National Research Council Canada / Global Affairs Canada — contribution
CanExport SMEs, National Research Council Canada / Global Affairs Canada — grant
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Josh Ogden
Chief Executive Officer
Terms the company uses about its own work.
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