Digital Aviation Solutions

JEFFREY RICHARDS has joined the Digital Aviation Solutions (DAS)  team at Thales Group as an air-traffic management (ATM) operations expert. A former air-traffic controller for the FAA for nearly 30 years, Richards will leverage his experience as part of Thales’ Syracuse DAS team supporting several key initiatives to facilitate the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the national airspace. He has served in several leadership and advisory roles for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA).

JEFF BEYER has joined Thales’ DAS team as a project-design authority, where he serves as a technical lead analyzing customer needs and designing solutions to meet customer requirements. Beyer is a systems engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the aviation industry, designing, developing, integrating, and testing ATM systems. Beyer has both a master’s and bachelor’s degree of science in electrical engineering from Michigan Technological University. Thales’ DAS team, based in Syracuse, is working toward the accelerated deployment of safe UAS operations into the national airspace.