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 a $35,000 IDEaS grant to AVSS dated December 15, 2025, for scaling manufacturing of low-cost attritable uncrewed aerial systems. 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
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.
SourcePublicly 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 Unpublished amounts are left out.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 (contract CW2427799)
Innovative Solutions Canada — Testing Stream (contract CW2368097)
DND IDEaS
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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