Thales will build Singapore’s national system for managing drone traffic. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore named Thales Solutions Asia as the winner of its tender on 19 April 2026, Unmanned Airspace reported. Seven qualified bidders were cut to three on technical merit before price decided, the authority said.
Thales leads the team, with Deeeplabs, a local firm, it said on 26 May. The system is built on its TopSky - AstraUTM software. Pilots will use one website to register their drones, plan flights and get them approved, and each flight is tracked live.
The tender, put out in December 2024, set out what it must do. It covers every drone flight in Singapore, for fun or for work, and replaces five older online systems. Six bodies will check requests in the same place: the aviation authority, the police, the air force, the port authority, the national water agency PUB and the National Parks Board.
It is meant to cut paperwork for pilots too. “The new system will boost our regulatory capabilities while reducing regulatory burden,” said Han Kok Juan, the authority’s director-general.
Thales already supplies Singapore’s air traffic management systems, which the drone system will have to work with, Unmanned Airspace reported.
Neither the authority nor Thales has published the contract’s value or a date for the system to go live.
