Indra Group To Build Nav Canada Drone Integration Platform

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. 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 RPAS taffic management concept of operations 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.