FREQUENTIS CZECH REPUBLIC SRO

Their core work

Frequentis Czech Republic is the Prague-based arm of the Frequentis group, a supplier of communication, information and control-room systems for air traffic management (ATM) and other safety-critical domains. Through SESAR Joint Undertaking projects they contribute engineering and system-integration work on the next generation of European air traffic control — including the insertion of drones and remotely piloted aircraft into civil airspace. Their role is practical and technical: building and validating the ATM software, voice/data services and controller-facing tools that airspace regulators need before new categories of aircraft can fly routinely.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Early work (PJ15 COSER, 2016-2019) sat in SESAR's foundational layer — common services shared across ATM solutions. From 2019 the focus shifts sharply toward new airspace users: ERICA tackles RPAS and drones flying under IFR alongside manned aircraft, and GOF2.0 pushes into urban air mobility and U-space. The direction is unmistakable — from back-end ATM infrastructure to front-line integration of unmanned and urban aviation.

They are moving with the European ATM roadmap toward drones, U-space and urban air mobility — a good fit for partners working on unmanned aviation, airspace digitalisation or safety-critical communications.

How they like to work

They consistently appear as a third party inside SESAR consortia rather than as a named beneficiary or coordinator, typically contributing specialist engineering alongside the parent Frequentis group. Despite this indirect role they have been exposed to 69 partners across 23 countries, because SESAR projects pull in most major European ANSPs, airframers and ATM suppliers. Expect them to deliver focused technical work inside a large, pre-formed consortium rather than to shape the consortium itself.

Connected to 69 distinct partners across 23 countries through three SESAR projects, with a strongly European footprint centred on the ATM and ANSP community.

What sets them apart

Frequentis is one of the few commercial suppliers whose voice and data communication systems are already installed in control towers and centres across Europe, so the Czech entity brings real operational product context — not just research code — into SESAR work. Compared with pure research labs in the same projects, they can take validated concepts and push them toward deployable ATM products. For a partner, this means a route from prototype to something an air navigation service provider might actually buy.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PJ13-W2 ERICA
  Directly addresses one of European aviation's hardest open problems — inserting RPAS and unmanned aircraft into controlled IFR airspace with detect-and-avoid.
• GOF2.0
  A very large demonstration of integrated urban airspace and U-space services, placing them at the front of the urban air mobility wave.
• PJ15 COSER
  A core SESAR2020 'common services' project, meaning their work touched infrastructure reused across many other ATM solutions.