FlytBase, an enterprise platform for drone autonomy, announced this week a partnership with Yarra Drones, an Australian company specializing in UTM infrastructure and drone compliance systems, as the country moves toward broader beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations and national UTM adoption.

Yarra Drones holds approval from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and was selected by Airservices Australia to develop next-generation UTM services delivery as a UAS Services Supplier (USS). The company's platform is built on AusSORA-based operational workflows designed to support compliant enterprise drone operations across Australia.

FlytBase provides organizations with tools to run automated drone missions, manage fleets remotely, and scale dock-based operations across a hardware-agnostic ecosystem. The company counts deployments in security, inspections, emergency response, and infrastructure monitoring, and supports a partner network of 146 solution providers and 18 docking station OEMs.

Under the partnership, the two companies will jointly support enterprises, government agencies, drone operators, and OEMs looking to build compliant, scalable drone programs in Australia.

"Australian drone operators are entering a new phase where compliance and operational scalability need to work together," said Ravi Murty, founder and chief remote pilot at Yarra Drones, in a statement. "By partnering with FlytBase, we can support customers with trusted UTM services delivery expertise alongside an enterprise-grade autonomous drone operations platform that supports multiple hardware ecosystems and deployment models."

Nitin Gupta, founder and CEO of FlytBase, said the partnership addresses a core challenge for operators scaling autonomous programs. 

"This partnership combines Yarra Drones' regulatory and UTM expertise in Australia with FlytBase's globally deployed autonomous drone operations platform, helping organizations build scalable drone operations without being locked into proprietary hardware ecosystems."