Vantis has selected Thales USA as its system integrator for North Dakota’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS) network that is being developed as the first statewide system to allow unmanned aircraft to operate beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) in the U.S. BVLOS operations are considered the "holy grail" among UAS operators as it permits longer-range UAS missions.

“It would be equivalent to flying VFR versus flying IFR, so what we’re doing here is enabling IFR operations in the equivalent space of unmanned aircraft,” said Trevor Woods, interim director of the Northern Plains UAS test site, which is home to Vantis. Speaking at a press conference on Monday at NBAA-BACE 2021, he described the radar and communications network that enables BVLOS operations as “much like how your cellphone roams from tower to tower as you traverse the network, drones will do the same thing with Vantis.”