Airability announced on the 17th that it has appointed Dr. Kim Kun-woo, a veteran of the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), as Vice President of Artificial Intelligence.
Kim spent 30 years at ADD developing missile seeker systems and AI autonomous flight architectures. As head of ADD's AI division, he designed AI pilot architecture for mobile unmanned aerial platforms. He also established a safety-focused autonomy framework that clearly separates high-level decision-making systems from flight control layers. Kim holds expertise in multi-domain sensor and AI integration, including AESA-based airborne radar, SAR radar-based object recognition, and satellite imagery super-resolution AI. With his addition, Airability has now secured core AI autonomous flight capabilities alongside its existing strengths in aircraft design, system integration, and mobility UX.
The appointment will enable Airability to advance autonomous mission AI for its high-speed drone AB-U60 and strengthen execution of its C-UAS and DFR global pipeline spanning more than nine countries. AI-based autonomous drone operation capability is a key competitive factor in the company's export-focused revenue structure across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Additionally, the company will develop SVO-based autonomous flight algorithms to lay the groundwork for commercializing AB-M1300, a personal aircraft designed for anyone to pilot.
"In the defense market, we will deliver immediately deployable autonomous drone solutions," Kim said. "In the personal aviation market, we will make safe flight accessible to everyone."