Osoosi Corp · San Diego

Osoosi builds Advisory Intelligence for pilots.

Osoosi Corp was founded in 2025 in San Diego and is an EvoNexus portfolio company. Sova is the product line; APA, Artificial Pilot Awareness, is the model under it. Our stance in one sentence: precision over promises, and the pilot in command.

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DJ Catlin performing a preflight inspection at NASA

Founder

De'Schzunell "DJ" Catlin

Co-Founder & CEO

DJ Catlin founded Osoosi after two decades in aerospace. He spent ten years at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center as a flight research engineer, working avionics, instrumentation, autonomous systems and ground control stations across programs including the F/A-18, Global Hawk, ER-2, SOFIA and the X-57. Before NASA he served six years in the U.S. Air Force as an avionics technician on the KC-135. Most recently he was Senior Program Manager for Supernal's first full-scale eVTOL flight demonstrator, leading its design, integration, assembly and testing. Sova exists to give a single pilot the cross-check a crew provides, with the pilot always in command.

Team

Built by people who know the cockpit.

Osoosi brings together aerospace, avionics, software, flight operations and commercialization to build Artificial Pilot Awareness and put it in a pilot's hands.

Leadership

De'Schzunell "DJ" Catlin

Co-Founder & CEO

Former NASA Flight Research Engineer with deep avionics and aerospace systems leadership experience

Xavier D. Johnson

Co-Founder & CTO

Former Oracle researcher and systems technologist with deep software, edge systems, and AI engineering experience

Byron Donovan

Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Legal and regulatory leader supporting commercialization in safety-critical environments

Kyle Hosler

Chief Pilot

Flight operations leader and pilot representative supporting real-world cockpit validation and pilot workflows

Advisors & Mentors

Kelvin Coleman— Former FAA Associate Administrator with deep aerospace and regulatory leadership experience

William Warlick— Veteran test pilot and flight operations leader with deep cockpit and safety expertise

Ron Melanson— Former Vice President of Engineering at Oracle with senior hardware and systems engineering leadership experience

Matt Grob— CTO of Globalstar and former CTO of Qualcomm, with deep communications and platform technology leadership

Janeya Griffin— Former NASA commercialization leader with deep experience in innovation transfer and ecosystem building

Backed by

Osoosi is an EvoNexus portfolio company, San Diego.

Press kit

Boilerplate and assets.

Osoosi Corp builds Sova, an advisory-only AI copilot for general aviation, and APA, the on-device Artificial Pilot Awareness model behind it. Sova Chat answers, Sova Ground trains flight-school students with the instructor in control, and Sova Suite perceives the cockpit in flight. No aircraft modification; the pilot is always in command. Osoosi is an EvoNexus portfolio company in San Diego, founded in 2025.

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Osoosi Corp · 9191 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 150, San Diego, CA 92122

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