PHOENIX, AZ (April 5, 2023) — Plug and Play celebrated the official launch of its newest location in Arizona today during an event in Phoenix alongside the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA). Last month, Plug and Play announced their expansion to Arizona, and today, they released the names of their first three founding partners of this new location: Intel, Honeywell Aerospace and Raytheon Missiles & Defense.
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AUVSI Presents: How to Maximize Your Value When You Sell Your Company
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 19 at 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET
Webinar Description:
M&A advisors from Roadmap Advisors, a Lower Middle Market investment bank and subject matter experts in selling companies, will discuss best practices, requirements and strategies on how to identify the best value for your business. This event will address questions to help provide insight and guidance to prepare your company for a sale and will allow time for a Q&A. It will cover early-stage planning, selling the business, and quality of earnings.
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Tech, Regulatory, Market, and Media Trends to Watch In 2023: Takeaways From AUVSI’s Future Forecast Webinar
The advancement of uncrewed technology relies heavily on a variety of factors coming together and shaping the future of the industry. The industry is in exciting stages of both innovation and operations and AUVSI is eagerly leaning into both in the new year.
AUVSI Presents: Operating Indoors – Time to Think Outside the Box
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST
Webinar Description:
Indoor drone and robotic operations, such as in warehouses, provide unique challenges and opportunities. Overcoming the technical, operational, and regulatory challenges of safely and effectively navigating indoor spaces is critical to success – and businesses need to develop trust in their people and systems.
Join this webinar to hear from businesses who develop the tech and those that have been able to safely and creatively use the technology to their advantage – as time and money savers.
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No Bars? No Problem - Navigation in GPS-denied Environments
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 6 at 3:00 - 4:00 pm EST
Webinar Description: As missions continue to evolve and new applications for uncrewed systems are explored, more advanced navigation options will be necessary, which is especially true in GPS/GNSS-denied environments. Join professionals as they discuss the use of new and blended technologies to improve access to accurate location information in environments that have intentional and unintentional interference.
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Wingcopter Secures $22 Million in Series A Funding to Aid in COVID-19 Relief
Wingcopter has secured $22 million in Series A funding to strengthen its leadership in drone-based logistics, with a special focus on healthcare-related applications including the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
“Our team is driven by tackling the world’s challenges through scalable innovations,” said Wingcopter CEO Tom Plümmer. “This chapter of our journey is dedicated to setting up logistical highways in the sky that leapfrog traditional means of transportation.”
Weekend Roundup: September 25, 2020
This Week in the Unmanned Systems and Robotics World
Wilson Logistics will equip 1,120 of its trucks with Locomation’s platooning technology, with the first units to be delivered in 2022. The two companies have also extended their commercial partnership through at least the end of 2028. (VentureBeat)
Sentient Blue takes top prize of GENIUS NY competition
A team from Italy called Sentient Blue is the winner of the $1 million grand prize from Round Three of the Genius NY accelerator.
“We at Sentient Blue are honored to have been selected as the winner of GENIUS NY 2019,” says Saif Akanni, CEO and CTO of Sentient Blue.
“This award is a real milestone for Sentient Blue; it will allow us to establish the company in Central New York and accelerate our growth and development.”
From Unmanned Systems Magazine: Military looks to startup world to speed technological innovation
Recognizing the need to revitalize its procurement process, the Pentagon established a fast-track organization two years ago that would accelerate delivery of critical new technologies and systems to its warfighters.
Under the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, the new Defense Innovation Unit, known as DIU, would serve as a direct pipeline to connect military customers with non-traditional businesses.
From Unmanned Systems Magazine: Good teams, good strategies, compelling tales: Successful startups describe their strategies
With technological advances emerging nearly every day, companies in the unmanned systems industry are competing to build better, stronger, faster, more agile machines for every type of customer, from governments to businesses to consumers. The technology is becoming more affordable and accessible, making the UAS industry one of the most dynamic, unpredictable and exciting marketplaces on earth.
Now more than ever, the path to competing in the market is paved with opportunity. As more countries have developed regulations allowing drone operations, and as more industries have created standards for the use and incorporation of unmanned systems into business functions, widespread adoption is racing ahead.
