— Jordan Freed, President of Kongsberg Geospatial
HALIFAX, ON, CANADA, October 4, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Team V-BAT publicizes the collaboration of three main technical organizations every offering extremely specialised and skilled capabilities to allow a really low-threat, non-developmental answer for the upcoming Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Project.
Voyageur Aviation Corp., a division of Chorus Aviation, will present full airworthiness and particular mission providers, life-cycle administration in addition to in-service help (ISS), Shield.AI will present the V-BAT tactical UAS platform and Kongsberg Geospatial will present the Control Stations in addition to shipboard system interfaces.
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he Shield.AI V-BAT is an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) geared up for shipborne operations and confirmed throughout hundreds of hours of shipboard operations for shoppers together with the US Navy, Marine Corps and US Coast Guard. The V-BAT can carry a number of ISR sensor payloads concurrently to offer quite a lot of tactical mission capabilities over land and at sea. Its distinctive design requires no ship modifications to allow ease of storage, ease of passage by normal hatches and secure launch/restoration off a ship deck in excessive sea states.
“Shield.AI recognizes the importance of working with established Canadian companies and building on the important contributions that Canadian industry partners can play in the global growth of Shield.AI,” mentioned Brandon Tseng, President, and Chief Growth Officer of Shield.AI. “We will build on these relationships with Voyageur Aviation and Kongsberg Geospatial as a part of our growing supply chain network in Canada.”
“We are very pleased to join Team V-Bat to leverage our strong Canadian capability in delivering aircraft maintenance and in-service support solutions for the Canadian Forces,” mentioned Cory Cousineau, President of Voyageur Aviation Corp. “Our in-depth experience as an operator on deployed missions will help ensure that we deliver reliable and available operations for the RCN.”
“Kongsberg Geospatial is proud to join Team V-Bat. Kongsberg Geospatial has extensive experience across the breadth of defence ISR systems and particularly as a supplier of unmanned systems control systems and sensor data management solutions. We will bring these made-in-Canada capabilities to Team V-Bat to help deliver a world-class, operational Canadian capability based on the best-of-breed aircraft in this category,” mentioned Jordan Freed, president of Kongsberg Geospatial.
Together Voyageur Aviation, Shield.AI and Kongsberg Geospatial (Team V-BAT) will supply the Royal Canadian Navy a excessive-performing and confirmed UAS supported by Canadian companions for each home and world operations.
Please see Team V-Bat and the plane at DEFSEC (Halifax) on Oct 5 – sixth 2022 in sales space P109-110.
About Voyageur Aviation:
Voyageur Aviation Corp. is an entirely-owned subsidiary of Chorus Aviation Inc. (TSX: CHR), an organization whose imaginative and prescient is to ship regional aviation to the world.
Voyageur Aviation Corp. delivers progressive options to clients with distinctive aviation necessities and operates below the core rules of complete security administration, high quality assurance, and consumer-centered options. www.voyav.com
About Shield.AI:
Shield AI is a enterprise-backed firm constructed round a workforce of confirmed executives, warfighters with related nationwide safety expertise, and world-class AI engineers. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, CA with satellite tv for pc workplaces throughout the United States and overseas. Shield AI’s merchandise and persons are at present within the subject actively supporting operations with the US Department of Defense and allies. For extra info, go to www.protect.ai. Media contact: [email protected]
About Kongsberg Geospatial:
Based in Ottawa, Canada, Kongsberg Geospatial creates precision actual-time software program for mapping, geospatial visualization, and situational consciousness. Kongsberg Geospatial has pioneered highly effective new options for UAS functions. These embody IRIS UxS™ – an airspace situational consciousness and UAS management system for BVLOS flight operations, each for particular person plane and for fleet operations with a number of semi-autonomous plane and MDCS, a multi-area C2 utility developed primarily based on the IRIS UxS structure to permit operators to handle a number of unmanned programs for multi-area missions; and MIDAS™ – a close to actual-time system for processing, exploiting, and disseminating (PED) sensor knowledge from Unmanned Systems. Kongsberg Geospatial is a subsidiary of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace.
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