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ANRA Technologies undertaking connects unmanned air, marine, and floor automobiles at the Port of Virginia in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
— Brent Klavon, ANRA Chief Strategy Officer
PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — A undertaking performed on Wednesday in Portsmouth demonstrated the advantages of unmanned programs expertise to reinforce safety and emergency response at the Port of Virginia and the Hampton Roads area. The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) and the Virginia Institute for Space Flight and Autonomy (VISA) at Old Dominion University (ODU) sponsored the undertaking, which ANRA Technologies applied at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal.
During the daylong expertise demonstration, ANRA, which relies in Reston, utilized its single software program platform that connects and integrates unmanned aerial, marine and floor automobiles to offer public security companies with improved and enhanced security, safety, and operational effectiveness.
“This project showed the benefits of utilizing three domains of unmanned systems technology to heighten situational awareness,” Tracy Tynan, the director of VIPC’s Unmanned Systems Center stated. “ANRA demonstrated a technology that connects assets in the air, on the water and on land to provide public safety agencies with a comprehensive characterization of an operational area that improves security and quickens response times.”
“While unmanned systems technology is playing a bigger role in public safety, it’s necessary to evaluate new solutions to ensure they are useful and integral to the mission,” Chris Sadler, the director of VIPC’s Public Safety Innovation Center stated. “ANRA demonstrated how a perspective from land, sea, and air provides a complete integrated picture of an incident scene, which helps to quickly determine where to deploy vital resources.”
VIPC and VISA additionally chosen Alliance Solutions Group (ASG) of Newport News to take part in the undertaking after a aggressive Announcement of Opportunity (AO) held earlier this 12 months that included proposals submitted by greater than 20 Virginia corporations. ASG will exhibit the ArgusElite Hazmat UAS resolution at one other occasion.
“Hampton Roads presents many security and safety challenges because of its dense population, diverse terrain, severe weather, and numerous defense and government facilities,” David Bowles, the government director of VISA stated. “ANRA’s demonstration at the Port of Virginia showed the critical tools unmanned systems technology enables to support first responders as they serve and protect the citizens of this region.”
The train that includes ANRA’s resolution is the newest part of the Port Security and Emergency Response Unmanned Systems Demonstration Project, which VIPC and VISA launched in summer season 2021 at a public security workshop at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) in Suffolk. First responders from native, state, and federal companies offered perception into the challenges of defending one of the largest seaports on the East Coast and responding to emergencies in Virginia’s largest populated area.
“This effort went beyond just visualizing live tracking of assets,” stated ANRA’s Chief Strategy Officer Brent Klavon. “We believe this may have been the very first live demo integrating uncrewed assets into a common operational and networked 4D environment that also included numerous data sources such as AIS, ADS-B, weather, NOTAMs, and Broadcast Remote ID.”
Following the workshop, VIPC and VISA hosted a summit at the Nauticus Center in Norfolk to tell Virginia’s unmanned programs trade of the undertaking’s objectives and goals. In January, they invited Virginia corporations to answer the AO with proposals using their tools and options to deal with the points the public security officers recognized.
VIPC offered greater than $100,000 to fund the undertaking, and VISA organized and managed it. They will consider and measure the innovation, testing, adoption, and success of the expertise demonstrations based mostly on the necessities the public security neighborhood outlined throughout the workshop.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) introduced at the occasion on Wednesday that it’ll present funding to the undertaking to conduct three extra unmanned programs expertise demonstrations. The funding may even help a undertaking report by the Center for Naval Analyses in Arlington.
“The Port of Virginia is a valuable business asset that contributes billions to the commonwealth’s economy,” Shawn Talmadge, the State Coordinator of Emergency Management at VDEM stated. “When dredging operations are completed in 2024, it will once again be the deepest port on the East Coast. The unmanned systems this project is testing will enhance security for the increased traffic that is anticipated from the largest vessels calling on our port.”
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About Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC)
Connecting innovators with alternatives. The nonprofit operations arm of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA), VIPC is the commercialization and seed stage financial growth driver in the Commonwealth that leads funding, infrastructure, and coverage initiatives to help Virginia’s innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, and market growth methods. VIPC collaborates with native, regional, state, and federal companions to help the growth and diversification of Virginia’s economy.
Programs embrace: Virginia Venture Partners (VVP) | VVP Fund of Funds (SSBCI) | Virginia Founders Fund (VFF) |Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) | Smart Communities | Unmanned Systems | Advanced Air Mobility (AAM )| Public Safety Innovation |Entrepreneurial Ecosystems | Regional Innovation Fund (RIF) | Federal Funding Assistance Program (FFAP) for SBIR & STTR | University Partnerships | Startup Company Mentoring & Engagement. For extra data, please go to www.VirginiaIPC.org.
About Virginia Institute for Spaceflight & Autonomy (VISA)
The Virginia Institute for Spaceflight & Autonomy (VISA) is chartered to develop the entrepreneurial ecosystems for house flight and autonomy. The Institute will probably be the hub to leverage Virginia’s world-class property in house launch, autonomous programs, modeling and simulation and information science to resolve real-world issues. Through trade, educational and governmental company partnerships, our imaginative and prescient is to create an surroundings of analysis, expertise, commercialization, and instructional alternatives to develop the spaceflight and autonomous programs trade.
Angela Costello, Vice President of Communications
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC)
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