What is Agility Prime? From their website:
"The Air Force recently launched Agility Prime, a non-traditional program seeking to accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles (i.e., "flying cars").
Leveraging unique testing resources and revenue generating government use cases for distributed logistics and disaster response, the government plans to mitigate current commercial market and regulatory risks.
Agility Prime also aims to bring together industry, investor, and government communities to establish safety and security standards while accelerating commercialization of this revolutionary technology.
The Innovative Capabilities Opening, below, establishes a rapid contracting mechanism beginning in 2020 with a “Race to Certification” series to drive government procurement of operational capability by 2023."
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Driving Innovation With US Armed Forces
Enelect led a team with Flint Hills Group (FHG) and Lockheed Martin at AFWERX Fusion in Vegas this past week. We were one of the carefully selected technology companies competing to work with the United States Armed Forces. Cutting edge technology was presented by all companies in efforts to help the US armed forces survive and win in a hostile world.

Our DR-SLAM (Detect & Recognize - Simultaneously Locate and Map) solution supports Find-Fix-Track-Target (F2T2) operations by simultaneously localizing and mapping incoming video or still images from Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs). With this, it creates an immediate and immersive 3D reconstruction with multi-object detection and recognition through the application of deep / machine learning methods.

This cutting-edge technology solution leverages drones, high definition 3-D mapping and real-time object identification to quickly identify targets of interest before they prove to be a threat to US forces.
The solution leverages these key steps:

1. Find: Identify a target. Find a target within surveillance, reconnaissance data or via intelligence means.
2. Fix: Fix the target’s location. Obtain specific coordinates for the target either from existing data or by collecting additional data.
3. Track: Monitor the target’s movement. Keep track of the target until either a decision is made not to engage the target or the target is successfully engaged.
4. Target: Select an appropriate weapon or asset to use on the target to create desired effects. Apply command and control capabilities to assess the value of the target and the availability of appropriate weapons to engage it.
5. Engage: Apply the weapon to the target.
6. Assess: Evaluate effects of the attack, including any intelligence gathered at the location.

This is an integrated, end-to-end process described as a “chain” because an interruption at any stage can interrupt the entire process.
Watch this amazing video of how DR-SLAM works:

Enelect is partnering with Lockheed Martin and Flint Hills Group at AFWERX Fusion Xperience in Las Vegas! A Multi-Domain Operations Challenge that includes remote viewing, drone ops, 3D mapping and machine/deep learning technologies. From their website:
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"Over the course of two days, there will be live demos, keynote presentations and panels from top Air Force, industry, and academic experts, in addition to a showcase of more than 80 companies exhibiting their solutions for Multi-Domain-Operations. Join us alongside top U.S. Air Force leaders, the AFWERX team, industry experts, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs."

Terry Chapas, founder & CEO of Enelect, guest stars in Episode 194 of the Pre-Accident Investigation podcast. Him and colleague Travis Brock discuss the future of UAS technology and safety with host Todd Conklin.

Click the image to access the podcast.


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