The brand new man is far smoother and extra energetic than the Huge Wynne. AUVSI has one other likelihood to get with this system and advocate as an alternative of obfuscate for its members. I want the affiliation one of the best of luck with the brand new course.
Revisionist historical past and misremembering historic particulars are rampant. I normally keep away from the keynotes as a result of it’s exhausting to not yell BS out loud throughout some displays. Some have recommended to me up to now that it could possibly be thought-about impolite. I don’t know that misinforming individuals who paid to get in is pleasant, however then once more, I’m not identified for my decorum.
The panel discussions are much more difficult to abdomen as they make me bodily sick. How anybody can arise in entrance of individuals and say we’d like knowledge and methods to gather it at this level takes some large stones. The institutional inanity goes on unchecked and unabated, leaving me questioning the place are the Crayolas.
AUVSI continues to be attempting to determine how one can juggle two promenade dates with DJI and the DoD. Among the members are disgruntled about AUVSI’s public anti-DJI stance. Many know what that stark actuality means to them: again to the desk and not attending to be the unbelievable hi-tech knowledgeable Greatest Purchase drone dude within the workplace. I’m not the one one nonetheless shocked concerning the apathy among the many “important infrastructure” gurus. That may’t even be bothered to comb the unrefutably knowledge assortment downside beneath the rug. People in the neighborhood who’ve had publicity to intelligence-gathering ideas are shocked by the platitudes and naivety.
-A little bit larger than final yr however nonetheless smaller than earlier than the height drone period.
The Chinese language distributors appeared just a little shocked by the chilly reception and PRC questions. I assume nobody talked about that throughout the sales space gross sales name. Different Asian international locations and producers made a great displaying, and that’s at all times good to see. There’s nonetheless an absence of carpet within the aisles, and people are complaining about their ft.
There are few viable C-UAS options, and that scenario is sort of as unhealthy because the NAS integration debacle. Thank God we’re out of Afghanistan because the IEDs have developed right into a dynamic drone supply operation. CONUS, we get a bag of chips; OCONUS, they will drop one within the pickle barrel and save the drone. These FPV grenadiers have gotten some loopy abilities! Possibly the Russians ought to implement an occupied territory drone RID scheme? Simply throwing it on the market as everybody else on the Western CAAs contends it’s 100% viable. 😉
This can be a Overseas Coverage Challenge; seems to be the brand new tune everybody whistles previous the graveyard. I don’t find out about you, Rube, however these Ukrainian YouTube movies are beginning to give me some homeland insecurity points.
Anybody nonetheless ready for the Silicon Valley VCs to finest the present C-UAS answer of DJI AeroScope and name the sheriff or a aggressive USA drone answer and not using a billion {dollars} of funding may wish to take it straightforward with the CBD gummies.
Anyway, I’m searching for consumers, as are the international navy distributors I’ve spoken to. Expo24 is undoubtedly not a Eurosatory sort of present. I haven’t encountered anybody with bulging pockets full of cash prepared to write down checks.
All that apart, I had a good dialog with among the outdated guard and a shout-out to all the oldsters who stopped to say hey and the way a lot they loved the sUAS Information and the no-nonsense punditry.
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People within the know gained’t even snort after I ask, so what do you concentrate on Half 108 this yr?
