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Seasats Lightfish H36 is well on its way from Oahu to Guam! On a mission to extend our longest voyage record, Lightfish H36 is making its way from San Diego to Japan. Recently, the Seasats team received the boat in Hawaii for a routine check. After noting no damage or significant wear, the team added an acoustic payload and a second underwater camera before sending it off to Guam. Since leaving San Diego, H36 has successfully traveled over 3,500 nautical miles across 80 days at sea. Follow Lightfish H36’s progress with our livestream track.seasats.com #MaritimeInnovation #Autonomous #BlueTech #Innovation #Robotics
Shield Capital was honored to sponsor the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management "Technology & National Security Conference" again this year. The exchange of dialogue between leaders across academia, government, investment and industry are critical for sustainable national security for the U.S. and our partners and allies. The SHIELD team had great conversations on panels focused on Acquisition Reform & Workarounds, Space and Investing in National Security 2025-2030. Looking forward to next year! Raj S. Philip M. Bilden Michael A. Brown Dan Holland John Serafini Lisa Hill Akhil Iyer David Rothzeid Maggie G. Matt Kaplan
One year on orbit for Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing! Listen to the #ManifestSpace podcast with Morgan Brennan to hear what the team has learned. #MissionMatters #space
Morgan Brennen from CNBC spoke with Ian Cinnamon on #ManifestSpace to discuss one full year on orbit for Aries, Apex’s flexible approach to manufacturing, and "what just 5 grand will buy you at the company." https://lnkd.in/gfQbvRze
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Great article today in DefenseScoop. Danti Founder and CEO Jesse Kallman shares about our journey to build an AI-powered knowledge engine specifically tuned for information tied to physical places: “We wanted to build something that would allow an analyst of any skill level, in a very conversational way, to ask questions of very highly distributed but also very multi-modal data,” he said. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gn9xqw_q
Learn more about Elroy Air’s work building large cargo transportation. #MissionMatters #autonomy #theCUBE
We need more of this in Hudson County NJ Please!!! Andrew Clare, CEO of Elroy Air, discussed the development and benefits of their autonomous aircraft, the Chaparral, in an interview on NYSE Wired during Robotics & AI Media Week. Emphasizing that the Chaparral is designed to be uncrewed from the start, requiring advanced solutions for autonomous control and safety. Two major advantages of autonomy are improved safety—reducing crashes caused by human error—and lower costs, making operations more efficient for commercial clients and safer for defense applications by eliminating risks to human lives in contested areas. Watch Andrew's full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gWqHgZfY SiliconANGLE & theCUBE - John Furrier - David Vellante #nysewired #theCUBE #robotics #aviation #autonmous #ai
For the second year, Shield Capital is please to sponsor the National Security Hackathon, April 26-27, at SHACK15 in San Francisco. Defense is rapidly evolving. It's an honor to partner with category definers Cerebral Valley, Vannevar Labs, IQT (In-Q-Tel), Scale AI, and the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF). Data, compute, and hardware to be provided by Anthropic, Cerebras Systems, Microsoft Azure, Maxar Technologies, Distributed Spectrum, and Code Metal. Apply in the comments below! #MissionMatters #nationalsecurity Maggie G. Akhil Iyer David Rothzeid Lisa Hill Lexi Paulson Matt Kaplan Raj S. Philip M. Bilden Michael A. Brown Dan Holland Meghan McEveety
Great to be on the Albedo rocket ship.
A lot has happened in two weeks. We launched Clarity-1. Made first contact. Transitioned to Protect mode. Commissioned our hardware and operational modes. Completed an on-orbit software update. Hop aboard the rocketship or you'll get left behind 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gK2nD5yk
“Whether you’re a founder, investor, or just tech-curious. This one’s packed with insight!” Shield Capital's own David Rothzeid participated in the The Pair Program’s Podcast with EpiSci (an Applied Intuition company)’s Ceo Bo Ryu. Focusing on “Scaling Horizontally” the conversation unpacked the challenges and opportunities in building and scaling dual-use technology. From startup funding paths to shifting dynamics in the defense sector, the conversation highlighted the future of autonomy, venture capital’s growing role in national security, and what it really takes to bridge commercial innovation with government adoption. Thank you Tim Winkler Michael Gruen for hosting! Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dxMkAPBD
🚨 Announcement: HawkEye 360 has officially joined the U.S. U.S. Space Forces – Space (S4S) – Commercial Integration Cell (CIC)! As a mission partner, we’re proud to support the Space Force by delivering critical RF data to enhance situational awareness and strengthen the resilience of space operations. Read the full press release now on our website: https://bit.ly/427OHuT