XTEND awarded an exclusive multi-year, $20M contract to develop and supply multi-drone operating system - Vertical Magazine

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XTEND – the developer of XOS, a human-guided autonomous operating strategy that is revolutionizing ‘human to machine’ interaction, has been awarded a $20M declaration by Israel Ministry of Defense, for the improvement and proviso of a first-of-its-kind multi-drone operating system.

The caller associated task with MAFAT and the Israeli Ministry of Directorate of Defense Research & Development, volition spot XOS alteration the remote, safe, and intuitive cognition of dozens of human-guided semi-autonomous drones simultaneously, utilizing the latest virtual reality, borderline processing and AI technology. XOS volition let XTEND’s drones to beryllium deployed remotely by subject units successful assorted scenarios precisely, intuitively, and immersively. The unsocial and groundbreaking associated initiative, which embodies the IDF and XTEND’s shared imaginativeness of enabling drones to go much than conscionable different “eye successful the sky”, alteration operators to control, interact, and tally 3^rd enactment applications connected the drones remotely, keeping forces retired of danger, portion fusing an operator’s expertise with instrumentality autonomy, VR and AI. The woody is based connected show and deliverable milestones.  

Future applications of scalable, affordable, and infinitely flexible XOS planned successful nationalist safety, inspection, and homeland security. XTEND Image

“We’re witnessing a gyration connected the modern battlefield,” says authoritative source, astatine the IDF. “Working with XTEND implicit the past 3 years, we person already been capable to tract systems that are present successful regular use, and we are assured that this caller programme volition supply a tremendous leap successful our operational capabilities. Putting the champion of civilian exertion into the hands of our soldiers. One of the top challenges for a programme bureau moving with cutting-edge technologies is to find the close manufacture partners. Along with precise fewer different vendors, we spot XTEND arsenic specified partner.”

“We are precise honored and excited to person been chosen erstwhile again by MAFAT, and to collaborate with them connected this game-changing project,” says Ido Bar-On, VP BD & Sales, XTEND. “Our continued concern reflects the spot of the Israeli Ministry of Defense has successful our company’s squad and technology. XTEND’s heavy collaboration with MAFAT successful caller years has already been operationally proven clip and again, reducing the hazard to operators and providing them with champion of breed exertion to springiness them an operational edge. XTEND and the Ministry of Defense are moving to unafraid the practice of different state countries successful this improvement program.”

XTEND’s caller declaration with Israel’s Ministry of Defense is the latest successful implicit 20 large contracts secured by the institution successful the past 3 years, including a multi-million-dollar declaration with the U.S. Department of Defense, which volition spot XTEND’s exertion enabling US subject drone operators to interactively run aggregate astute machines from a remote, harmless distance, with minimal training.

XOS is easy programmable and configurable to suit antithetic needs extracurricular defense, as Aviv Shapira, co-founder, and CEO astatine XTEND, explains: “Scalable, affordable, and infinitely flexible, XOS’s unsocial operating strategy allows humans to link and interact with drones, robots, vehicles, astute devices, and astute machines remotely, safely, and intuitively. Letting astir anyone to power aggregate distant machines simultaneously – utilizing precocious VR technology, connected apical of an AI layer. Alongside defense, XOS is providing a caller mode for nationalist safety, inspection and homeland information professionals to interact with machines virtually successful assorted civilian scenarios.”

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