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  July 20, 2022

  BIND 4.0 | Call for proposal

  The BIND 4.0 International Open Call for Startups to apply for the chance to put innovation into action with paid contracts with industry leaders, is now active and accepting applications! Who do we Work With? Young companies worldwide developing solutions that can be applied to the Intelligent Industry, Clean Energy & Sustainability, Health Tech and/or Food Tech sectors for our 65+ Corporate Partners based in the Basque Country, Spain. The technologies of interest are wide ranging and not limited to: AI, Cybersecurity, Big Data Analytics, IOT/IIOT, Smart Energy, AR/VR, Machine or Artificial Vision, Collaborative Robotics, Additive Manufacturing, Biobased Solutions, Clean Tech, New Materials, NanoTech, Medical Devices, Smart Sensors, etc. Why BIND 4.0 Open Innovation & Acceleration Program? It is a government sponsored initiative with 6 years of proven track record accelerating over 160 International Startups and catalyzing countless business opportunities. 45K Average Contract Amount 65+ Big Name Reference Clients High Impact Acceleration, Mentoring & Support Zero Equity Taken & No Fee to Participate Please Share our International Startup Open Call. If you'd like us to prepare something targeted to your newsletter or startup portfolio please let us know. Easily share our latest social media posts and upcoming Webinar events via the links below. Key Details and links: Startup Open Call, Accepting Applications Deadline Sep 8, 2022 BIND 4.0 Webinar Presentation with Alumni July 28, 2022 BIND 4.0 Webinar Presentation with Alumni Aug 30, 2022 BIND 4.0 2022 Program Catalogue 2022 Catalogue BIND 4.0 Website For More Resources www.BIND40.com HTML Email Open Call Announcement Link to Email Message LinkedIn Open Call Post BIND 4.0 2022 Open Call Twitter Open Call Publication BIND 4.0 2022 Open Call We Value Collaborative Partnerships. Remember, for our Collaborative Partners with relevant topics and programs, we offer event promotion via our alumni newsletter or social media, targeted startup referrals, plus networking via invitations to innovation events. Have Any Startup Recommendations? Send us a quick email with any Startups that you think could be a good fit for our immersion, acceleration and open innovation program. Send their contact info so we can reach out to them directly and fast track their application based on your referral. Startups can set up a 1:1 Meeting with us, or if you'd rather send them this Link to Apply, the application deadline is September 8th.

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  December 3, 2020

  Aviation Startups Making Progress, But Can They Disrupt The Industry?

  Graham Warwick December 02, 2020 The concept of a minimum viable product is not new to aviation. It is how the industry started. But as aircraft technology has advanced, customers have come to expect more than a minimum capability. Along comes Silicon Valley's startup culture, with its drive to find a foothold from which to launch a new technology—a less-than-perfected product that can be developed quickly to disrupt or create a market. How well is that going for aviation? From autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) to hybrid-electric and hydrogen propulsion, is there a viable product taking shape that can perform a valuable mission? Autonomy The vision: unmanned cargo aircraft plying the skies to meet the ever-growing express logistics needs of the e-commerce giants. The reality: a pair of startups that are converting the Cessna Caravan into a remotely piloted regional cargo aircraft as a first step. The goal is that supervised autonomy would enable several aircraft to be managed by one remote pilot on the ground, increasing aircraft utilization and reducing operating costs. Reliable Robotics and Xwing plan to operate their aircraft manned initially, the autonomy advising the pilot while accumulating the experience required to certify the system. The companies hope to begin commercial flights by 2022. There are plenty of startups pursuing the express logistics market with unmanned cargo aircraft, but by targeting an existing market—several hundred Caravans fly as freight feeders for package carriers—and modifying an already certified aircraft and taking a staged approach to introducing autonomy, these two companies hope to lower the certification hurdles. Artificial Intelligence The vision: automated aircraft flown by machine-learning algorithms that replicate the skills of human pilots but not their mistakes. The reality: The initial approach is to use AI to help the pilot in high-workload phases of flight, such as landing. Swiss startup Daedalean is developing a camera-based system to provide safe landing guidance for general-aviation aircraft and vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles. Airbus has the longer-term goal of bringing autonomy to its commercial aircraft but has started in the same place, demonstrating fully automatic vision-based takeoffs and landings with an A350 in April. By tackling one well-defined subtask of visual flying, and proving the system can be safer than human piloting, Daedalean hopes to create the path to certification of AI for safety-critical applications. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency, which has been working with the startup to frame the rules, expects the first AI applications to be certified in 2022. Hybrid-Electric The vision: propulsion systems that overcome the limitations of batteries to deliver the economic and emissions benefits of electrification in larger, faster, longer-range aircraft. The reality: Starting small, startups Ampaire and VoltAero are testing power trains in converted Cessna 337 Skymasters. Ampaire's route to market is to modify existing aircraft, beginning with the Skymaster as the four-seat, 200-mi. Electric EEL but moving on to the 19-seat de Havilland Canada Twin Otter. France's VoltAero, meanwhile, is taking the clean-sheet approach with plans for a family of hybrid-electric aircraft with up to 10 seats and 800-mi. range. Delivery of the initial four-seat Cassio 330 version is planned for 2023. While batteries have improved enough to make pure-electric urban air taxis feasible, longer ranges are still out of reach. But there are startups working to field all-electric nine- and 19-seat aircraft within just a couple of years of the first hybrid-electric types. It remains to be seen whether hybrid propulsion is just a stopgap, as with cars, or a long-term market niche. Hydrogen The vision: zero-emissions flight for aircraft of all sizes and ranges. The reality: adapting automotive fuel-cell technology to modify regional turboprops and kick-start the market for green hydrogen as an aviation fuel. ZeroAvia made the first flight of a six-seater with a fuel-cell power train from Cranfield, England, in September and plans a 300-mi. demonstration flight. The startup's route to market is to modify existing 10- and 20-seaters to hydrogen-electric propulsion, aiming for its first certification within three years. Universal Hydrogen is more ambitious, targeting the 50-seat de Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 for conversion to hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion for market entry by 2024. Introducing a new fuel to aviation is an infrastructure issue. By starting small, the startups believe the challenge of producing green hydrogen can be made manageable. But to have an impact on aviation's contribution to climate change, hydrogen needs to be scaled up to larger and larger aircraft as quickly as possible. https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/emerging-technologies/aviation-startups-making-progress-can-they-disrupt-industry

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  November 2, 2020

  USAF issues RFI for directed energy C-UAS technologies

  by Pat Host The US Air Force (USAF) is requesting information from industry about directed energy (DE) capabilities for counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) technologies. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Architecture and Integration Directorate (AFLCMC/XA) seeks to better characterise the technological, manufacturing, and performance capabilities of the industrial base to develop and produce upgrades to DE prototypes and related C-UAS subsystems. The directorate will use this information to inform its trade space analysis of solutions for engagement and mission level modelling and simulation (M&S), as well as programme cost estimates for potential future technical maturation of DE C-UAS systems. The USAF wants to research the industrial base for C-UAS capabilities related to fixed-site Air Base Air Defense (ABAD) against potential Group 1 and 2 UAS threats, which weigh 25 kg or less. These threats may have characteristics such as small size; low radar cross sections; low infrared (IR) or radio frequency (RF) signatures, or no RF signatures at all; the ability to hover; and low-altitude flight capabilities, which may render them difficult to detect and defeat. Additionally, these UASs are typically either controlled remotely from a ground control station (GCS) or can fly pre-programmed routes. Recent and pending procurements of DE C-UAS weapons require even further development and improvement, including connected and related, but not limited to, subsystems such as command-and-control (C2) suites, radar, and electronic warfare (EW). https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/usaf-issues-rfi-for-directed-energy-c-uas-technologies