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Vantis and Thales Partner to Build Nation’s First Statewide BVLOS Network
Grand Forks, Oct. 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 11 October 2021
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GRAND FORKS, ND – Vantis, North Dakota’s Statewide Unmanned Aircraft Systems Network, has selected a long-term systems integrator to build out this groundbreaking UAS, or drone, infrastructure across the state. Thales, a global technology leader, was one of three aviation giants providing engineering and integration services being evaluated to enable BVLOS UAS flights on Vantis. A state selection committee made up of members from the North Dakota Department of Commerce and Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS), which administers Vantis, selected Thales as the long-term systems integrator for Vantis design, operations and maintenance.
“We’re excited for the next phase of our partnership with Thales,” said James Cieplak, program manager of Vantis. “They were chosen not only because of their outstanding technical performance and innovative approach to building this system, but because they provide the best long-term value to the state. Thales shares our vision for what a partnership of this magnitude could achieve, and for Vantis as the future of the UAS industry.”
One of the major barriers to commercial UAS flights – package deliveries, infrastructure inspections, search and rescue efforts – is that UAS currently must remain within visual line of sight of the pilot. Vantis is a State of North Dakota-funded technology infrastructure that uses radar, radios, and other communications equipment on towers distributed throughout the state to provide command, control, and situational awareness to UAS pilots flying aircraft within the network’s coverage area. With Vantis, UAS pilots can see and avoid obstacles and fly safely at a
distance – which means commercial UAS flights that are economically feasible and scalable to the size of business.
“North Dakota continues to be the nation’s proving ground for the testing, training and commercialization of unmanned aircraft systems, and this partnership with Thales to build out the first-of-its-kind Vantis statewide network will help cement our state’s reputation as a UAS leader,” said North Dakota Lt. Gov. Brent Sanford, who chairs the Northern Plains Unmanned Systems Authority. “Our state’s nearly $50 million investment in this groundbreaking technology is attracting companies, jobs and entrepreneurs and diversifying our economy for the benefit of all North Dakotans.”
As the systems integration partner for Vantis, Thales will deploy new communications and surveillance infrastructure in phases across the state. This infrastructure will be supported by a Mission and Network Operations Center (MNOC) that uses the State of North Dakota’s fiber optic telecommunications network along with robust digital services deployed on cloud-based infrastructure to support operational resilience.
Vantis infrastructure has been installed at key sites in western North Dakota, where testing is currently underway. Testing standards were developed in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ensure they are rigorous, do not interfere with existing manned aviation operations, and to prove the safety and reliability of Vantis moving forward. Currently, approvals to fly BVLOS must be obtained directly from the FAA on an individual basis. Working with the FAA as the Vantis network is built out and proven will enable any operator who flies on the network to receive the appropriate approvals to facilitate true BVLOS flights – something that does not exist at this scale anywhere in the country.
“BVLOS operations are the greatest economic driver for sustained commercial UAS use-cases and, until now, there hasn’t been any common, or shared-use, infrastructure to support routine BVLOS operations,” said Todd Donovan, Vice President, Airspace Mobility Solutions, Americas, Thales. “Ultimately, the approach for unmanned systems with Vantis in North Dakota will likely shape how we approach UAS integration more broadly.”
As the system matures, Vantis will continue its expansion across the state. The expansion strategy targets areas with existing use cases where commercial interests and capable UAS operators intersect, such as the initial stage in North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields. The second stage of implementation will include the Red River Valley, priming Vantis to support businesses in two of the state’s largest metropolitan areas as well as one of the major agricultural regions in the state. Then, Vantis will begin connecting these major economic powerhouse areas across North Dakota.
“BVLOS flights are the future of UAS. They are how we achieve repeatable, scalable, economically viable commercial UAS services,” said Trevor Woods, interim executive director of NPUASTS. “Vantis, through our partnership with Thales USA, is making that future a reality. We’re building the blueprint for commercial BVLOS flights across the country.”
About Vantis
Vantis is North Dakota’s statewide unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) network, the first of its kind in the nation. Created by North Dakota with an initial investment in 2019, Vantis provides turnkey support to commercial and public UAS operators through infrastructure and regulatory approvals allowing applications and usability over a variety of industries. Visit VantisUAS.com for more information.
About the Northern Plains UAS Test Site
The Northern Plains UAS Test Site is one of seven Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test sites in the nation. The mission of the NPUASTS is to collaborate with FAA and industry partners to develop systems, rules, and procedures to safely integrate unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace System without negatively impacting existing general or commercial aviation. NPUASTS is administering Vantis.
About Thales
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations –connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust, which is vital to the development of our societies. The company provides solutions, services and products that help its customers –businesses, organisations and states – in the defense, aeronautics, space, transportation and digital identity and security markets to fulfil their critical missions, by placing humans at the heart of the decision-making process.
With 81,000 employees in 68 countries, Thales generated sales of €17 billion in 2020 (on a basis including Gemalto over 12 months).
In the United States, Thales has conducted significant research and development, manufacturing, and service capabilities for more than 100 years. Today, Thales is present in 22 states, operating 46 different facilities and employing nearly 4,000 people. Working closely with U.S. customers and local partners, Thales is able to meet the most complex requirements for every operating environment.
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Synthetik Applied Technologies LLC announces development of UrbanScale – a modeling platform for the prediction, characterization, and quantification of extreme urban heat
AUSTIN, Texas and LONDON, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Synthetik Applied Technologies announces the development of UrbanScale, a tool to model and predict effects of extreme heat in urban areas, through a project funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). The physical characteristics of urban areas amplify heat effects resulting in what are known as urban heat islands — areas where surface temperatures are much higher than their surroundings. The UrbanScale tool addresses this climate peril with sophisticated analytic tools based on physics informed neural networks and cutting-edge machine learning to predict urban heat and help better understand and mitigate the risks associated with these extreme heat events. As a result of climate change, these events are expected to increase, impacting both the people that live in urban areas and the infrastructure on which they depend.
The UrbanScale platform shows significant promise to provide data on the severity of heat islands and their effects to better understand how they impact human health, energy use and damage to physical infrastructure. This information will provide a step-change in capability for government agencies, urban planners, and transportation authorities to direct efforts for mitigation and intervention. In particular, inclusion of demographic information into data pipelines will allow understanding of how urban heat effects may impact vulnerable or disadvantaged populations. Integration with climate forecasts and models will also provide unprecedented capabilities for forecasting risk associated with climate change.
Josh Hatfield, Director of Research and Development at Synthetik, said:
‘We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to study such an important issue. Extreme heat is already the largest cause of weather-related fatalities in the US, and climate change will only increase the importance of understanding heat in urban environments. Helping to meet that challenge fits directly into Synthetik’s mission.’
Synthetik COO Tim Brewer commented:
‘The UrbanScale tool will allow both our government and insurance partners to better characterize the risk of extreme heat in urban centers and promises to deliver critical insight on the way these events impact energy demands. We look forward to exploring its wide-ranging applications.’
Synthetik plans further development of UrbanScale with NOAA and other partners in the public and private sector.
For all inquiries: Contact Synthetik Applied Technologies PR [email protected]
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GLiNTECH – a Valiantys company, wins Atlassian Partner of the Year 2023 Services (APAC) award. Valiantys and GLiNTECH declared Finalists for Team Excellence and ITSM Solutions
PARIS, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Atlassian announced today that GLiNTECH – a Valiantys company has won the Atlassian Partner of the Year 2023 Services (APAC) award. Valiantys and GLiNTECH were further declared finalists for the Team Excellence and ITSM Solutions awards, respectively.
This is an acknowledgement of their outstanding work for Atlassian customers during the calendar year 2023. This includes exceptional efforts in developing new business and driving innovative solutions for customer success.
“Our industry leading partners play a vital role in our customers’ continued success. We’re honored to highlight our top partners as award finalists this year, reflecting their ongoing commitment to delivering innovative solutions and unparalleled Atlassian services globally,” said Ko Mistry, Atlassian’s Head of Global Channels.
“We are delighted to be named as finalists for these awards from Atlassian, and we are particularly proud to celebrate GLiNTECH’s achievement in winning the Services (APAC) award.” said Emmanuel Benoit, Global Chief Executive Officer, Valiantys. “At Valiantys, embracing diversity of thought and challenging the ways our teams work has always provided Valiantys with a competitive edge to consistently deliver tangible results and value. We look to the future with unwavering determination and confidence as we continue to drive innovation and unlock potential for our customers around the globe.”
“We dedicate our IT Consulting Services and Custom Solutions to fulfilling our customers’ needs for success,” commented Dimitri Spyridopoulos, Chief Executive Officer GLiNTECH – a Valiantys company. “It’s an honor to be recognized by Atlassian as a finalist in two categories that reflect these efforts: Services and ITSM Solutions, and to be declared as winner for the Services award (APAC).”
For more information regarding this Press Release, contact: [email protected]
About Valiantys
Valiantys is a leading global consulting and services firm dedicated to Atlassian. The company accelerates business transformation by digitizing processes and modernizing teamwork, using the best agile methods and tools. Its Atlassian technical expertise is unparalleled and Valiantys supports its customers across the entire spectrum of projects on those platforms. As a recognized Agile at Scale, ITSM, and Cloud Specialized Partner, Valiantys help organizations accelerate time to value with Agile at scale, cloud, and ITSM implementations. Because teamwork requires more than just tools, the firm bridges the gap between applications and strategic practices such as SAFe® and ITIL. Over the last 15 years, Valiantys has helped more than 5,000 customers achieve their desired business outcomes at a reduced time to value, through improved team collaboration. More information about Valiantys can be found at https://www.valiantys.com/
About GLiNTECH – a Valiantys Company
GLiNTECH is a renowned Atlassian Platinum Partner headquartered in Australia and is the preferred choice for over 300 leading brands. The company has amassed more than 20 years of experience servicing enterprise clients across the Asia Pacific region, earning Atlassian Partner of the Year five times, including most recently for Professional Services. GLiNTECH is recognized as a Specialized Atlassian Cloud and ITSM partner. The company offers deep expertise in Licensing, Training, Support, Managed Services, Consulting, and Agile methodologies and has a proven record in providing reliable solutions while driving success within the Atlassian ecosystem. More information about GLiNTECH can be found here: https://www.glintech.com/
GLiNTECH was acquired by Valiantys in February 2024.
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Nillion is pleased to announce that Dwinity, a team pioneering decentralized AI has joined as an ecosystem partner
ZUG, Switzerland and MUNICH, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — With huge amounts of personal data being collected every day, privacy concerns are escalating as the impact of data breaches become more costly. The need to address the problems created by the existing data economy have never been greater. By empowering users to reclaim control, Dwinity aims to unlock an enormous amount of potential for personal data to enhance various industries like healthcare, insurance, and finance.
About Dwinity
Dwinity’s mission is to give power back to users and to create a thriving data economy in which information asymmetry is finally removed. Dwinity enables a decentralized data economy as well as creates a data ownership driven ecosystem for storage, analysis, exchange, and commercialization of sensitive personal data.
The three components of Dwinity are:
Data control: Decentralized data spaces for decentralized data storage which provides true data sovereignty and enables users to decide with whom data is shared.Data Gold: Decentralized AI tools for each data space have the capability to unlock the full potential of data via sophisticated analysis.Data Cash: A fair marketplace with automated data value analysis, allowing for tangible income for data owners at lower costs and completely anonymous.Dwinity is presently closing its initial seed round at USD 3 MN – funds which will be used for the development of the initial prototypes to hit the market already in 2024.
About Nillion
Nillion is humanity’s first Blind Computer. It is powered by a decentralized network of nodes that enables “Blind Computation” through the coordination and orchestration of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) such as multi-party computation (MPC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP). Nillion believes Blind Computation will become the internet’s base layer for all private data as PETs continue to mature. Nillion has attracted a notable initial cohort of Blind Computation builders across AI, DeFi, medical data, custody, wallets, global identity, messaging and more.
The Nillion development company, Nilogy, was incubated by CoinList’s seed program. Nilogy’s Founding CTO was the Founding Engineer of Uber (Conrad Whelan), the Chief Strategy Officer was the Founding CMO of Hedera Hashgraph (Andrew Masanto), the Chief Business Officer is the Founder of Indiegogo (Slava Rubin), the General Counsel was the Associate General Counsel of Coinbase (Lindsay Danas Cohen), along with builders hailing from Consensys, LayerZero, Polygon and Google.
“This is a major step on our way to building the leading ecosystem for sensitive data together with one of the top players in the market for the handling of such valuable data. We are looking forward to the cooperation which will add significant trust and competence to both initiatives”, said Peter Koenig, CEO of Dwinity.
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Contact for this publication: Christian Mangold [email protected]
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