Protect AI, the protection know-how firm constructing the world’s greatest AI pilot, introduced at present that the U.S. Coast Guard has awarded the corporate a $198,106,876 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity agency fixed-price contract to supply Contractor Owned Contractor Operated (COCO) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) providers. This service might be applied utilizing the V-BAT unmanned plane system (UAS).

“We’re excited to help the U.S. Coast Guard with their ISR operations. All maritime vessels will turn into drone carriers as maritime forces transfer to deploy distributed, reasonably priced, clever drones. V-BAT’s choice by the U.S. Coast Guard is indicative of a broader marker motion the place more and more prospects are recognizing they’ll accomplish the overwhelming majority of their mission units with reasonably priced drones quite than beautiful, costly crewed or uncrewed plane,” mentioned Brandon Tseng, Protect AI’s President, Co-founder, and former Navy SEAL.

The V-BAT collection plane is the one operationally deployed single-engine ducted fan vertical takeoff and land (VTOL) UAS that may launch and get better from a hover and fly on wing in horizontal flight. With greater than 5 years of persistent operational expertise at sea, U.S. and worldwide prospects view the V-BAT as a versatile platform able to performing Group 2 to Group 5 UAS missions and past.

About Protect AI

Based in 2015, Protect AI is a venture-backed protection know-how firm whose mission is to guard service members and civilians with clever methods. In pursuit of this mission, Protect AI is constructing the world’s greatest AI pilot. Its AI pilot, Hivemind, has flown jets (F-16; MQM-178 Firejet), a vertical takeoff and touchdown drone (MQ-35 V-BAT), and three quadcopters (Nova, Nova 2, iPRD). The corporate has workplaces in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and overseas. Protect AI’s merchandise and persons are at the moment within the discipline actively supporting operations with the U.S. Division of Protection and U.S. allies. For extra info, go to www.protect.ai.