Spotlight

Great news for entrepreneurs and small businesses! Vertical Innovations is back for 2025 with a new technology licensing and commercialization opportunity now in the UASCI Vertical Marketplace.

This month's opportunity is the Passive Infrared UAV Detector from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, with licensing and commercialization support from TechLink. This technology is designed to address the challenge of detecting small drones that pose risks to privacy, security, and public safety. The technology utilizes a specially designed IR detector and software system to identify the image signatures of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while discriminating objects in real world environments including birds, buildings, trees.

On the Vertical Innovations video, Kinsley Jordan of UASCI presents an overview of the Passive Infrared UAV Detector including the challenges of identifying UAVs, unique capabilities of the technology, potential applications and opportunities, and more.

To find out more about this and other groundbreaking tech from top universities and federal labs go to the UAS Cluster Initiative Vertical Marketplace

Note that registration is required but free. Don't miss out—register today and join the future of vertical innovation!

It's always a good time to visit UASCI's Vertical Marketplace. Through the marketplace you can discover technology opportunities in Vertical Innovations section, watch Rethink Vertical podcasts, view previous Vert Brief newsletters, and access UASCI publications and resources. To access the marketplace, registration is required but free.

Don't miss out—register today!

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