• Ford’s Active Drive Assist, a new driver-assist feature that allows for hands-free driving on more than 100,000 miles of divided highways in all 50 states and Canada, relies on the HERE Workspace to determine the locations of hands-free zones.

July 1, 2020

Chicago, IL – HERE Technologies, the leading location data and platform company, today announced that Ford chose the HERE platform to enable its safe hands-free driving. The HERE platform enables Ford to create an availability map that informs Ford vehicles when it’s possible for Active Drive Assist to offer hands-free driving across 100,000 miles of highways in the United States and Canada.

It’s a straightforward process: Ford uses the HERE Workspace to create, develop and scale location-centric data sets and services in one secure environment. The Workspace provides access to HERE map content, dynamic data such as traffic and weather, Location Services and location algorithms such as map-matching, along with comprehensive developer, visualization and analytics tools to power location-based solution development and operation.  

All of the content and tools enable Ford to create their own reliable map. This customized map is a key input into the vehicle via the Ford cloud to determine whether or not hands-free driving is available. Active Drive Assist then fuses the map with...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — July 1, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR^[1]) (TSX: MAXR^[2]), a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Gilman Louie to serve on the company’s Board of Directors. Louie will serve as a Director for a term expiring at the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders when he will stand for election by the stockholders.

Louie, 59, has been the Managing Partner of Alsop Louie Partners, an early stage venture capital fund, since 2006. He was the Chairman of the Board of Vricon, Inc., from 2016 until its acquisition by Maxar, which was completed today. Louie was the first Chief Executive Officer and President of In-Q-Tel, the first venture capital fund for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, from its founding in 1999 until 2006.

Louie is also a director of Niantic, the world leading publisher of augmented reality games, and Aerospike, an open-source, flash-optimized NoSQL database built for enterprise to service large-scale, high-speed transactional applications. He has also served as an advisor to many Department of Defense advisory boards and currently serves as a Commissioner of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, an independent commission that considers the methods and means necessary to...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — July 1, 2020 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR^[1]) (TSX: MAXR^[2]), a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of 3D data and analytics firm Vricon, Inc., for approximately $140 million, or approximately $115 million net of estimated cash at closing.

Vricon is a global leader in satellite-derived 3D data for defense and intelligence markets, with software and products that enhance 3D mapping, Earth intelligence data, military simulation and training and precision-guided munitions. The company was formed as a joint venture between Maxar and Saab in 2015 to combine patented Saab IP with Maxar commercial satellite imagery to build highly accurate, immersive 3D products at scale.

About Maxar

Maxar is a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and navigate our changing planet; deliver global broadband communications; and explore and advance the use of space. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost effectiveness. Maxar’s 4,000...

Ilya Boyandin has developed an easy-to-use online tool that takes location data stored in Google Sheets to visualize interactive flow maps.

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Created by OmniSci Partner BlueConduit, Site Reveals Analysis that Dramatically Improved Hit-Rates for Lead Pipe Replacement Program; Future Predictions, Repair Updates Included

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2020 — (PRNewswire) —  OmniSci^[1], the pioneer in accelerated analytics, working in close partnership with water infrastructure analytics consulting company  ^[2]BlueConduit^[3], today announced the debut of Flint Service Line Map (www.flintpipemap.org^[4]), a public website that maps up-to-date information about residential water service line replacements in the city of Flint, Michigan. These water service lines are the pipes that deliver each home their water. If the pipes are made of lead, they can contaminate that home's water with lead. The problem: Flint, like most other cities, did not know exactly which pipes were lead. Presented in house-by-house detail, the map allows residents to easily find out about their known or likely water service line material, along with repair dates and other useful information.

Flint Service Line Map^[5] is the first site to utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict, with high accuracy, the incidence of lead pipes in residential service water lines. The site is provided as a public service and shows...

BRISTOL, United Kingdom — (BUSINESS WIRE) — July 1, 2020 — Atlas, a global leader in autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in the U.S., U.K. and EU, announced it has been chosen as a UAS provider for the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPAID) Search and Rescue (SAR) Mid-Troms unit, due to its unique capabilities in extreme conditions.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200701005376/en/^[1]

The NPAID Mid-Troms unit is a volunteer SAR unit operating in northern Norway specializing in first response and lifesaving operations in extreme Arctic environments. The unit covers a region of Arctic Norway famous for its sparsely populated mountain ranges and Fjords. The NPAID team ensures the safety of tourists in the region, especially as adventure tourism continues to increase.

As a highly sophisticated and professional task force, NPAID Mid-Troms is an early adopter of new technologies and its project team is constantly seeking tools aimed at optimizing SAR operations. The team selected Atlas as its UAS provider and uses the AtlasPRO in its missions. Due to its unsurpassed capabilities and reliability, the...

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio, July 1, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- These  five outstanding individuals^[1] have demonstrated exceptional work in the use and adoption of precision agriculture technologies and practices. They join 52 individuals and organizations honored by the PrecisionAg Alliance since the creation of the awards in 2007.

The 2020 recipients include:

Crop Adviser/Entrepreneur Award:
Ofir Schlam, Co-Founder and CEO, Taranis
Schlam is a 4th generation farmer, software developer, and computer science expert who merges his background in farming and tech to create precision agriculture technologies.

With Taranis, Schlam has facilitated the technological advancement and distribution of precision farming globally by developing an innovative "digital agronomist" system that sees and analyzes fields at scale and at a depth level that humans cannot.

Under Schlam's leadership, Taranis has grown from a 3-person garage start-up to a 100-employee company with 17 offices globally, 19,000 customers, 20 million acres of land under management, and $30 million in funding. His vision of how precision agriculture can improve farming worldwide has motivated a range of industry players to hop on board.

More than 60 world-class agronomists have combined...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, July 1, 2020 — (PRNewswire) — UAS Drone Corp. (OTC: USDR^[1]) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Duke Robotics, Inc., the purveyor of an innovative military UAS drone with advanced stabilization technology, pursuant to which Duke Robotics became a wholly-owned subsidiary of UAS Drone Corp.

The combined company will focus on Duke Robotics' business, expanding its presence in the military drone market with TIKAD – a UAS Octocopter Integrated with Six Degrees of Freedom ("6 DOF") Robotic Gimbal system that enables remote, real-time firing of small arms and light weapons.

• Pursuant to the previously announced Share Exchange Agreement and the recently completed merger agreement, UAS Drone Corp. acquired a'll of the outstanding capital stock of Duke Robotics in exchange for shares of UAS Drone Corp's common stock issued to the shareholders of Duke Robotics, in an amount equal to 71% of the post-transaction capitalization of UAS Drone Corp.
• Following the completion of the acquisition, Duke Robotics designated the Board of Directors of the combined company and Duke Robotics' senior management holds all key positions in the senior management of the combined company.

About Duke Robotics:

UAS Drone Corp. (OTC: USDR) recently acquired Duke Robotics....

Airbus developed next generation retaskable software defined radio payload to be proven in space

Airbus’ newspace initiative Prometheus will see rapid in-orbit proving of disruptive technology

Stevenage, 01 July 2020 – An Airbus developed next generation retaskable software defined radio payload, Prometheus 1, will be launched on the Faraday-1 cubesat from New Zealand on 3 July. The Faraday-1 mission is part of In Space Missions Ltd’s in-orbit demonstration programme.

Prometheus 1 is a software defined radio, connected to a 400 MHz UHF antenna that can be reprogrammed in orbit. It will be able to survey radio spectrum usage across the world from orbit, detect radar tracking of the Faraday-1 satellite, and identify and locate search and rescue beacons. Airbus is working with the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to foster greater partnerships between SMEs, government and Airbus on space.

Airbus Defence and Space in the UK created the self funded Prometheus programme to enable the rapid development of agile and innovative payloads using disruptive technology to offer significant capability to customers. Building on Airbus’ proven track record of working with SMEs to create novel capability and prove concepts, the Prometheus programme...