WEBVTT 00:05.740 --> 00:09.540 mhm . Yeah . 00:12.240 --> 00:15.960 T . M . D . X . Is the texas 00:15.960 --> 00:18.016 Military Department Joint Innovation 00:18.016 --> 00:19.904 Unit Operations folks were having 00:19.904 --> 00:21.970 difficulty in search and rescue and 00:21.970 --> 00:24.026 same thing with our first responders 00:24.026 --> 00:26.081 during the last Hurricane Laura . We 00:26.081 --> 00:28.414 have brought in hundreds of small U . S . 00:28.414 --> 00:30.637 Teams and to be able to bring them into 00:30.637 --> 00:32.637 one ecosystem where we can actually 00:32.637 --> 00:34.859 task them , capture all of that data in 00:34.859 --> 00:36.692 one repository and be able to do 00:36.692 --> 00:38.803 artificial intelligence or many other 00:38.803 --> 00:40.859 services to help us more quickly and 00:40.859 --> 00:42.748 efficiently find people that need 00:42.748 --> 00:44.637 rescue that are on rooftops or in 00:44.637 --> 00:46.581 vehicles or roads that are blocked 00:46.581 --> 00:46.180 because of downed power lines or high 00:46.180 --> 00:48.690 water . So these systems are game 00:48.690 --> 00:50.801 changers to how we do business in the 00:50.801 --> 00:53.440 future . Blue Small us started with a 00:53.450 --> 00:55.506 need from the army and sprung out of 00:55.506 --> 00:57.672 their initial investments in the short 00:57.672 --> 00:59.617 range reconnaissance program . Our 00:59.617 --> 00:59.270 soldiers , sailors and marines were 00:59.270 --> 01:01.780 looking for a small portable , what we 01:01.780 --> 01:03.836 call rucksack , portable small drone 01:03.836 --> 01:05.724 capability that they were able to 01:05.724 --> 01:07.891 quickly deploy in situations of danger 01:07.891 --> 01:10.058 or for increased situational awareness 01:10.058 --> 01:11.891 For a long time here , the texas 01:11.891 --> 01:13.836 Military department , We have been 01:13.836 --> 01:16.058 looking for a way to get real time data 01:16.058 --> 01:15.970 back to leaders that can make decisions 01:16.160 --> 01:18.216 not just here but also to be able to 01:18.216 --> 01:20.438 get it out to the field as well so they 01:20.438 --> 01:22.493 can make decisions in real time . We 01:22.493 --> 01:24.660 are fighting lag times sometimes up to 01:24.660 --> 01:24.500 eight hours of when decisions or when 01:24.500 --> 01:26.333 things were happening . When our 01:26.333 --> 01:28.389 decision makers were actually seeing 01:28.389 --> 01:30.444 that information come back to them . 01:30.444 --> 01:29.820 When we realized that there was an 01:29.820 --> 01:31.890 opportunity with some new abilities 01:31.890 --> 01:33.723 being opened up from D . O . D . 01:33.723 --> 01:35.779 Approving these types of resources . 01:35.779 --> 01:38.001 Then we thought it would be fantastic . 01:38.001 --> 01:40.001 And I saw this as a chance to bring 01:40.001 --> 01:39.630 this in and really give our decision 01:39.630 --> 01:41.630 makers the information they need as 01:41.630 --> 01:43.797 quickly as we possibly can so they can 01:43.797 --> 01:46.019 make those decisions . We've had to use 01:46.019 --> 01:48.241 foreign foreign drones and we have been 01:48.241 --> 01:50.520 waiting for what's happening today , 01:50.530 --> 01:52.960 which is this blue line of unmanned 01:52.960 --> 01:55.010 aircraft systems being revealed and 01:55.020 --> 01:58.160 shown to to our communities . Uh Those 01:58.170 --> 02:01.270 of us on the municipal side have to use 02:01.270 --> 02:03.740 what's available to us financially and 02:03.740 --> 02:05.930 what what works . So that's off the 02:05.930 --> 02:07.930 shelf . Products have been the only 02:07.930 --> 02:10.097 thing that we've had a chance of using 02:10.097 --> 02:12.097 today . So there's these prices are 02:12.097 --> 02:14.319 coming down . The technology is getting 02:14.319 --> 02:16.810 faster and faster and that's what we're 02:16.810 --> 02:19.600 moving towards is being able to tie 02:19.600 --> 02:22.980 into the blue line and use it for not 02:22.980 --> 02:25.330 only our folks in the green but us in 02:25.340 --> 02:27.451 in the blue and red as well . D . I . 02:27.451 --> 02:29.980 You coupled with the Army and multiple 02:29.980 --> 02:32.260 services including the Air Force , the 02:32.260 --> 02:34.371 Department of the Navy and the Marine 02:34.371 --> 02:35.927 Corps went through a robust 02:35.927 --> 02:38.093 cybersecurity testing process by which 02:38.093 --> 02:37.960 we actually went through a physical 02:37.960 --> 02:39.960 tear down of each of the systems to 02:39.960 --> 02:42.550 confirm their Section 8 48 N . B . A . 02:42.740 --> 02:44.870 Compliant . It's an answer to a 02:44.880 --> 02:47.102 question and being able to have all the 02:47.102 --> 02:49.269 answers here and actually get hands on 02:49.269 --> 02:52.400 demo read . The specs talked to the 02:52.410 --> 02:54.360 producers of these is invaluable 02:54.360 --> 02:56.471 because then they're going to get our 02:56.471 --> 02:58.360 feedback instead of through forms 02:58.360 --> 03:00.582 emails . We're going to be able to tell 03:00.582 --> 03:02.582 it literally to the horse's mouth . 03:02.582 --> 03:04.860 Were very interested in the small US , 03:05.140 --> 03:07.300 particularly the thermal and fleer 03:07.310 --> 03:10.540 capability for search and rescue . Um 03:10.540 --> 03:12.707 And it's just it's great networking as 03:12.707 --> 03:14.873 well . Being able to come out here and 03:14.873 --> 03:16.818 talk to some of the other folks in 03:16.818 --> 03:18.929 different programs were incorporating 03:18.929 --> 03:20.540 US technology into wild land 03:20.540 --> 03:22.707 firefighting . It's rapidly developing 03:22.707 --> 03:24.818 its chance to replace manned aviation 03:24.818 --> 03:26.873 in a lot of aspects so we can use it 03:26.873 --> 03:29.096 for cost containment , so minimize cost 03:29.140 --> 03:31.418 and then do things more safely as well . 03:31.418 --> 03:33.140 So where we may have to put an 03:33.140 --> 03:35.307 individual at risk in a man platform , 03:35.307 --> 03:37.362 we can put that platform unmanned in 03:37.362 --> 03:39.251 the austere environment . Several 03:39.251 --> 03:40.862 organizations that are being 03:40.862 --> 03:42.807 represented here through federal , 03:42.807 --> 03:45.720 state and our local , local communities 03:45.720 --> 03:47.942 and these are the people I work with on 03:47.942 --> 03:50.240 the out on the field . These are our 03:50.240 --> 03:52.407 neighbors . There are federal partners 03:52.407 --> 03:54.860 are state state partners , our county , 03:55.040 --> 03:58.230 um , team members and knowing that 03:58.230 --> 04:01.030 they're going to be able to use a 04:01.040 --> 04:03.096 emerging technology to do their jobs 04:03.096 --> 04:05.250 and that we're using the same tech is 04:05.260 --> 04:07.540 really exciting for us for as many of 04:07.540 --> 04:09.860 those emissions . It's going to save us 04:09.860 --> 04:11.640 money , which in turn saves the 04:11.650 --> 04:13.594 taxpayers money being able to have 04:13.594 --> 04:15.761 something that will work for fisheries 04:15.761 --> 04:18.010 surveillance or search and rescue all 04:18.010 --> 04:20.340 in one package invaluable . And so how 04:20.340 --> 04:22.284 do we do this more effectively and 04:22.284 --> 04:24.507 efficiently ? Especially for the search 04:24.507 --> 04:26.673 in the search and rescue at a cost and 04:26.673 --> 04:28.673 a scale that is just had never been 04:28.673 --> 04:30.729 done before . And so bringing in our 04:30.729 --> 04:32.896 first responders , government academia 04:32.896 --> 04:34.784 and military partners here in the 04:34.784 --> 04:36.784 National Guard to try to be able to 04:36.784 --> 04:38.618 leverage the latest and greatest 04:38.618 --> 04:40.618 technology specifically of US based 04:40.618 --> 04:42.784 companies is to be able to take a look 04:42.784 --> 04:44.840 at all of the different systems that 04:44.840 --> 04:46.896 are now approved by the secretary of 04:46.896 --> 04:46.800 defense , where we don't need a waiver 04:46.870 --> 04:48.981 that we can actually use this in real 04:48.981 --> 04:50.981 world missions to help save lives . 05:09.840 --> 05:10.160 Mm 05:24.740 --> 05:24.940 Yeah .