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Geospatial World 01/22/2021 2 Minutes Read Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) and the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) announced 8 partners for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s BEYOND program. These companies which are major players in the drone industry, will work in North Dakota to execute the goals of the program. It is also a part of the next phase of the UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP). BEYOND has â€œa particular focus on operations beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of the operator that are repeat...

Drone Delivery Firm Flytrex Welcomes Thein as COO December 16, 2020 Source: Flytrex A new COO is flying into the friendly corporate skies of drone delivery company Flytrex. Last week, the Israeli company announced the hiring of Ben Thein as Chief Operating Officer. Thein will lead global operations and focus on building American partnerships to expand drone delivery in the e-commerce and food sectors. With 15 years of managerial, operational and technical experience, Thein most recently worked as the VP of Operations at Mindspace. He also worked at SodaStream as head of global business devel...

Iris Automation Closes $13 Million in Series B Venture Capital Financing Computer vision-based technology innovator to advance unmanned air safety through expanded use cases and market channels News provided by Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --  Iris Automation has closed a successful round of $13 million in Series B venture capital funding. Founded in 2015, Iris Automation is a computer vision technology company pioneering the development of advanced detection systems used to help provide Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) capabilities that enable safe commercial drone ope...

Three years after launching his drone startup, Flytrex, Yariv Bash made a pivot. What started in 2013 as a supplier for drone manufacturers and hobbyists became a delivery service provider. “We realized that the killer application for drones was going to be backyard delivery,” Bash says. Soon after, the Israel-based company became one of the first commercial drone operators, delivering groceries and other goods in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo/Flytrex Since then it’s added small-scale test routes in North Dakota and North Carolina. In September, Walmart Inc. announced it would begin using F...