Volocopter and Grab to study the feasibility of deploying air taxi services in Southeast Asia https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/18/volocopter-and-grab-to-study-the-feasibility-of-deploying-air-taxi-services-in-southeast-asia/
Author: jeroen
Innovating in Defence organisations
My article in Belgian Military Revue was pusblished recently.
You can read it here.
Future Engineers?
Innovating alternative for cargo delivery
Drones for organ transport
Tesla develops the hardware for self driving
Important takeaways:
– Tesla considers LIDAR as a bad technology for self driving
– Tesla cars and the required neural networks for self driving are becoming very good because they collect a lot of data and can retrain the networks for all kind of exceptions. This is for Defence a enormous problem because we operate in a non structured world where very little structural data acquisition is being done… so even with the best hardware, we probably won’t be able to have self driving vehicles that can operate cross country and in the unusual conditions we find in operations.
Using HoloLens xR to improve soldier performance
Small inflatable UAS
RAS as mobile protection platform in MOUT
Jetpacks for boarding Ops?
Motion sickness resolved with small box on head?
Could use one of these for myself as I get motion sickness from VR
Future firefighters for dangerous missions
Large scale UGV testing in UK MOD

The UGV domain is taking off… We need to keep up!
Interesting development for energy storage

innovative fuel for heat capture and storage
US Airforce Software Experimentation Lab to drive innovation
Software drives the future battlefield and an adaptive organisation needs to be able to quickly modify or create new software to addres this. This demands agile development and a client oriented approach.
Love this concept, combining this with flexible insourcing of talent could be a (better?) alternative than the system currently used by us.