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Commercial UAS: Access, Ecosystem and Market Opportunity

For AUVSI’s Xponential

Dallas, TX. May 11th, 2017

Ron Stearns, Director, Business Development, Robotics and Unmanned Systems

Transitions, Time Compression, Part 107

May, 2014: FAA accepts petitions for commercial UAS exemption under Section 333 of FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 First six Section 333 exemptions are issued

• n Sept. 25, 2014 to six

television and film companies. 5,309 Section 333s approved as of June 8,2016). Blanket exemptions for test sites and 333 in increasing effect. AGL from 400-800 feet Moves toward Risk- based certification. Night operations under Section 333. Expedited, online commercial

• registration. Part 107

released June 21, 2016

From inertia to normalized access in two years

From thousands of commercial UAVs to potentially millions – how can systems scale to accommodate?

• Regulatory
• Production
• Equipage
• Information flow
• Command and control
• Operator certifications
• Commercial service providers
• Human-machine interface
• Airworthiness

Risk Classes and Commercial Best Fit

• VTOL UAV capabilities in the 40-

60 lb. range are surpassed every 18-24 months.

• Service providers are purchasing

UAVs in twos to avoid fleet

• bsolescence
• VTOL UAVs > 40 lbs. will

become a commoditized design space

• Barriers to entry for RC 1-2

rotary-wing platforms are few, but the ability to scale production and spiral in capabilities is unproven

• To do so will require a warm line,

thorough IP sharing, real-time field feedback

Risk Class Aircraft Weight Example Aircraft NAS Access RC -6 15,000 lbs. and up 2020+ RC-5 5,000-15,000 lbs. 2020+ RC-4 1,500-5,000 lbs. 2020+ RC-3 55-1,500 lbs. 2019-2020 Exemptions RC-2 6-55 lbs. Part 107 RC-1 1-6 lbs. Part 107

Part 107: Early Takeaways

BVLOS will usher in viable commercial Group 3 UAS

“Progress in science is not linear, but rather exhibits periods of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions.”

• Thomas Kuhn

(paraphrased from “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, 1962).

Gold Rush, but who are the early winners? Imagery, data and business analytics driving CONOPS and revenues Commercial UAV size, weight and reliability must evolve Small businesses, Hyper localized > $1mm in revenues Greater: altitude, controller radius,

• perations over

people Increasing: mapping use, data reselling, applicability Section 333 and Part 107 are building the safety case

Drone Advisory Committee: Paths Forward

“This Federal Advisory committee was formed to provide an open venue for the FAA and key decision-makers supporting the safe introduction of UAS into the NAS. Members on the Committee work in partnership with the FAA to identify and propose actions to the FAA on how best to facilitate the resolution of issues affecting the efficiency and safety of integrating UAS into the NAS.” Developments of note from the DAC’s Jan. 31, 2017 meeting in Reno, NV

700,000 Registrants in year one of the FAA’s Online Drone Registry 42,000 FAA Drone Registrants registered as commercial users 35,000 Applicants for the Part 107 Pilot Knowledge Exam 17,000 Have passed the Part 107 Pilot Knowledge Exam 29,000 Number of remote pilots in U.S. with 6,000

DAC commercially-important activity:

• Operations over people not commercially

involved and BLOS ops. (e.g. Pathfinder)

• Changes to the waiver process in work, to

enable access beyond Part 107

• Subcommittees working to establish minimum

aircraft equipage, moving away from consumer derivatives to commercial-grade UAS

• Needs for aggregated commercial safety data

exist to build the commercial UAS safety case

• Subcommittees want to look beyond smalls,

and scale these corollaries to larger UAVs in process

Commercial UAS Ecosystem Snapshot

Analyzed 647 organizations with active pursuit/participation in UAS markets and assigned to categories based upon stated core competency Data Processing: video, imagery and analysis RF/Comms: wireless, nav., detection, antennas, satcomms EO/IR: manufacture of all modalities Services: insurance, training, measurement, legal, field support, engineering, test, consultants Embedded Products: GPS, PCB, computers, data storage Electronics: MEMS, cabling, circuits, solar, avionics, IMU, switches, converters, connectors, motion control Components: bearings, power, batteries, fasteners, servos, hydraulics, tooling, chutes, cases, ground support

Present Conditions and The Way Ahead

Investment and Events Consumer to Commercial Product/Market Maturity Market Focus 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 10s of Millions $: 3DR, Parrot, GoPro, Yuneec Kespry, Measure, Precision Hawk Drone as a Service (DaaS) Drone Life: 50 Hours 100 Hours 300 Hours 1000 Hours + Hardware Software (Daas)Service Very Small Companies Limited Industrial Use Proof of Commercial Concepts Section 333 Part 107 Part 107 Waivers

Evolving Participants, Business Models

• Measure – Drone as a Service – new funding wave from VC and Private Equity
• Trumbull Unmanned – Oil & Gas, Drone-Enabled services provider
• Price Waterhouse Coopers – advisor to industrial users, conduit to drone use
• AeroVironment – Commercial Agriculture Service with internally-developed drone
• Trimble Geospatial – Took UX-5 UAV in house, Service for Precision Ag.
• Intel – Processing power, autonomous operations
• Altavian – Deployed services teams, mapping intensive
• Qualcomm - Cellular connectivity to enable autonomy
• AECOM – Industrial advisors and project management
• Airbus Ventures – Vahana, an autonomous personal-transportation vehicle
• Project Wing – Autonomous delivery via drone
• Amazon Prime Air – Delivery, consumer goods
• Uber – Aggressive build, test and flight plans for a VTOL Uber model

Evolving Models Truly Disruptive

Market Gap – Commercial Opportunity

Canon DSLR = 3-4

• lbs. $2000 for body,

lens, gantry assembly Humidity, salinity, particulates are no- fly deal breakers Current small camera mounting, approx. $1300

Weight wreaks havoc on small UAS capabilities. >10 grams can equal tens of minutes of flight time on a Risk Class 2 fixed-wing UAV Performance penalties are worse for VTOL UAVs. With maximum endurance of roughly 30 minutes Desired Commercial EO/IR Sensor Properties: 1. ITAR Free – commercially-available, worldwide 2. Stabilized 3. Environmentally robust: day-night and weather-tolerant 4. Independently powered 5. Less than 1.5 lbs. for entire system 6. Much lower power draw 7. Store onboard or stream imagery 8. Modular, hot-swappable payload(s) 9. > 5-inch diameter gimbal

Imagery and Data Capture, Process & Delivery:

Developing Drone Layer

Electrical Government Oil & Gas Agriculture Forestry VAR VAR VAR VAR Woolpert, OH Sewall, ME Merrick, CO Terra RS, WA Aerial Imagery Aerial Imagery Aerial Imagery Aerial Imagery Drone Imagery Drone Imagery Drone Imagery Drone Imagery Wholly-owned fleets, light twins, single heavies, exquisite sensors Will providers choose to own or lease drone fleets as projects dictate? Ownership introduces elements of variable costs and unpredictability Specialized value-added resellers incorporate and layer metadata over imagery Established imagery and information users comprise a roughly $4 billion annual U.S. data market

9x9” imager in C182 Aeryon’s Sky Ranger

Commercial Drones can flatten this information flow, with lower investment and technical barriers to aircraft ownership and data capture, but not processing and delivery. Mapping and surveying will remain specialized skill sets.

Major Electrical Transmission Infrastructure

Corridors stretch for up to 800 miles. There are programmed collections for vegetation encroachment, subsidence and clearances. In some cases these datasets must be collected twice annually. There are emergency needs during brownouts or weather-related damage to the distribution infrastructure. An ISO can lose millions in days if it cannot locate and

• repair. The added costs come from having to

purchase power from outside networks. Even with a crewed Helicopter and an

• bserver dedicated and on call 24/7 there’s

no guarantee they’ll be able to fly. A UAV could do the dangerous work in remote areas to isolate unexpected outages, damage and/or hot spots.

Oil and Gas: Transmission Infrastructure Density

Map of major natural gas and oil pipelines in the U.S. Hazardous liquid lines are in red, gas transmission lines in blue Concentration in Texas, Oklahoma and Gulf states will help to define UAS CONOPS as well as industry and political partnerships This represents a sophisticated, moneyed end-user set. UAS Requirements are understood and waiting for expanded BLoS airspace access

Source: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Critical Electricity-Generation Infrastructure, United States (2017)

50 500 2000 5000

MW

Source: Washington Post

Type Number of Plants % National Output Natural Gas 1,793 34 Coal 400 30 Nuclear 61 20 Hydroelectric 1,444 7 Wind 999 6 Solar 1,721 1 Oil 1,076 1 U.S. Electricity Generation By Type, 2017

Opportunity for commercial UAV/UGV- enabled site surveillance and survey, with emphasis on Natural Gas, Coal and Nuclear plants which together generate 84% of U.S. output. Counter UAS will also be a part of this mission set.

Commercial UAS Value Proposition

Fixed fleet operating costs, data driven maintenance and upgrades Improving existing designs for performance, SWaP, and human factors Take new concepts from design to manufacture under one roof Keep fleet updated with latest technology Let you focus on selling your service or platform

The Velocity Group is at the leading edge of onshore product development and rapid time-to-market. We are assembling a world-class portfolio of design and manufacturing organizations that put customer focus at the heart of everything we do. Our mission: We help our clients accelerate time from idea to profit by providing single-source accountability for and management of the entire range of resources needed to bring concepts to profitable, market-ready products, to scale up for manufacturing and to produce and sustain them efficiently and cost-effectively.

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