Everyone seems quite taken with DreamHammer’s attire this week at AUVSI in Washington, D.C.
DreamHammer announced this week at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems 2013 conference in Washington, D.C., that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Ocean Aero, developer of a new class of commercially available autonomous maritime unmanned vessels.
Under the agreement, DreamHammer will extend the functionality of its drone operating system software, Ballista, to control Ocean Aero’s “Submaran,” a new class of Unmanned Underwater, Surface Vessel (UUSV). For the first time ever, a maritime system will be controlled through software so powerful it can control any unmanned vehicle in any domain.
‘We’re just the operating system’
A National Journal article out of the AUVSI show titled “Can Drones Be Known for More Than Causing Death?” calls attention to the many non-military uses of drones, from search, rescue and recovery operations to pizza delivery. The reporter, Ben Terris, asked DreamHammer’s CEO Nelson Paez “if he ever loses sleep at night when he hears of drone strikes.”
“We’re just the operating system, we have no control of that,” Paez says in the article. “Think about it like Windows. You can use that to look at a porn site or a national security site. It’s not up to Windows how it’s used.”
More of the interview with Paez is available in this video titled “Not All Drones Are So Darn Scary.”
DreamHammer’s Chief operating Officer Denis Clements says in a Huffington Post article that he’s seeing the drone industry transition “from all-military on a relatively small scale to international and commercial on a large scale.” In short: It’s getting much, much bigger.
Tight black pants and ‘The Matrix’
Everyone seems quite taken with DreamHammer’s attire at AUVSI, with the Huffington Post describing the staff as looking “like they are out of ‘The Matrix’ in all-black and silver getups.” Meanwhile, the National Journal says Paez “fits the dress code perfectly. He towers over everyone else, his hair gelled, his goatee groomed, and his black pants tight.”
See for yourself in this article from Flightglobal’s Unmanned Daily News which talks about how DreamHammer has integrated the UAS Control Segment (UCS) interoperability standard into its software which allows operators to control several vehicle types at once.
