New UAS Technologies Under Development for Danish Defense

Insitu and MDSI will collaborate to offer Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) products and services that are optimized for the complex environment where Danish, Nordic Defense Cooperation and other EU forces must be prepared to operate By DA Staff / 09 Sep 2021

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Insitu has formed a strategic alliance with MDSI to collaborate on new Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) technologies for Danish Defense and potentially other customers across the Nordic Defense Cooperation (NORDEFCO) and the European Union (EU). 

The partnership will leverage Insitu’s combat-proven family of tactical UAS with MDSI’s European infrastructure and advanced Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AIML) capabilities to offer products and services that are optimized for the complex environment where Danish, NORDEFCO and other EU forces must be prepared to operate.

“We are excited to work with an agile and innovative teammate like MDSI, who can not only enhance the capabilities we might offer to the Danish Defence, but to other Nordic and European customers over the next several years as well,” said Dave Funkhouser, Insitu’s Global Growth Executive for Northern Europe.

Collaboration between the two companies will also enhance Denmark’s national competencies related to autonomous systems and could facilitate a range of industrial cooperation opportunities in the future.

After five years collaborating on special projects with Boeing Phantom Works, we are pleased to grow our relationship with another exciting member of the Boeing family who has led the tactical UAS industry for the past two decades,” said MDSI Chief Operations Officer Christian Steinø.   

“Our relationship with Insitu will position MDSI to migrate some of the advanced capabilities we originally developed for manned aviation into the unmanned aviation sector.”

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