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5 December | Orlando, FL

USNDA 2024 

IGNITING THE U.S. INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR THE AUTONOMOUS ERA

Increasing Transparency and Cooperation between International, Government, Industry, and Academic partners to rapidly advance the American Small Drone, Drone Swarm, and Counter Drone Industrial Base

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

At this conference, our aim is to kick off a campaign to ignite the rapid growth of a nationwide ecosystem to accelerate drone and C-UAS-related technology far beyond current adoption. Our goal is to foster an ecosystem that incorporates not only drone and counter-drone builders, but the command and control, data, and machine learning technologies that surround them.  We envision an ecosystem of collaborative partnerships that accounts for and builds resilience against adversary malign actions at every step of development.   


Applying best practices from worldwide innovation, such as Ukraine Drone Hackathons,  conference participants will be expected to roll up their sleeves, collaborate and work.   Conference outcomes will be endorsed by government leaders, then measured to drive progress.

Keynote Speakers,
Panelists, & Participants

Collaborating Organizations

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Why Should I Attend? 

Government:

 

Your UAS and counter-UAS requirements are large, and your resources are limited. Come put the USNDA to work to speed up the cycle of experimentation and learning. Help us design the 2025 Drone Games and Drone Wars to mobilize industry and academia to compete against carefully designed measures of performance and measures of effectiveness addressing your most urgent needs.

 

Industry:

 

While you have many conferences and events to choose from, opportunity for real sleeves up collaboration with government, academic and other industry partners is limited. The USNDA is specifically designed to address your most urgent problems, from UAS/CUAS supply chain, to technical talent pools, to cross-industry collaboration, to informing and improving government acquisition strategies for drones and CUAS.

 

Academia:

 

Mobilize your researchers and students to collaborate in areas vital to both national security and local prosperity. Develop and inform opportunities for competition in the 2025 Drone Wars and Drone Games, while collaborating with industry on pathways for technology transition that can quickly help end-users in defense, public safety, and humanitarian response services.

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About the 
USNDA

The United States National Drone Association is a 501(c)3 organization formed to accelerate the rapid and responsible advancement of Small, Swarming, and Counter Drone technologies for national areas of interest, by increasing transparency and cooperation between industry, academia, government, and international partnerships.

 

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Annual DRONEWERX Events

In addition to the annual conference, the USNDA is also the Operational Sponsor of the annual National Drone Games ® and National Drone Wars ®  

2025 National

Drone Games ®

The National Drone Games ® is an open

micro competition for academic partners, designed to encourage Student Experimentation Teams, guided by faculty and technology advisors, to create open architecture prototypes that push the limits of drone and counter-drone technology. Winning student teams will be awarded cash prizes and scholarships 

2025 National

Drone Wars ®

The National Drone Wars ® is a closed, invitation-only event, designed to demonstrate and test the small UAS capabilities of National Security and Defense and encourage rapid adaptation and adoption of sUAS, cUAS, and small unit tactics, demonstrated through a live a Red vs. Blue team match in a replicated contested environment.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

The 2024 Key Themes

NATIONAL POLICY & REGULATION

DRONES AS FIRST RESPONDERS 

EDUCATION & EXPERIMENTATION 

INDUSTRIAL DISRUPTION 

VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT

PROTOTYPING AND ACQUISITION 

EMERGING CONCEPTS  

SWARMING: INTEGRATED AI & ML 

COMMERCIAL LOGISTICS 

CONSUMER & RECREATIONAL 

NATSEC & DoD sUAS

NATSEC & DoD COUNTER sUAS

The USNDA is currently accepting submissions and nominations for Chair, Deputy Chair and member roles in each of the 2024 subcommittees.
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