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RapidEdge has been architected so that

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we can bring in not just Collins components

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but any third-party, any government components

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that is going to provide value to our customers.

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Collins released a call for proposals at the SXSW Conference

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asking for small businesses to bring technologies forward

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that can advance the unmanned air vehicle arena

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that helps with autonomy and technology deployment.

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Parasanti had one that we believe is very valuable in a fielded situation.

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Welcome, everyone.

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This is our RapidEdge Scenario Lima Demonstration.

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I am here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Today you are going to be seeing a demonstration

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which was a collaboration between Collins and Parasanti.

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Lasso is a piece of software that acts as a control plane –

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meaning it coordinates information flow

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between different systems or different sensors or different people,

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different devices, so that they can better interoperate, communicate,

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make decisions, and execute commands for the mission.

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Parasanti is bringing the capability to while in flight

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deploy that new software, that new capability to the team.

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It helps with our very low-size, low-power systems that are on these vehicles

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to be able to execute any mission

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and have the flexibility to do that actually in the field.

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This is the proof of the pudding right here.

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The Lasso application did what it needed to do.

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It helped the team dynamically get a new behavior,

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and ultimately that let them complete the mission.

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The collaboration with Parasanti has really been quite good.

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We've had open, quick conversations with them.

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From beginning of engineering work until this demonstration

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was about three months.

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It's been outstanding.

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Definitely working with the RapidEdge team has been

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just very simple, very easy, very straightforward.

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It wasn't different companies, wasn't competitors, wasn't competition.

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It was to solve a problem and I think that,

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and the level of communication we had, made it successful.

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We probably never would have had access to a RapidEdge team

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without some sort of mechanism to get introduced.

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And I think that's what the Powered By Collins initiative does.