Recommendable! The natives of Oklahoma are getting into the latest technology.
"... the Sooner State offers roboticists wide-open areas to safely launch and test their inventions. Some of the leading organizations and companies embracing these resources are Skydweller Aero, NASA, Boeing, Baker Hughes, and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions. ... Oklahoma also has a long history in the aviation industry. ...
Oklahoma is home to 39 Native American tribes, accounting for almost half of its physical area. ... Choctaw Nation’s Advanced Technology Initiatives. The Choctaw is one of the largest indigenous people in the U.S. with a reservation encompassing 11,000 square miles. ...
Last year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected the Choctaw Nation as one of 10 national test sites for the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP). For decades, the Choctaw has been successfully operating casinos and other commercial initiatives to drive revenues for quality of life improvements on the reservation. ...
As a self-contained entity with its own infrastructure, retail network, and governance, the Choctaw offers innovators a living laboratory to conduct autonomous drone deliveries. For example, last month Bell Aircraft received Beyond Visual Line of Site (BVLOS) approval for its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) delivery missions to typically inaccessible areas of the Choctaw Nation. As the APT is a vertical take-Off and landing (VTOL) craft, it is also the basis for future urban transportation alternatives, such as flying cars and air-taxis.
... Choctaw Nation to conduct trials for power-line inspections, emergency management, agriculture, live stock monitoring, and weather analytics. ..."
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