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UAS Manufacturing Cluster and Centre of Excellence

International Autonomous Systems, “IAS”, is the premiere UAS Manufacturing Cluster and Centre of Excellence. It develops, manufactures, integrates and exports Unmanned Aerial Systems, "UASs", to defence, civil and commercial organisations around the world.

IAS's four UAS Manufacturing Clusters and Centres of Excellence in Europe, MEA, Americas and APAC, once fully operational, are projected to gain significant market share of the small and medium size global UAS market sector within three to five years.

The UAS Manufacturing Cluster and Centre of Excellence is unique.

The UAS Manufacturing Cluster and Centre of Excellence is a volume manufacturer of Unmanned Aerial Systems and exporter.

All other UAS clusters and centres of excellence in place now or being planned are primarily capability, demonstrator and test sites.

Further, many of these are engaged only in developing technologies and subsystems to satisfy proposed government rules covering UAS flights in integrated air space, where unmanned aircraft are integrated into civil airspace.

The United States and various European countries understand that greater access and use of UASs in civil airspace is critical to the growth of this important knowledge based industry and its competitiveness worldwide.

The administrations and legislatures of these countries are actively developing rules to permit access. Many of the regulatory agencies of these countries are fixated on developing overly complex and excessively restrictive rules.

They also assume that new technologies and subsystems will be required and possibly made mandatory to ensure safe operation in integrated air space. To this end they are sponsoring sites where these systems may be developed and tested.

The defence agencies of these countries are focussed as well on development of these rules and technologies. These defence agencies have flown UASs primarily in theatres of war, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, where almost all airspace are under military control and as such designated as “segregated” airspace.

Military action in the near future will be primarily involve sharp short events against so called “rogue” regimes or non-state actors. Defence agencies are also engaged in civil actions such as border protection, drug interdiction and piracy prevention. Both of these missions almost always require UAS flights in integrated airspace.

However, by far, the greatest number of UASs are deployed outside the United States and Europe by national governments, commercial organisations and NGO’s within their respective country’s controlled airspace. These governments are satisfied with their use today and their rapid expansion their use across a number of civil and commercial sectors, without the strict formal regulations being developed and imposed by European and American government agencies.

In any case, most UASs are flown by civil, commercial and voluntary organisations at comparatively low altitudes in highly limited target areas, where integrated airspace regulations are not applicable or where flights may only have to comply with simple flight planning rules, practices or specific authorisations by government agencies, which do not require use of special technologies or subsystems.

There are now tens of applications where UASs are being used today, the following examples may be helpful in understanding their actual flying requirements: a few metres above a few hundred acre archaeological site; a hundred metres above twenty thousand acre farm; fifty metres above a small search and rescue designated area, a hundred metres above and along a pipe line; a hundred metres above a defined border or asset.

Only a volume UAS manufacturing cluster and centre of excellence will deliver the global competitiveness and market share in time to meet the current explosion of demand by civil and commercial organisations around the world.

Only a volume UAS manufacturing cluster and centre of excellence will deliver unrelenting innovation which creates competitive advantage and delivers market share and dominance in specific civil and commercial sectors.

Only a volume UAS manufacturing cluster and centre of excellence will deliver sovereignty, capability and cost efficiencies to the national defence agencies to meet the rapidly changing challenges of a largely asymmetric battle landscape now and those unknown threats and theatres in the future.

IAS's portfolio of UASs is unique.

The portfolio consists of a unique highly scalable family of advanced carbon composite, all weather, and blended flying-wing airframes which have a wingspan ranging from 1 to 12 metres, which utilizes the identical scalable design and are manufactured using a construction process known as Advanced Carbon Composite Monocoque, whereby the outer skin is the actual airframe. The portfolio has three patents or patents pending covering the airframe’s aerodynamic characteristics and manufacturing processes.

The airframe has no separate cylindrical fuselage, wings or tails. The airframe is strong, thick, but lightweight. The air foil shaped fuselage is integrated smoothly into the wings. This design called a “Blended Body” has many advantages over traditional cylindrical fuselage and tail designs. The major advantages include lower power consumption, ability to accommodate larger payload volumes and heavier payload weights, slower minimum stall speeds, minimal damage, and very low life cycle costs.

All payloads and propulsion systems are plug and play. Payloads include sensors, cameras, communications, autopilots, autonomous intelligent controls, targeting systems, command and control systems and armaments. Propulsion systems include electric, petrol and turbine engines.

Ground Command & Control Systems range from sophisticated full featured open software systems through to specialised hand held devices.

Take off and recovery systems are exceptionally varied and include hand-launch, catapult and wheel based automatic pilot launch, as well as belly landing, net catches, and wheel based landings.

Integrated systems are available with a standard package of payloads, engines, command and control, and take off and recovery subsystems, or customised to meet specific mission requirements.

This set of unique and exceptional features offers defence, civil and commercial users extraordinary mission flexibility, interoperability, future proofing and cost effectiveness.

IAS's UAS Manufacturing Cluster and Centre of Excellence contributes materially to the National Interest of each of the countries where it is located.

National interest programmes are driving momentous changes in domestic economies and are major determinants in the rebalancing of the global economy. The five most important objectives of these programmes are: (1) rebalancing of the economy from an overly dominant sector such as oil and gas or financial services to other sectors such as manufacturing (2) development of knowledge based industries which tightly couple manufacturing, R&D centres and universities to continually produced more advanced products (3) development of industries which can contribute to greater exports (4) movement of the nation from primarily a purchaser of strategic foreign products and maintainer of such, to a sovereign producer of these strategic products and (5) development of businesses which will encourage university graduates and highly skilled persons to take up high value positions in the country or on behalf of the country and attract those who have emigrated back to the country.

IAS's primary mission is to contribute materially to achieving a country's national interest programme including both its economic and security objectives. Our UAS Manufacturing Cluster & Centre of Excellence is an important vehicle, which nations can take advantage of, to meet their national interest programme's objectives and dramatically change their economies.

Further, these nations can use our disruptive technologies to make quantum improvements in the effectiveness of their defence, civil and commercial organisations.

IAS's UAS Manufacturing Cluster and Centre of Excellence is the developer, manufacturer and/or integrator of a very broad portfolio of advanced knowledge based technologies and thereby supports our host countries' objective of establishing leadership and sovereignty in their development, use and distribution.

Our UAS includes these, and other technologies: synthetic aperture radars, nuclear radiation and toxic material detectors; thermal, ground penetrating, see through obstacle, all weather, day/night sensors and cameras; satellite, radio and IP communications; autopilots, avionics and autonomous intelligent controls, target acquisition  systems, ground command and control systems; electric, petrol and turbine propulsion systems; advanced carbon fibre materials and manufacturing processes; and air foil designs.

IAS invites potential strategic partners and customers to participate in these UAS Manufacturing Clusters and Centres of Excellence and invites any interested persons or organisations to offer their creative ideas or interests to further the advancement and use of these systems and technologies around the world.

IAS offers governments, industrial and commercial companies, NGO's and universities a unique opportunity to share with us in the rapid development and deployment of systems and technologies which will drive knowledge based industries over the next two decades.

We invite your interest and participation.

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