U.S. Army employed Silicon Valley based company for make drone-scouts which can be placed in backpack

At the end of April, 2019 the U.S. Army announced cooperation with the company from Silicon dolinydefense Innovation Unit for development of the compact unmanned aerial vehicles intended for the prospecting purposes.

The program of investigation of a small range will work with business companies over creation of prototypes of small drones which find room in a backpack and can provide soldiers of "the investigation which is quickly unrolled by a system". Drones are rather cheap, portable and allow to assess quickly a situation on a certain area – ideal candidates for army equipment. Besides opponents of U.S. Army use commercial UAVs for the purposes long ago.

The U.S. Army employed the company from Silicon Valley for creation of the drones intelligence agents which are finding room in a backpack

The army management welcomes cooperation of military with the industrial companies: the look is from outside necessary, it not only allows to develop and deliver to army the latest technologies, but also reveals the existing spaces in equipment and helps to eliminate them. The foundation was laid for the new program in November, 2018 at the request of the army management, and since then the innovation group signed six new agreements with different partners. Most the selected companies will work for the first time with the Ministry of Defence.

These companies received a task to develop the corresponding UAVs with the most flexible interface. According to the press release, the purpose of such strategy of actions consists in quickly to promote in a phase of creation of a prototype when the companies overcome key milestones of development of the new equipment, and then to transfer the best technologies in production. Thus development and release of new equipment will take only several months, but not years.

It should be noted that the innovation group of U.S. Army is engaged not only drones – its interests include artificial intelligence, self-contained units, information technologies and space.^[1]

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