Volansi receives Small Business Innovation Research contact from US Air Force

VTOL UAV devel­op­er Volan­si has been award­ed a Phase II Small Busi­ness Inno­va­tion Research con­tract by the US Air Force, allow­ing the com­pa­ny to demon­strate its long-dis­tance, heavy-pay­load VOLY M20 drone.

The con­tract is through the Depart­ment of the Air Force Small Busi­ness Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer (SBIR/STTR) Cen­ter of Excel­lence inno­va­tion pro­gramme, and Volan­si’s tech­nol­o­gy will enable the con­tin­u­ous and rapid resup­ply of for­ward troops, expand­ing sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness with ISR, or extend­ing comms through data relay.

“We are delight­ed for this SBIR Phase II award and look for­ward to part­ner­ing with the Unit­ed States Air Force Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand on this project,” said Han­nan Parviz­ian, CEO and Co-Founder of Volan­si.

“Our goal is to devel­op tech­nol­o­gy that unbur­dens, equips, and increas­es the warfighter’s capa­bil­i­ty to suc­cess­ful­ly com­pete and win in any sit­u­a­tion. We are proud to con­tin­ue to con­tribute to the work that our broth­ers and sis­ters are doing with­in the Unit­ed States Mil­i­tary.”

The VOLY M20 offers the abil­i­ty to simul­ta­ne­ous­ly car­ry 20 pounds of car­go and a 10 pound sen­sor pay­load. A hybrid flight sys­tem that com­bines eVTOL with fixed wing for­ward flight, allows the VOLY M20 to com­plete com­plex mis­sions with min­i­mal to zero infra­struc­ture- pro­vid­ing flex­i­bil­i­ty and true run­way inde­pen­dence. 

Volansi’s tech­nol­o­gy increas­es the capa­bil­i­ties of troops and has many use cas­es like enabling the con­tin­u­ous and rapid resup­ply of for­ward troops, expand­ing sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness with ISR (Intel­li­gence, Ser­vice or Recon­nais­sance), or extend­ing comms through data relay.

In a pri­or SBIR Phase I award, Volansi’s group 3 VTOL unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle, the VOLY C20, was suc­cess­ful­ly eval­u­at­ed as an effec­tive tool to enable resup­ply of the warfight­er of tomor­row.

Volansi’s UAVs are already in use for com­mer­cial car­go deliv­ery projects around the world, and will begin com­mer­cial drone deliv­ery projects launch­ing in the Unit­ed States this sum­mer.