How Sift's Unified Observability Platform Accelerates Drone Innovation

How Sift's Unified Observability Platform Accelerates Drone Innovation

In December, the Defense Department issued a request forinformation to gauge the defense industry's ability to develop more than 300,000 drones "quickly and inexpensively" by 2027.

Over the next year, the Department plans on spending up to$1 billion to fulfill their need to acquire a large number of the "very best of low-cost American-made drones," according to a December 2025 press release.

On this episode of the Aerospace & Defense TechnologyPodcast, we learn about a new tool that could help manufacturers optimize the way they design and create new drones. Austin Spiegel, CTO of Sift, is the guest on this episode to explain how their "unified observability platform" to explain how drone manufacturers can leverage their platformto optimize their design, validation, manufacturing and overall engineering processes from prototype to operations.

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The Future of Digital Twins and Virtual Prototyping in Aerospace

The Future of Digital Twins and Virtual Prototyping in Aerospace

The aerospace and defense industry has adopted the use of the digital twin as a revolutionary design tool for several decades. Digital twins effectively provide a virtual representation of a product, ...

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How the Air Force is Using AI to Fix Supply Chain Challenges

How the Air Force is Using AI to Fix Supply Chain Challenges

Art Sellers, SparkCognition Government Systems President and General Manager joins the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast to explain their new partnership using AI to improve supply chain efficien...

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A Supercomputer for Aerospace and Defense Systems Modeling and Simulation

A Supercomputer for Aerospace and Defense Systems Modeling and Simulation

In February, Cadence launched a new generation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with the introduction of the Millennium M1 CFDSupercomputer. Millennium M1 is a graphics processor unit (GPU)-base...

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Digital Transformation Updates at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon

Digital Transformation Updates at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon

The U.S. Army recently provided the following definition for "digital engineering," in the article "A Matter of Course," that explains how the Army is developing a new digital engineering course. Here...

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What is Generative AI at the Edge?

What is Generative AI at the Edge?

This is the first episode of the fourth season of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast, where the topical focus is the impact of digital engineering and how the use of new digital tools are re-d...

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Why the Hybrid Approach Extends the Range of Electric Aircraft

Why the Hybrid Approach Extends the Range of Electric Aircraft

Established in 2018 by four ex-Airbus engineers who led the development of an all-electric plane but believed that batteries alone would not be enough to decarbonize aviation, Ascendance is one of Fra...

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How Helios Horizon is Taking Electric Aircraft to New Altitudes

How Helios Horizon is Taking Electric Aircraft to New Altitudes

Helios Horizon, an initiative to develop a stratospheric electric airplane, recently concluded its latest flight test campaign having surpassed the altitude record for multi-seat electric aircraft. O...

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3 eVTOL Companies to Watch in 2024: Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation and Lilium

3 eVTOL Companies to Watch in 2024: Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation and Lilium

Archer Aviation, Lilium and Joby are three of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft manufacturers that have been making major progress in this growing new are of aviation over the las...

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