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A group of 20-somethings built a GPS-independent drone in 24 hours—and caught the eye of US special operations forces

Here’s what that says about the new class of defense industry disruptors.

Defense One

Here’s what that says about the new class of defense industry disruptors.

In February, 24-year-old Ian Laffey decided to take a break from the project he was working on—an AI tool for email—and attend a hackathon in San Francisco. While there, he met a handful of Ukrainians fresh from the front lines, looking for new tech they could bring to the cause.

Ukraine has gotten around shortages in artillery by relying on cheap drones. But those drones require GPS guidance, which can be jammed.

So over the course of a couple days, with very little sleep, Ian and his two partners figured out a new system to allow drones to locate where they were, without having to rely on a signal beamed down from a constellation of satellites. The trick: have the drone’s cameras take pictures and compare those to a database of Google image maps, using simple machine learning. Within 24 hours, the team had cobbled together a GPS-independent drone for less than $500 dollars.

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A group of 20-somethings built a GPS-independent drone in 24 hours—and caught the eye of US special operations forces

Here’s what that says about the new class of defense industry disruptors.

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