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Volansi and Roper Pledge to Use Roper’s Ideas on Commercial/Military Integration, Not His Access

Frank Wolfe

Friday, March 5th, 2021

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Volansi and Roper Pledge to Use Roper’s Ideas on Commercial/Military Integration, Not His Access

The Volansi M20 heavy-lift drone (Volansi Photo)

While the U.S. Air Force awarded Concord, Calif.-based drone maker, Volansi a contract last December to participate in the service’s prototype effort for the Skyborg low-cost attritable demonstrator–a project worth up to $400 million, company CEO Hannan Parvizian and former Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, a new member of Volansi's board, said that Roper's expertise will benefit the company in forming a strategy on which military missions to pursue and delivering approved military drone technologies to the civilian world,…

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