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My name is Sergeant Volpe , and I

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created the first 3D printed NDA

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compliant drone for the Marine Corps .

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Hanks , also known as high agility

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nodal quadcopter , is the first 3D

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printed drone that we've started to

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distribute in the Marine Corps . It's

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NDA compliant and we've built it here

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in the innovation Campus . What we

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first saw a need for was more Group One

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small UAS in the Marine Corps , and

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something that could be quickly

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produced by Marines was not available

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at the time and that's what we've done

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with this is created something that the

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Marines can build , customize , change ,

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apply to whatever mission they're doing .

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In the past year , over 1000 hours have

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been spent from designing , test flying ,

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breaking things , redesigning them so

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they break less , and repeating that

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process over and over . All the

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components we're using on Hank's are

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commercial off the shelf components .

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So finding those parts is just emailing

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suppliers , asking for quotes and

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finding what they make that is NDA

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compliant and piecemealing it together

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until we have something that's built

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with compliance .

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The plan for Hanks and the future of it

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is to use it as a way to teach Marines

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for building FPV drones and performing

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training with that , whether they're

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shooting them down , looking at

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frequencies , or just for the purpose

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of building them . With that , we're

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going to be releasing the files on DMDV

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so any unit can take a look , download

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them , have the instructions , and

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we'll also be teaching classes here to

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create them . Hanks is not the

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answer for drones or modularity .

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This should be something that marines

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in all places are thinking about how

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they can change , how they can design

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their own , how they can improve upon .

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Any given platform , be that drones or

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Whatever they have , they should be

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thinking about ways that they can do it

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better .