Drone DB A Facebook feed for drone operations
Drone. DB A Facebook feed for drone operations Military & intelligence agencies spend thousands of hours following nefarious individuals by drone. Current manual methods for tracking the activities of these individuals are slow, manpower intensive, and rarely predictive. We improve the accuracy & speed of drone operations by making tracking targets as easy as following a Facebook feed. Member 1 Machine Learning / Software Engineering Member 2 Member 3 Member 4 Product / Strategy VC / Growth Equity AI / Data Science
Drone. DB: A Facebook feed for drone operations Academic Program Linked. In Subject Matter Expert? Team Member 1 Team Member 2 Team Member 3 Team Member 4 MBA + MA Ed 2016 MS CS 2017 MS&E 2016 MBA 2017 Link Yes (Fmr Intelligence Officer) No (UI/UX Design) No (Software Engineering) No (Proj Mgr & Communicator) Product Designer Hacker Hustler Role Experience Solving a Problem that Seemed Impossible - Deployed to Afghanistan w/Army special ops team - Led 15 -mbr team for 14 -hr shifts; used 4 24/7 aircraft to find 54 high value tgs - Example
Mission Model Canvas Template
Example #1: Drone. DB Mission Model Canvas Key Partners - Continued sponsorship by military beneficiary - Video processing/codec providers - Predictive modeling companies - Department of Defense security accreditation agencies Key Activities Value Proposition Buy-In/Support Beneficiaries - Software Engineering - Ingest drone video - Tag/archive tgt activity - Predict future activity - Improve decision quality + speed: allow decisionmakers to quickly distill/understand key events from hundreds of hours of target tracking - Need demand signal from Supported Unit (Army/Navy Special Ops teams) - Primary: Army & Navy Special Operations teams using drones for targeting (specifically intelligence/operations Battle Captains in the team’s operations center) - UI/UX Design - Security Accreditation Expertise Key Resources - Security Clearance - IT Security Accreditation Approval - Provide predictive insight: based on target’s historic activity, predict likely future activity - Reduce manpower burden: remove tedious/manual tasks through automation; more efficiently use existing analysts - Need implementation by Air Force drone operations/intelligence units + IT approvals for their systems Deployment - Secondary: drone pilots/aircrews; drone intelligence analysts - Pilot project with one unit pursuing one threat group - Grow to multiple units pursuing the same threat group (network effects) - Eventually grow to multiple threat groups/geographic areas Mission Budget/Costs Mission Achievement Fixed: - Software design & engineering - Helpdesk/support functions - Improve speed & accuracy of killchain Variable: - Customer acquisition/sales - Widespread adoption & delighted users
Drone. DB: Value Proposition Canvas Gain Creators Products & Services Drone video analysis software Pain Relievers - Use historic target activity to predictively model future activity - Facebook feed-like ease of use Special Operations Teams Gains Easy & useful data access + Predictive modeling = Faster, better decisions Pains - Reduce manual tasks; automate tagging of target activities - Effective UI/UX to distill high volume of information - Information overload - Manual data management - Stressful, high-stakes decisionmaking Customer Jobs Track bad guys
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