DRI’ S KNOWLEDGE FUND PORTFOLIO
Nevada’ s Knowledge Fund was created in 2011 to spur research, innovation and commercialization in Nevada. In 2015, DRI received support for four unique projects.
Applied Innovation Center
• A unique team of scientists and engineers creating a new era of weather intelligence, solving the world’ s toughest data problems, and translating innovative scientific ideas into realworld solutions.
• AIC staff unveiled a cutting-edge weather intelligence and numerical decision platform( WINDS) at TechCrunch Disrupt in September, 2015 in San Francisco.
WaterStart
( formerly the Nevada Center of Excellence in Water)
• A cluster of global leaders in the implementation of water innovation. Providing channels for innovation for various stakeholders and water resource managers including technology companies, management agencies and policy makers.
• Partnered with the Nevada Governor’ s Office of Economic Development on three international trade missions to attract more than a dozen water technology companies to Nevada in 2015.
U N M A N N E D A E R I A L S Y S T E M S I N N O V A T I O N
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Unmanned Cloud Seeding Aircraft
• Working with Drone America and AviSight to design, develop and test unmanned aircraft systems focused on increasing winter precipitation and snowpack depths through aerial cloud-seeding applications.
• Project focuses on reducing risks, increasing cloud seeding efficiencies and helping alleviate ongoing drought impacts.
UAS applications for wildland fire fighting
• Providing eyes in the sky for wildland firefighting crews and fire management agencies.
• Partnered with NASA’ s Applied Science Program in 2015 to develop UAS as geospatial intelligence tools to improve the safety and effectiveness of fire management, and forecast fire and smoke movement.