Released: February 17, 2022
(WASHINGTON, DC – February 17, 2022) The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) has entered into a strategic partnership with Xelevate LLC, based in Loudoun County, VA, as part of an ongoing campaign to help small to large businesses with innovative technologies succeed through collaborations with federal laboratories.
Xelevate LLC is an Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence testing facility located near Washington, D.C. Xelevate signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the FLC on February 16, 2022.
Under the agreement, the FLC and Xelevate will jointly encourage partnerships between federal laboratories and industry, especially small businesses, to help move technologies out of the lab and into the marketplace – a vital process known as technology transfer. These public-private partnerships will support new innovations, leading to job creation and economic benefits.
The FLC and Xelevate will work together to promote and participate in mutually beneficial activities such as joint meetings, sponsorships, and special events to connect federal labs with entrepreneurs and small businesses and spur economic development in the UAS space.
“At Xelevate, we are having unmanned systems stakeholders (businesses, government agencies, academia, etc.) testing & developing, demonstrating, training, innovating, collaborating, and holding conferences and symposiums. We continually see clients looking for additional ways to boost their competitive edge, which includes incorporating unique technological capabilities. Having a strategic partnership with FLC not only further increases the opportunities for technology transfer, it also provides more visibility for unmanned systems stakeholders to use technologies in new, innovative ways not explored before in the emerging world of unmanned systems, ultimately pushing cutting edge technology further into the next- and needed- horizon,” said Marcy Eisenberg, Co-Founder and President of Xelevate.
“Unmanned aerial systems represent a rapidly growing technology sector with tremendous potential for federal labs and their industry partners,” said Paul Zielinski, Executive Director of the FLC. “This collaboration with Xelevate will help facilitate more public-private partnerships focused on UAS technologies, which will create jobs and drive further expansion of that market.”
Learn more about the FLC’s organizational partners here. Groups interested in working with federal laboratories should contact the FLC to learn more at [email protected].
About the FLC
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) is a formally chartered, nationwide network of more than 300 federal laboratories, agencies, and research centers that foster commercialization best practice strategies and opportunities for accelerating federal technologies from out of the labs and into the marketplace. To learn more, visit www.federallabs.org.
About Xelevate
Xevelate is an Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence and is the only Drone/Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) testing facility near the center of U.S. government, Washington, D.C. Xelevate seeks to provide safe and secure drone/Unmanned Aerial Systems engagement, innovation, and technological advancement by working with industry, commercial entities, government agencies, local communities, and academia. To learn more, visit https://xelevateus.com/
Media contact: Carolina Olivieri, FLC Marketing Director [email protected]
Originally published at https://federallabs.org/about/media/flc-press-releases/federal-laboratory-consortium-enters-into-partnership-with-drone-testing-facility-xelevate,-llc
