State-Stage Collaboration Advances U.S. Drone Market and Strengthens Financial Ties with Taiwan in Power and Aerospace
by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian J. McNab
As america works to extend its presence inside the international drone market by collaboration, particular person states have began creating partnerships with overseas governments to be able to advance their very own home tech and aerospace economies.
Within the newest instance of this rising pattern, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt visited Taiwan on an power and aerospace targeted commerce mission on Monday. He met with President Lai Ching-te to debate potential areas of collaboration between Oklahoma and Taiwan in power, vital minerals, and aerospace together with Unmanned Aerial Methods (UAS) and drones. He additionally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Minister of Financial Affairs Jyh-Huei Kuo between Oklahoma and Taiwan.
“This Memorandum of Understanding between Oklahoma and Taiwan will improve commerce and funding alternatives between Oklahoma and Taiwan drone and UAS corporations. Oklahoma is essentially the most enterprise pleasant state within the nation and our power trade gives vital stability and financial alternative around the globe,” mentioned Gov. Stitt. “The Taiwanese folks share Oklahoma’s love of freedom. I sit up for working collectively to extend commerce and investments alternatives in aerospace and power to advance prosperity for the folks of Taiwan and Oklahoma.”
In line with the press launch, Governor Stitt is on a commerce mission in Asia together with stops in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Whereas in Taiwan, he visited with a wide range of corporations curious about bringing funding and jobs to Oklahoma. Governor Stitt highlighted Oklahoma’s power benefit and enterprise pleasant surroundings in discussions with high Taiwanese officers.
Oklahoma has lengthy had a business curiosity within the drone trade, with vast open areas (and airspaces) offering loads of area (and alternative) for UAV builders, researchers, and operators. Oklahoma is house to a department of the federal authorities’s BEYOND program in partnership with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
The official press launch saying the commerce mission is obtainable right here.
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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory surroundings for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the business drone area and is a global speaker and acknowledged determine within the trade. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising and marketing for brand new applied sciences.
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