Metal Raptor

Metal Raptor, LLC is a United States-based technology company developing an artificial intelligence system for real-time drone tracking and airspace management. According to its official website, the company is "building an AI system to track millions of Drones entering our airspace," noting that roughly 3 million drones fly today and over 5 million are expected within a few years. Metal Raptor frames real-time visibility into all drone flights as "of paramount importance for National Security and Next Generation Air Traffic Control." Its stated mission is to "Track Drones, Enhance National Security & Enable Autonomous Flights." The company's core technical approach is cellular drone tracking. Rather than relying solely on ADS-B transponders, Metal Raptor locates and tracks drones, balloons and sport aircraft through the cellular network. The company argues that one of the biggest challenges to scalable airspace management in Class G airspace is the invisible nature of non-ADS-B aircraft, and that because the majority of delivery drones use cellular for navigation and almost all non-ADS-B fliers carry a cell phone on board, cellular signals can be used to identify their location and movements. Historical drone behavior is fed into the company's machine learning algorithms to predict future flight paths, which Metal Raptor says is imperative for identifying rogue drones and providing collision avoidance for commercial drone operations. Metal Raptor's focus areas include cellular drone tracking, drones, cargo drones and flying cars, AI-predicted flight paths, and collision avoidance. The company states that it holds 45 patents with 3 pending. Its leadership and advisor team includes Founder & CEO Lee Priest, who served in executive positions in the cellular and wireless businesses at AT&T and Sprint, has three successful exits from private equity and venture backed companies, and brings 10 years of drone experience; he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an engineering degree from Georgia Tech. The team also includes Senior Advisor Jim Wolbarsht, Founding Engineer Akshata Patil, AI & Machine Learning Specialist Thomas Gardos, Wireless Carrier Systems Expert Mike Griffin, and Government & Operational Expert Marty Strong. Metal Raptor is a privately held company. Its official website is metalraptor.ai, and it maintains a Wikidata entity (Q137431385). The company positions itself at the intersection of cellular network infrastructure, AI/machine learning, and airspace safety, targeting both government/national security applications and the emerging commercial drone and advanced air mobility economy.

Metal Raptor, LLC is a privately held U.S. technology company focused on drone tracking and airspace management. Public information about the company comes primarily from its official website and a Wikidata entity (Q137431385). The company was founded by Lee Priest, who serves as Founder & CEO. Priest previously held executive positions in the cellular and wireless businesses at AT&T and Sprint, has completed three successful exits from private equity and venture backed companies, and brings 10 years of drone experience; he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an engineering degree from Georgia Tech. Metal Raptor's stated purpose is to build an AI system capable of tracking millions of drones entering airspace. The company cites that approximately 3 million drones fly today and over 5 million are expected within a few years, and argues that real-time visibility into all drone flights is of paramount importance for national security and next-generation air traffic control. Its mission statement is to "Track Drones, Enhance National Security & Enable Autonomous Flights." The company's technical approach centers on cellular drone tracking. Metal Raptor notes that one of the biggest challenges to scalable airspace management in Class G airspace is the invisible nature of non-ADS-B aircraft. It addresses this by locating and tracking drones, balloons and sport aircraft via the cellular network. The company reasons that the majority of delivery drones use cellular for navigation and that almost all non-ADS-B fliers have a cell phone on board, allowing their location and movements to be identified. Historical drone behavior is fed into Metal Raptor's machine learning algorithms to predict future flight paths, which the company describes as imperative for identifying rogue drones and providing collision avoidance for commercial drone operations. Metal Raptor states that it holds 45 patents with 3 pending. Its focus areas include cellular drone tracking, drones, cargo drones and flying cars, AI-predicted flight paths, and collision avoidance. The company has assembled a leadership and advisor team with backgrounds in wireless carriers, national security, aerospace engineering, AI/machine learning, and military operations. Notable team members include Senior Advisor Jim Wolbarsht, who spent over 30 years at DEFCON connecting business, technology and government, led development of Technology Policy for the Executive Office of the President in The White House, served on the Director's External Review Team at the U.S. National Security Agency, and chaired the Advisory Group for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Founding Engineer Akshata Patil, who develops machine learning models for Air Traffic Planning Systems and GNSS and previously developed sensor fusion systems for autonomous navigation, holding an Aerospace Engineering degree from Florida Institute of Technology and a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford; AI & Machine Learning Specialist Thomas Gardos, a 30-year Intel veteran and current Professor of AI at Boston University who led a deep learning computer vision and computational photography R&D team at Intel and holds a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech; Wireless Carrier Systems Expert Mike Griffin, who previously worked with Lee Priest for over 10 years and is an experienced CFO & CIO with several private equity exits and extensive experience interfacing with wireless carrier information systems; and Government & Operational Expert Marty Strong, a decorated retired Navy SEAL Officer who served 20 years in that elite unit, is former CEO of Linxx Global Solutions and current CEO of Legacy Care. As of the available public information, Metal Raptor remains a private company. No specific founding year, headquarters location, funding rounds, or customer contracts are disclosed in the supplied evidence.

AI-powered cellular drone tracking for national security and next-generation air traffic control

• Cellular Drone Tracking

• AI Predicted Flight Paths

• Collision Avoidance

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