Team Jefferson
Sponsors
Team Jefferson would not be possible without the contributions from our sponsors. Individuals and companies with a vision and passion to see humanity embark on our next great revolutionary journey in the proliferation of practical robotics understand the pioneering role that the DARPA Grand Challenge plays in this venture. America is revving its engines at the starting line for this challenge that will help catapult our creativity, economy, safety, freedoms, and lifestyle to greater heights. Our sponsors are undeniably the founding fathers for this next wave of prosperity for America.
Eventually every man, woman, and child on the planet will be connected to the network. So will virtually everything with a digital or electrical heartbeat — from mobile phones to automobiles, thermostats to razor blades with RFID tags on them. The resulting network traffic will require highly scalable, reliable systems, from Sun. Find Sun across the globe and on NASDAQ: SUNW.
The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science educates engineering and technology leaders through innovative academic programming and experiential learning opportunities such as Team Jefferson and the DARPA challenge. The Engineering School provided financial sponsorship for the team’s involvement in this competition.
http://www.northropgrumman.com/
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.
www.bdmetrics.com (now threestage.com)
BDMetrics is the developer of You-Based® personalization technology for the tradeshow industry. The technology finds all relevant people, products, session and events that relate to each unique attendee and exhibitor weeks before the show ever begins. This personalization technology customizes the show experience around the unique needs of each individual. The result is more attendees justifying attending events, more exhibitors exhibiting at events and high customer satisfaction. BDMetrics partners with leading tradeshow owners/association to redefine and reinforce the value (ROI ) their customers receive from attending or exhibiting at their tradeshow and extend the relationship with their customers 365 days a year.
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TDF is a specialized venture capital fund, focused on seed, early stage and select later stage investments in communications. The investment team at TDF brings over 60 years of operational and investing experience from previous assignments at AT&T Ventures, JPMorgan Capital, NEA, Spectrum Equity, Crosspoint Ventures, AT&T, Bell Labs, Nextel, and McCaw. TDF is a venture capital firm with $50M under management in two funds for preferred equity investments between $500k and $2.5M.
www.sick.com
SICK is one of the world’s leading producers of sensors and sensor solutions for industrial applications. SICK is a technology and market leader in both factory and process automation.
Assured Technologies
Assured Technologies, Inc. helps organizations architect and develop high-assurance software platforms and infrastructure atop of which they may deploy their applications more dependably and rapidly. Assured Technologies has offered both financial and advanced software consulting support to Team Jefferson.
Wowwee Ltd. is a privately-owned, Hong Kong based company with a global sales and distribution network. The Company is the recognized leader in the manufacturing of innovative and award winning hi-tech consumer robotic and entertainment products, such as Robosapien ™, Roboraptor ™, FlyTech ™ Dragonfly, Roboquad ™, Robopanda ™ and Wowwee Alive ™ Elvis (circle R). For more information and to see the latest Wowwee products please visit www.wowwee.com.
connect. communicate. control.
Comtrol is a worldwide leader in device connectivity, industrial Ethernet gateways, and intelligent embedded data communications. Comtrol provides connectivity for PC or PLC platforms and can be found in a range of applications. Comtrol’s flagship products are the DeviceMaster® line of serial device servers and the RocketPort® family of multi-port serial communication products. Comtrol has 25-years experience in helping businesses network-enable devices.
http://www.bodine-electric.com/
In 1905, two years after the Wright brothers powered flight, the Bodine brothers produced their first electric motor for a dental drill manufacturer. Since then, Bodine products have earned their reputation as the standard for performance where reliability and dependability are essential.
