Chad Sweet is the co-founder and CEO of ModalAI®, a Blue UAS Framework manufacturer of autonomous autopilots for drones and ground robots. Sweet is highly experienced in robotics R&D, and during his 20 years at Qualcomm, led efforts in computer vision and wireless communications with 15 patents granted. He was responsible for groundbreaking projects such as the Snapdragon Flight, which is powering NASA’s Ingenuity, the first drone to fly on Mars. Sweet is committed to advancing the U.S. drone industry by providing innovators with ModalAI’s open robot and drone perception and communications systems manufactured in the U.S.A.