Cameron, welcome back. How you doing?
Fine. It's great to be here. Thank you.
Doing great. It's, let me tell you, it's great to have you back. Thanks again for giving us the time. We saw some news there this morning for Draganfly. We just talked about it. Let's just dive right in here. We had a great conversation the last time that you were on the show. How are the developments coming along?
Yeah, we're really excited about what we got to announce today. So, you know, in the drone space, there's so much focus today on military, military, military. And the reality is, in the medium to long term, the public safety and the commercial market is actually even much bigger than the military market. And, you know, fortunately, because Draganfly has been around so long, we have three major verticals. We have our industrial slash commercial and agriculture division, we have our public safety, and we have our military. And today, we're really pretty honored and privileged to announce on our public safety side of the business that IACLEA, which is the International Association of Law Enforcement Professionals for campuses, so that's 3,000 universities and campuses around the world, about 85% of which are in the US, have selected and standardized on Draganfly for their training and equipment. So, if we think about everything that's happened over campuses over the last couple years, you know, assassinations at political rallies, roles that drones could have played or are playing in them, to have Draganfly as now the primary provider and trainer, subject matter experts to be able to work with this particular market with all these campuses, it's game-changing for us. It's really a monster. We're really, really privileged.
Yeah, that does seem like a game-changer, and it seems like the right thing to do. And look, I'm just kind of thinking off the cuff here with the World Cup going on, which has been absolutely tremendous. What is the possibility that drones are used for protection at like major sporting events like this, not just campuses?
Yeah, 100%. Well, part of this campus is going to be the major sporting events on those premises, right? And so, but you've got multiple types of... One of the reasons that I think we were selected, well, I can tell you we were selected, is because we don't provide just one type of drone, and we do provide operational support. So, you know, you're going to see tethered drones around stadiums, right? That are providing pervasive surveillance, intelligence, and reconnaissance, you know, for people coming in that might be carrying weapons, for crowd control, for management, for those types of things. You're going to see instant response drones. So, drones in a box, drones as first responders for incidents or active shooter situations that are happening on campuses. You're going to see counter drone, right? So there's drone incursions on campuses today. And so it also includes counter drone capabilities. But it's also community service measures as well. So being able to include the rest of the campus in with what's going on with drones and being able to use them as part of community service for safety walks or for oversight for student activations or things like that. It's much, much more than a drone that's up in the air because of one situation. It's an entire society that lives and operates within a campus. And so the drone applications are almost endless.
Okay, that I mean, I'm just thinking about drone applications right now, and I feel like I could keep going there. It does, in fact, seem endless. Look, with the Trump administration, they've been focusing on quantum, space, and the drone sector pretty much for the entire second term here. You can clearly see lots of investment in those industries. How do you see the drone sector in the near-term future? And then, how does Draganfly fit into this? And then, I guess we can also talk about the long-term vision as well.
Yeah, so certainly investment in drones is going to continue because it's, you know, kind of the cat's out of the bag and there's, you know, broad sociological acceptance of the role of drones and what they'll be able to do. Whether it's from delivery, whether it's from surveillance or first response or disaster recovery or the list goes on, or military defense, counter drone, the whole thing. So the innovation and the investment is going to continue. In fact, JP Morgan about just under a month ago announced that they were going to invest a trillion dollars over the next 10 years into that space. And they've set up an industry forum and initiative of a number of companies and professionals of which we're working to be a part of in order to not just access that, but provide guidance into how they want to best employ it. Now, drones really are the front edge of quantum and AI and autonomy. Right? This is where the rubber meets the road. So if you're in the drone space, you're in the sovereign data, the quantum, the AI, and the autonomy space.
So, all of that investment really ends up funneling down into the functionality of what a drone does. So a drone carries out the function of what all of that AI and quantum, etc., are generating. But it's also the main feeder of information back into that. So nothing collects data better than a drone in the real world. I mean, it's a flying battery that literally we can put it on top of a street corner and in minutes we can tell you what's happening with the underground infrastructure in terms of leaks, we can tell you what's happening with the air quality, we can tell you what's happening with traffic. We can literally tell you the heart rate, the respiratory rate, and the blood pressure of the people on the street. We can tell you the carbon monoxide emissions of the cars going by. Like it's endless. So that's all real-time data that again gets fed back into AI and quantum. So I believe that the investment into the drone space and the bigger autonomy space is really kind of like, you know, we thought 2000 was big for the internet. Well, we saw that the next 20 years was 10 times bigger than we ever thought it was going to be, and I think that's the same kind of spot we're at as it relates to drones.
