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Contact info

• Eglin AFB, Emerald Coast, Florida

• Phone: Public Affairs, eight-fife-oh eight-eight-tree six-tree-fower-seven

• Email: [niner six] "TW" dot "PA" dot "Office Mail Account" at "US" dot "AF" dot "millones

ACTIVITIES

• Junkyard wars: Hack together machines then complete challenges,

• Air Race: Timed trials and stunts around Pylons like the Red Bull Air Race,

• Field day: ”Pro Day” style exercises, slalom, autocross challenges,

• BATTLE BOTS: Paintball, airsoft,

• Drone-augmented fireteams and small-unit skirmishes,

• A string of paint or water balloon bombs,

• Gladiator-style nets,

• Flying wrecking-balls,

• Heavy-duty hobbyist RC planes, jets, choppers,

• Drone swarm and ground battles, as in Ender’s Game,

• Forecasted outcomes,

• Night ops,

• Night-vision,

• Fluorescent paint paintballs,

• Airsoft rounds,

• Countermeasures,

• Smoke and mirrors,

• Spectrum warfare,

• Hobbyist rocket-drone targeting / shootdown,

• Ground control to Maj Tom,

• Predictive data hackathon on the ground,

• Network security / cyber-to-drone,

• Uplink / downlink with manned craft,

• Psyops: Leaflet dropping, skywriting, banner-towing,

• Cyber air-dropping, like an iphone airdropping the cyberz down from a drone,

• Synchronized droning: Choreographed Vietnam-era football field air-ballets,

• Medieval Knights: Drone jousting, capture the guidon flag, LARPing,

• Spectrum shootout: Electronic warfare one-on-one cowboy duels,

• Intel: Surveillance, mapping, network sniffing, offensive cyber-from-drone,

• Sense and avoid: No visual, possible night ops, fly-by-sense challenges,

• Autonomy: Rat race / mouse maze style obstacle course. No humans,

• Easter egg challenges: Sleeper prizes, contests for the inquisitive drone,

• Science fair demo day: Show off creations, professional networking,

AWARDS

1. PEOPLES’ CHOICE AWARD for best:

• Junkyard creation,

• Paintball,

• Silly-string or other counter-sUAS rotor entanglement,

• Team spirit,

• Mascot,

• Open-source documentation,

• Psy-ops win,

• Major destruction,

• LARPing costumes

2. COMANDANTE’S CUP for best:

• Overall team,

• Pilot,

• Battlefield innovation,

• Shootdown,

• Counter-swarm defense strategy,

• Offensive strategy,

• Cyber flag-captors,

• Data / outcome forecasters,

• Jousting,

• Quidditch team

When???

Coming to a grassy field near you some time in 2024. But near Eglin though.