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Focusing on the "International" in AUVSI — Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International, last week we were delighted to host our partners at the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC) at AUVSI HQ to discuss ways to deepen our collaboration for our shared members & to leverage our collective strengths to expand the UxS industry. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 I was also honored to take part in a great discussion on Drones in Defense at Spotlight Latvia, hosted by the Latvian American Chamber of Commerce, along with Latvian UxS leaders Konstantins Krivovs, PMP of Edge Autonomy, Janis Bergs, & Edgars Gauručs, moderated by George Straubs. Also pleased to meet with Latvian Minister of Economics, Viktor Valainis, to discuss opportunities to bring U.S., Latvian, and allied UxS industry leaders together to explore cooperation & partnerships. 🇺🇸🇱🇻 We look forward to hosting delegations from Ukraine, Latvia, and other allied democracies, including Taiwan 🇹🇼, Australia 🇦🇺, Spain 🇪🇸, South Korea 🇰🇷, Israel 🇮🇱, Germany 🇩🇪, & more at future events like AUVSI Defense next week in DC, XPONENTIAL Europe next March in Düsseldorf, Germany, & XPONENTIAL Show in Detroit next May. Our democratic allies and partners are essential to building scale, resilience, and a shared technological advantage. If our rivals can coordinate to undermine democracy, we must coordinate to defend it. Together, we must build an industrial and operational base that spans the American system and of our trusted allies – an Uncrewed Arsenal for Democracies. Nadiia Khomaziuk Iryna Chaika Alex Slusarenko Dmytro Filonenko Katrina Zarina Arturs Beiers Laura Štrovalde Ieva Jagere I EMBA Wesley Morrison Adriana Rivera, MA Grant B. Lori Propst Max Rosen Kimberly Peicker Shannon Walker Keely Griffith Alex Mann Philip Trambley Casie Ocaña Heather Lee Landers Scott Shtofman Mason Sisk Malte Seifert - MBA Special thanks to Guntars Vicmanis, a dedicated American public servant, for organizing our efforts with Spotlight Lativa and working hard during the unfortunate government shutdown. 🇺🇸💪