“The best vision is insight.” - Malcolm Forbes
How It Started
The Inter-Connecting Clamp and United Aircraft Technologies came into fruition as a result of a Veteran's years of experience as an aircraft mechanic. Hours spent maintaining and fixing the wiring systems of aircraft by installing and replacing today's outdated clamps, caused him to develop Carpal Tunnel Syndrome due to the constant strain in his hand muscles.
The process of innovating the interconnecting clamp went through many re-designs
after failing to meet certain criteria that our engineers wanted to achieve. Thus, thanks to preliminary assistance from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy New York, UAT was able to redefine the idea into an MVP that proved a design concept.
From The Founders
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” - Wayne Gretzky
We, as the founding team, came together around the story of the ICC's author and his struggles as an aircraft electrician. As we continued our research, we saw how important our mission was not only for the workforce who work daily on assembling and disassembling the standard wiring clamps used today but also for the companies whose rising fuel costs impacts the economy and above all for the general populace and soldiers who use these aircrafts that remain in the air thanks to these wires. This is the passion the team lives with every day because we know it can be better; we know it can improve; we know we can help everyone involved in the process. Therefore, we have taken this mission to inform, educate, and innovate.
History and Accomplishments
UAT continues to shape the way we work today.
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UAT Winner of NASA iTech 2021 Cycle I
UAT one of three winners of the 2021 NASA iTech Cycle I
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UAT Winner of NASA iTech Ignite the Night Aeronautics
United Aircraft Technologies Takes Top Spot at NASA iTech Ignite the Night Aeronautics
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UAT is Awarded US Air Force Contract
Air Force to award $10M in contracts to small businesses to help develop flying cars
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UAT's CEO Recognized by the Albany Business Review as a Woman on the Rise, 2020
Get to know the Albany Business Review's 2020 Women on the Rise
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UAT Receives The Tech Tribune Badge
2020 Best Tech Startups in Troy (New York)
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The Solar Impulse Foundation Label
Smart Interconnecting Clamps Efficient Solution
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US. Army (DEVCOM) Awards UAT an SBIR Phase I Contract
Expeditionary Technology Search (xTechSearch) Dual-Use Technologies applicable to Army modernization priority areas
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Winner of the AFRL Commercialization Academy,
IDEA-NYThe AFRL Commercialization Academy is a Griffiss Institute entrepreneurial education program sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL/RI)
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Winner of MassChallenge Gold Award
MassChallenge Awards over $1M in Cash Prizes to Top Boston and Rhode Island Startups
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UAT Receives Honorable Mention In Tech Briefs Create The Future Design Contest 2019
AEROSPACE & DEFENSE CATEGORY - Augmented Reality Monitoring System for Aircraft Wiring Maintenance
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UAT is Selected as a 2019-Cycle II Semifinalist by NASA iTech
Innovators around the world answered NASA iTech’s call for inventive ideas that could benefit space exploration as well as solve challenges on Earth.
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UAT Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award 2019
The annual TechConnect Defense Innovation Awards select the top 15% leading innovations through an industry-review process. Rankings are based on the potential positive impact the submitted technology will have for the warfighter and national security.
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FuzeHub Awards Manufacturing Grant To UAT In Collaboration With CEG
FuzeHub provides New York State manufacturers with guided access to an extensive network of industry experts, programs and assets to solve productivity, commercialization, research and development issues, and other challenges to growth.
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xTechSearch 2.0 Phase I, II, and III Winner
Phase I, II, and III Winner of the US. Army Expeditionary Technology Search
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Winners of the Berkshire Manufacturing Innovation Challenge
Winners of the Manufacturing Innovation Challenge with focus in the Life Sciences
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Winners of the Veterans in Economic Transition Conference (VETCON) Business Plan Competition
Winners of their third VETCON business plan competition connecting UAT with a vast amount of veteran-owned businesses and services.
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Sikorsky Innovations Entrepreneurial Challenge Award
Gained entry to an extensive network of technical experts, business mentors, strategic team members, potential customers and experienced investors.
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NSF Capital Region I-Corp Site & Node
Developed research-based concepts and used interviews with potential customers to create the business model canvas in order to understand and validate the potential of launching our startup.
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Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Inventors Studio Innovator Award and Startup Founders Award
Engineering innovation, an end-to-end process combining creativity (critical thinking, collaboration and communication), invention, design, and implementation.
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