December 13, 2021

“Xelevate is proud to announce that we are officially partnering with UAV Coach! Since 2014, UAV Coach has provided online training to over 40,000 Part 107 pilots through practical flight proficiency programs, comprehensive guides, and a growing community of pilots. Their flagship program, ‘Drone Pilot Ground School' is setting the standard for online Part 107 drone pilot license training around the country!

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Where Can American Drone Companies Go To Innovate?

In this episode of the Drone Radio Show, Preston introduces us to the Xelevate UAS Center Of Excellence, and shares how the center can help strengthen American position and presence in the drone industry.

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October 13, 2021

Xelevate, in conjunction with Roots 657 and Master Chef Richard Rosendale performed the first ever ‘proof-of-concept' drone delivery of food in Northern Virginia.

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AUVSI | October 18, 2021

Xelevate – a site designated exclusively to test, train, develop, innovate, and demonstrate unmanned systems – will host it's grand opening on October 20th. The Xelevate team will host an on-site tech-expo meets air show, highlighting technologies for industry leaders in attendance including Department of Defense and national security personnel, as well as local and federal elected officials.

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WTOP News | October 12, 2021

On Thursday morning, Chef Chris Rieloff attached a to-go box with one of Roots 657's signature brisket sandwiches and a side of mac and cheese to the tether of a long-endurance quadcopter and watched as it was flown to a neighboring field and lowered it to the ground from 100 feet in the air.

It was a demonstration of things to come – someday relatively soon.

As federal regulations continue to develop the rules that will govern commerical use of the uncontrolled airspace – below 400 feet – innovators are exploring the opportunities that advances in drone technology offer.

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Loudoun Now | October 7, 2021

On Thursday morning, Chef Chris Rieloff attached a to-go box with one of Roots 657's signature brisket sandwiches and a side of mac and cheese to the tether of a long-endurance quadcopter and watched as it was flown to a neighboring field and lowered it to the ground from 100 feet in the air.

It was a demonstration of things to come – someday relatively soon.

As federal regulations continue to develop the rules that will govern commerical use of the uncontrolled airspace – below 400 feet – innovators are exploring the opportunities that advances in drone technology offer.

Click here to learn more.

Loudoun Times Mirror | October 7, 2021

In what is perhaps a preivew of things to come, Northern Virginia's first commercial food drone delivery was completed Thursday morning, with food from Roots 657 Cafe in Lucketts being delivered to Rust and Feathers, a nearby antiques store.

“We wanted to show this can be done in Northern Virginia because this airspace is one of the most complicated,” said Preston Huntington, Client Relations Manager for Xelevate Solutions. “Xelevate wants to be thought leaders in promoting this safely, and this is a mature model of what it looks like. This is a great example of some of the good things we can do with drones,” he said.

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Ashburn Magazine | October 5, 2021

A Leesburg-based company focused on commercial drone operation and training is teaming up with a popular Loudoun County restaurant to perform what they say is the first ever food delivery by drone in Northern Virginia.

There have been successful drone food delivery experiments in other parts of the country. Xelevate hopes to make the technology a standard part of delivery in the greater DC area, once future rules and regulations for commercial drone operation are in place.

Xelevate is a new company in Loudoun County. They are opening their headquarters and labs, as well as a conference and training facility, in Leesburg later this month. The Roots 657 delivery is part of the grand opening hoopla.

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Washington Business Journal | March 24, 2021

Marcy Eisenberg is looking to bring drone testing to Northern Virginia this fall.

The former president of information technology consulting firm Pathoras Corp. has formed a new company with the aim of providing a hub for innovators in unmanned aerial systems, also known as drones.

Xelevate Solutions Training Center is a new venture with Andrew Biechlin, Eisenberg's husband, co-founder and the company's vice president, to provide facilities for testing and collaboration within the drone industry. The couple also founded Pathoras, which was a 2016 Washington Business Journal Best Places To Work Honoree. It has since sold to Reston firm Bogart Associates of Northern Virginia.

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Washington Business Journal

A new business venture is under contract to acquire land in rural Loudoun County where it aims to establish a training and conference center for those who develop and operate unmanned systems – aerial and otherwise.

The venture, called Xelevate Solutions Training Center, would be located on 66.3 acres – a merger of two adjacent properties, each slightly larger than 30 acres – north of Lucketts. The names of the individuals behind Xelevate have not been released, but their land use attorney, Cooley LLP, recently filed a zoning determination request with Loudoun to ask if the planned use is permitted on those properties.

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