Friday, April 14, 2023

XPrize Dangles $11M Prize For Wildfire Technology

Marina Del Rey-based organization XPrize is getting set to launch a new prize, XPrize Wildfire, aimed at helping to tackle the increase in destructive wildfires. According to the organization, it is offering up an $11M, multi-year competition wich will aim to spur innovation of wildfire detetion and rapid response technologies, which it says will end destructive wildfires. The group says that "we need new firefighting solutions, supported by autonomous technologies, that can rapidly detetc wildfires and help combat them quickly and at scale." The prize is being funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Pacific Gas & Electric, along with Minderoo Foundation, Lockheed Martin, and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.