DARPA Selects Reach for EEI Award to Accelerate Wireless Power for Commercial and Public Sectors
Reach Power (Reach), the leader in Wireless Power-at-a-Distance, announced it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to participate in its Embedded Entrepreneur Initiative (EEI).
Reach Power (Reach) announced today it has been selected as one of five companies to join the Panasonic Accelerator by Electric Works Company, an exclusive innovation program led by Panasonic Corporation and ReGACY Innovation Group Inc.
Reach Awarded OECIF Funding to Advance Wireless Power for Persistent Sensors
Reach announced today that its Persistent Unattended Ground Sensors (PUGS) project, sponsored by Air Force Operational Energy, has been selected for a funding award through the Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF).
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Ret.) Jim Kirk Joins Reach’s Government Advisory Board
Reach has appointed U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Ret.) Jim Kirk, former commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3, to its Government Advisory Board, strengthening its engagement with the Department of Defense.
Reach Completes Phase II of Future Force Energy Campaign with U.S. Air Force, Demonstrating World’s First Wireless Power Relays
Reach successfully completed a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract to develop the world’s first wireless power transfer (WPT) relay nodes, demonstrating their ability to extend power beaming beyond barriers and over longer distances.
Former DIU Energy Portfolio Director Benjamin Richardson Joins Reach’s Government Advisory Board
Reach has appointed Benjamin Richardson, former Director of the Energy Portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), to its Government Advisory Board, where he will help shape the company’s federal strategy and advance the adoption of RF-based wireless power for defense applications.
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) David A. Krumm, Former Commander, Alaska NORAD Region Joins Reach’s Government Advisory Board
Reach has appointed Lieutenant General (Ret.) David A. Krumm, former Commander of the Alaska NORAD Region and Eleventh Air Force, to its Government Advisory Board, where he will help advance the company’s wireless power technology to meet critical public sector energy needs.
Jim Smith, Former Acquisition Executive, United States Special Operations Command Joins Reach’s Government Advisory Board
Reach has appointed Jim Smith, former Acquisition Executive for USSOCOM, to its Government Advisory Board, where he will provide strategic guidance to advance the company’s wireless power beaming solutions for defense and intelligence applications.
Reach Enables Wireless Power Mesh Networking for In-flight Drone Charging
Reach successfully demonstrated a groundbreaking RF-based wireless power transfer system for UAVs, using a mesh network of four transmitters to beam power to a drone in flight, marking a major advancement in scalable, resilient wireless energy distribution.
Reach Establishes Government Advisory Board to Drive Growth in Federal Business
“Reach is pioneering innovative solutions that create ways to move energy without moving mass—a critical capability for our military’s operational success,” said Major General Hutmacher. “I am excited to be Reach’s first advisory board member and I look forward to both helping Reach build a strong board and bring wireless power technology directly to the warfighter.”
Reach Engages with In-Q-Tel to Deliver Wireless Power Capacity
“High-performance, scalable wireless power-at-a-distance is a holy grail for many hard-to-solve defense and intelligence community use cases,” said George Hoyem, EVP, U.S. Investments, IQT. “Reach has demonstrated capabilities that are breaking new ground by enabling wireless power transmission at scale to be both safe and effective.”
MissionLink.Next Selects Reach for its 2023 Cohort
The MissionLink Board received more than 150 nominations and ultimately 60 companies were selected for the 2023 cohort, bringing together top founders and CXOs from across the US in the areas of cyber, artificial intelligence & machine learning, analytics, biotechnology, autonomy, microelectronics, quantum science, space, UAS/drones, 5G, virtual reality, synthetic environments, internet of things and emerging technologies.
Reach to Deliver the First Industrial-Scale Wireless Power Solution
Wireless power-at-a-distance company Reach, whose field-tested, proven technology delivers more point-to-multipoint power over greater distances than any product in the market
Reach Adds Technology Innovator Alan S. Cohen as New Board Member and Expands Executive Team
Reach’s wireless power-at-a-distance does for electric power what Wi-Fi did for data. It unleashes devices from power cords and battery limitations. Reach currently provides their high wattage, point-to-multipoint wireless power solutions to the manufacturing, logistics, retail, and defense industries.
DCVC leads Reach Labs’ $9M Series A to make scalable, far-field wireless power a reality
Nikola Tesla dismissed the idea of using radio waves to transfer electricity 130 years ago. Despite evidence to the contrary, he insisted that radio waves could only move in a straight line, and that they faded too quickly to transmit power (or information).