Monthly Round-up: May 2012
News, articles and features published:
in May 2012
World Surveillance Group Successfully Completes Payload Testing of Argus One UAV
World Surveillance Group Inc., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”) and related technologies, announced today that the Company…
Hood Technology UAV Imaging Systems to be Used by Iraqi Navy
The UAV imaging systems from Hood Technology will be utilized by the Iraqi Navy for monitoring oil platforms beyond the…
Raytheon Unveils Prototype ISR System to Canadian Army
Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, recently unveiled its Light Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance Surveillance System…
Northrop Grumman & L-3 MAS Join Forces on Unmanned System for Canadian Security
Northrop Grumman Corporation and L-3 MAS announced plans today to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global…
New Piezoelectric Accelerometer Technologies for UAV Ground Vibration Testing
Kistler has announced availability of its piezoelectric accelerometer technologies for cost-effective, high-accuracy support of aircraft, helicopter, rotorcraft, missile, satellite and…
Cargo Hookup Completed with K-MAX Unmanned Cargo Helicopter
Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 2, the “Night Owls,” made history earlier this week when they completed the first “hot…
NexTech Awarded ONR Contract to Develop UUV Energy System
NexTech Materials, Ltd. has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for a Future Naval Capability (FNC) project…
Engineers Develop Cheap Onboard Tracking System For UAVs
The popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs has exploded in just a few years. That’s the result of smaller,…
NATO Forces Procure Global Hawk Block 40 UAV
Global Hawk Block 40(RQ-4) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has been procured along with four small vehicles by…
Drone Lobbying Ramps up Among Industry Manufacturers
By Andrea Stone, Huffington Post It may be years before unmanned aircraft are common in the sky, but lobbyists for the…
FCC Explores Emergency Aerial Communications Using UAVs
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to explore the use of Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture…
Bluefin AUVs to be compatible with SeeByte SeeTrack through new plug-in
Bluefin Robotics, the leading provider of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) solutions for US Navy Programs of Record and SeeByte, the…
AeroVironment to Deploy Small UAS for Federal Communications Commission Post-Disaster Communications Demonstration
AeroVironment today announced it will employ its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to demonstrate aerial communications capabilities for the Federal…
Orbital to supply FlexDI engines for use in AAI UAS
Orbital is pleased to announce that it has been contracted to supply heavy fuel engines for use in AAI Unmanned…
ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System Exceeds 600,000 Flight Hours
Insitu announced today that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has exceeded 600,000 combat flight hours, maintaining a 99 percent mission-readiness…
Deployment of Lockheed Martin Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) UGV May Be Extended
The original three-month Afghan tour of four Lockheed Martin Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicles might be extended…
UAV Imaging System Produces 3D Models of Historical Monuments
University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained…
RASF Introduces IAI Heron 1 UAV
Singapore’s Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen officiated at a ceremony to inaugurate the Heron 1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle…
Commercial UAV Launched by BlueSky for Aerial Surveys
Aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast response aerial survey service using state of the art unmanned aerial vehicles…
Aerospherical Systems Announces New Spherical Aircraft
Aerospherical Systems has announced an aircraft design which is a perfect sphere. The flying orb is called an Aerosphere™. Until…
AeroVironment Wins $5.1m Order for Switchblade UAS
AeroVironment, Inc. announced it received a contract modification effective March 20, 2012 from the U.S. Army Close Combat Weapons Systems…
Zala Aero unveils UAV upgrade
Zala Aero has launched the latest version of its Zala 421-16 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a focus on civil…
SPI Corp Unveils Next Generation Multisensor Thermal PTZ Gimbal
SPI Corp is a long time distributor and manufacturer of thermal imager systems in the United States. They specialize in…
AeroVironment Wins $2.5M U.S Airforce Contract to Supply Digital Wasp AE Small Unmanned Aircraft System
AeroVironment today introduced the Wasp AE™ small unmanned aircraft system and announced that it has been accepted by the U.S….
Autonomous Fish Shoal Can Sense Pollution
There is something unnatural lurking in the waters of the port of Gijon, Spain, and researchers are tracking its every…
Drone Program Aims To ‘Accelerate’ Use Of Unmanned Aircraft By Police
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a program to “facilitate and accelerate the adoption” of small, unmanned drones by…
Advancing Unmanned Systems Through Strategic Collaboration
UST works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive unmanned systems capabilities forward.
