Unmanned Systems News & Articles

The latest unmanned systems news for UAV, UAS, UGV, USV, UUV, drones and robotics. Articles on product launches and technological advances in unmanned and autonomous design, research and manufacture.

ASV Global Research Project Trials Integrated AUV-ASV

ASV Global has announced that it is leading a collaborative research project called Autonomous Surface and Sub-surface Survey System (ASSSS),...

Jun 19, 2017
uAvionix Develops Low-Altitude Dual Band ADS-B Receiver

uAvionix Corporation has introduced PingStation™ – an all-weather, networkable ADS-B receiver for low and high altitude aircraft surveillance. The robust...

Jun 19, 2017
Simlat Delivers UAS Simulation Lab to Drexel University

Simlat has announced that it has delivered a Full Crew solution for UAS (unmanned aircraft system) training and simulation to...

Jun 19, 2017
New Commercial Drone Solution Developed for Industry

Identified Technologies has announced an alliance with DJI to provide a fully managed commercial drone solution to its Fortune 500...

Jun 19, 2017
Leonardo Announces New Aerial Target Drone

Leonardo has announced the introduction of its new aerial target drone at the 2017 Paris Air Show. Based on the...

Jun 18, 2017
Wireless Radios Enable Long Range Drone Applications for Oil & Gas

Silvus Technologies has announced that its StreamCaster series of MN-MIMO radios has been selected by SkyX, a designer and manufacturer...

Jun 18, 2017
Z3 Technology Announces Dual Camera Full HD Video Encoder

Z3 Technology, a provider of video encoding systems, has announced the release of a video encoder system designed to support...

Jun 15, 2017
KDE Direct Supports FAA’s Know Before You Fly

KDE Direct has announced its support of the FAA’s Know Before You Fly campaign. “KDE Direct is pleased to support...

Jun 15, 2017
Boeing and Huntington Ingalls to Develop UUVs for U.S. Navy

Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries have announced that the two firms are teaming on the design and production of Unmanned...

Jun 14, 2017
Protonex Fuel Cell System Selected for New Hydrogen-Powered UAS

Ballard Power Systems has announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has received an initial order for its fuel cell propulsion...

Jun 14, 2017
BNC Scientific Unveils New Radiation Detecting UAV

BNC Scientific has announced the addition of a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) Radiation Detection solution to the company’s suite of...

Jun 14, 2017
Australian Defence Force Selects AeroVironment Wasp AE SUAS

AeroVironment has announced that its Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft system has been selected by the Australian Defence Force (ADF)....

Jun 13, 2017
RaptorUAS Unveils Endurance Hybrid VTOL UAS

RaptorUAS, a developer of high performance unmanned aerial systems (UAS), has announced that it has completed tests for the conversion...

Jun 12, 2017
BAE Systems to Develop Multifunctional UAS Payloads for DARPA

BAE Systems has announced that it has recently been awarded two contracts from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency),...

Jun 11, 2017
NTT DATA Announces Unmanned Traffic Management Software Package

NTT DATA Corporation has announced the forthcoming launch of its airpalette UTM software package, which consists of an FOS (Flight...

Jun 11, 2017
U.S. Navy Tests New Unmanned Mine Detection System

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has announced that, during a recent technology demonstration at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton,...

Jun 10, 2017
Commercial Drone Completes 30-Mile BVLOS Flight via 3G

Delair-Tech and electrical services company RTE have announced that they have set a new distance record by flying a civilian...

Jun 09, 2017
Long-Endurance USV Operated via Satellite Link

ASV Global has announced that its long-endurance autonomous surface vessel Thomas has embarked on a mission off Scotland out to...

Jun 08, 2017
Tersus GNSS Develops Advanced Multi-Constellation Inertial Navigation System

Tersus GNSS, a developer of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies, has announced its new INS-T-306 GNSS-Aided Inertial Navigation System (INS)....

Jun 08, 2017
Wirth Research Unveils New VTOL Hydrogen-Powered UAS

Wirth Research has announced the release of more details and the first images of its new tilt rotor, Vertical Take...

Jun 08, 2017
EMCORE Introduces Fiber Optic Gyro-Based Micro Inertial Navigation System

EMCORE Corporation, a provider of Mixed-Signal Optics products, has introduced a new Micro Inertial Navigation system (MINAV), the first product in...

Jun 08, 2017
SkyX Unveils New Drone Charging Stations

SkyX, a developer of long-range unmanned aerial monitoring technologies, has announced the successful delivery and installation of its first production...

Jun 08, 2017
Kraken to Provide AquaPix Sonar for AUVs

Kraken Sonar Inc. has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Kraken Sonar Systems Inc., has been awarded a repeat contract valued...

Jun 07, 2017
Inertial Labs Delivers 1,000th IMU-P MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit

Inertial Labs has announced that it has delivered its 1,000th IMU-P Tactical Grade Inertial Measurement Unit. Since the IMU-P was...

Jun 07, 2017
NASA and Partners Test Next Phase of UAS Traffic Management System

The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) has announced that, along with its NASA partners, it has flown five different...

Jun 07, 2017
Automated Object Detection Software to be Deployed on Wasp AE sUAS

Sentient Vision Systems has announced that its Kestrel automated object detection software will be deployed by the Australian Defence Force...

Jun 06, 2017
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