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.

Predator B UAS Equipped With Automatic Takeoff and Landing Software

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...

Oct 19, 2016
Aeryon SkyRanger sUAS Utilized for Aerial Intelligence During Summer Olympics

Aeryon Labs has announced that the company successfully deployed its small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) solutions during the Summer Olympic...

Oct 18, 2016
NuWaves Engineering Announces New C-Band RF Power Amplifier

NuWaves Engineering, a Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave solutions provider, has announced the upcoming release of the latest offering in...

Oct 18, 2016
Aurora Demonstrates ALIAS Robotic System on Cessna Aircraft

On October 17, Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrated automated flight capabilities as part of the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS)...

Oct 18, 2016
Aeryon Announces Real-Time Video Processing and New EO/IR Payload

Aeryon Labs has announced the introduction of Vector, an integrated onboard computing platform dedicated to real-time video processing. Available on...

Oct 18, 2016
Leonardo Osprey Radar to be used on MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS

Leonardo-Finmeccanica has announced that its Osprey active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been picked to serve as look-out on-board...

Oct 17, 2016
Thales Launches Pathmaster Unmanned Mine Countermeasures System

Thales has announced that it is launching Pathmaster, a fully configurable unmanned mine countermeasures system for naval forces seeking to...

Oct 17, 2016
Applanix Announces POSPac MMS 8 Mobile Mapping Post-Processing Software

  Applanix has announced POSPac MMS 8, the company’s next generation of GNSS-Aided Inertial post-processing software for georeferencing data collected...

Oct 16, 2016
ECA Group Develops Unmanned Mine Countermeasure Simulator

ECA Group has announced that its Naval Simulation teams have developed a functional simulator dedicated to Mine Countermeasure (MCM) operations....

Oct 16, 2016
Endeavor Robotics and Leidos Partner for US Navy EOD Robotic System

Endeavor Robotics and Leidos, Inc. have announced that the two companies have teamed to pursue the upcoming U.S. Navy Advanced...

Oct 16, 2016
Pix4D Launches Hybrid Solutions for Drone Mapping

Drone mapping software developer Pix4D has announced the launch of hybrid solutions that integrate mobile, desktop, and cloud platforms for...

Oct 15, 2016
Drone Aviation to Supply WATT Electric Tethered Drones to US DoD

Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that it has been awarded a...

Oct 15, 2016
BAE Showcases Autonomous Vessels and Control System at Unmanned Warrior

BAE has announced that it will be showcasing its unmanned boat technology and a bespoke transportable command and control system...

Oct 14, 2016
GDU Unveils Advanced Byrd Folding and Modular Consumer Drone

GDU, a consumer drone manufacturer, has announced the launch of the Advanced Byrd, an upgrade to the company’s drone that...

Oct 14, 2016
ROV Used For Nuclear Reactor Decontamination

Diakont, a provider of services and tooling to the nuclear industry, has announced that it has begun to perform underwater...

Oct 13, 2016
Sentient and Insitu to Showcase ViDAR Optical Radar for UAS

Sentient and Insitu have announced that the two companies will demonstrate the ViDAR wide area autonomous detection system on the...

Oct 13, 2016
Northrop Grumman Tests Optical Bar Camera on Global Hawk UAS

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that it has successfully flown an Optical Bar Camera broad-area synoptic sensor on an RQ-4...

Oct 13, 2016
Delair-Tech Acquires Trimble’s Gatewing UAS Business

Trimble has confirmed that Delair-Tech has acquired its Belgium-based Gatewing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) engineering and manufacturing business. Headquartered in...

Oct 11, 2016
microdrones and Delair-Tech Form Strategic Alliances with Trimble

Following the sale of its Gatewing UAS business, Trimble has entered into strategic alliances with Delair-Tech and microdrones of Siegen,...

Oct 11, 2016
New Testing Software Simulates Autonomous Vessel Control

H-Scientific Ltd (HSL), a developer of ship simulation technologies, has announced the release of ShipSim 3 and AUVSim, simulation software...

Oct 07, 2016
senseFly Announces New eBee Plus Mapping Drone

senseFly, a producer of professional mapping drones, has released details of its next-generation fixed-wing UAS for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the eBee Plus,...

Oct 06, 2016
New SWaP-Optimized VME Power Supplies for Unmanned Systems

Aegis Power Systems, Inc. has released new SWaP-optimized VME650-series power supplies to replace previous models, giving VME bus application developers...

Oct 06, 2016
Spirent Develops GPS/GNSS Simulation and Test Solutions for Unmanned Systems

Spirent, a developer of simulation and test solutions for GPS/GNSS satellite-based navigation and positioning in unmanned systems, has partnered with...

Oct 06, 2016
X-ES Launches New Rugged Small Form Factor Embedded System

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) have released their newest Small Form Factor (SFF) rugged embedded system – the XPand6052. This small...

Oct 06, 2016
Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Counter-UAS Technologies

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently took part in the annual U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Black Dart exercise for countering unmanned aerial...

Oct 06, 2016
Thales Tests Unmanned Systems During Royal Navy Exercise

Thales is playing a major role in a large Royal Navy demonstration this week, to determine the feasability of using unmanned...

Oct 05, 2016
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