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.

VIRES Aeronautics Raises $1M to Advance Development of Innovative Aircraft Wing Design

VIRES Aeronautics, developers of a revolutionary airplane wing design, has announced a $1 million Series AA round of financing. The...

Mar 03, 2014
Northrop Grumman Australia Acquires Qantas Defence Services

Northrop Grumman Australia Pty Limited has completed the acquisition of Qantas Defence Services Pty Limited, now called Northrop Grumman Integrated...

Mar 03, 2014
Orbital Designs UAV Propulsion System for Insitu

Orbital has announced that it has successfully completed the design phase of its design, development and validation program for the...

Feb 28, 2014
Sikorsky’s Matrix Technology Program Launches Phase 2 of Flight Test Activities

Sikorsky Aircraft’s Matrix™ Technology autonomy research program has progressed to the second phase of flight test activities with the installation...

Feb 27, 2014
Teledyne Gavia Deliver AUVs to Polish Armed Forces

Teledyne Gavia has completed a contract with the Armament Department of the Polish Ministry of Defence for the delivery of...

Feb 26, 2014
New Profile for San Francisco Circuits: PCB Fabrication & Assembly for Unmanned Vehicles

San Francisco Circuits, an industry leader in PCB fabrication and assembly for unmanned vehicles, has a new profile on Unmanned...

Feb 25, 2014
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates JAGM Dual-mode Guidance Section

Lockheed Martin recently demonstrated the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) dual-mode guidance section engaging a laser-designated moving target during an internally...

Feb 25, 2014
SimActive’s UAV Software Selected by Korean Firm DongWon

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, has announced that Korean firm DongWon Survey Consultants Co., Ltd has purchased...

Feb 24, 2014
Clearpath Robotics Demonstrates UGV Gesture-Control Technology

Kitchener based companies and University of Waterloo startups, Thalmic Labs and Clearpath Robotics have joined forces to prove gesture controlled...

Feb 21, 2014
Northrop Grumman’s Common Imagery Processor Deploys to Support Global Hawk Block 40

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Common Imagery Processor (CIP) has taken another important step in supporting the Global Hawk Block 40 Unmanned...

Feb 21, 2014
Singapore-Israel Cooperation Leads to World’s First Civilian Fuel Cell UAV

Horizon Energy Systems of Singapore has produced an ultra-light fuel cell power system that has led to a new flight...

Feb 21, 2014
Lockheed Martin to Conduct Autonomous Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition Experiment

Lockheed Martin has received a contract from the U.S. Army Robotics Technology Consortium to conduct a fully autonomous reconnaissance, surveillance...

Feb 19, 2014
NjordWorks Announces Debut of Pioneer Small Unmanned Boat

NjordWorks Inc., a manufacturer of small unmanned vehicles, has announced the debut of the Pioneer small unmanned boat for civil...

Feb 18, 2014
Hexagon acquires Multicopter System Manufacturer Aibotix

Hexagon, leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation solutions, has acquired Aibotix, a manufacturer of intelligent multicopter systems for...

Feb 18, 2014
Topcon Announce Availability of SIRIUS PRO Unmanned Aerial Positioning System

Topcon Positioning Group has announced the release and availability in Europe of the Topcon SIRIUS PRO powered by MAVinci, an...

Feb 18, 2014
CRP USA rethinks Additive Manufacturing with Windform materials

Creating a prototype is always a challenge, but CRP USA has greatly increased the capabilities of 3D Printing and Additive...

Feb 16, 2014
ARCA Develops High Performance UAV for Stratospheric Flights

ARCA, a Romanian developer of space vehicles, has announced that it is developing a high performance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)....

Feb 14, 2014
Insitu Updates ICOMC2 Common Command and Control System for UAS

Insitu has announced the 2.0 release of ICOMC2, the company’s innovative, small-footprint common command and control system. Since its introduction...

Feb 14, 2014
Second MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter Completes First Flight

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman Corporation have successfully flown a second MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the first...

Feb 14, 2014
U.S. Air Force Award Navigation System Contract to Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force for purchase and sustainment of its embedded...

Feb 14, 2014
UAV Factory Announce Electronic Fuel Injection Upgrade for Penguin B

UAV Factory has released an EFI engine upgrade for the Penguin B UAV platform. The upgrade includes addition of a temperature...

Feb 13, 2014
DARPA’s ARES Program Aims to Provide Front-Line Units With VTOL Capabilities

U.S. military experience has shown that rugged terrain and threats such as ambushes and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) can make...

Feb 12, 2014
Italian Navy Selects Schiebel Camcopter S-100 UAS

The Italian Navy has selected the CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS (Unmanned Air System) to provide support for its fleet, making it...

Feb 12, 2014
IAI Reveals Super Heron Heavy Fuel Unmanned Aircraft

Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) today revealed its new Super Heron heavy fuel Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) during a special ceremony...

Feb 11, 2014
SeeByte Launch Sonar Mosaic Tool for ROVs

SeeByte, the global leader in creating smart software for unmanned maritime systems, has announced the launch of a new Multibeam...

Feb 11, 2014
Sensors Unlimited Introduce Mil-Rugged, High Resolution, Extended Sensitivity Shortwave Infrared Camera

UTC Aerospace Systems has introduced the newest high definition (HD) camera in its Sensors Unlimited MiniSWIR™ product line: the GA1280JSX....

Feb 11, 2014
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.