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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.

ImSAR Wins $24M Contract to Develop Lightweight Radar for Small UAVs

ImSar, LLC, suppliers of digital signal processing, radar, manufacturing, and inertial measurement systems for defense and unmanned applications, has been...

Jun 07, 2012
Corsair’s Training Simulator Helps ScanEagle UAS Reach 600,000 Hours

Insitu recently announced that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system has exceeded 600,000 combat flight hours, maintaining a 99 percent mission-readiness...

Jun 07, 2012
Raytheon Awarded $28M Contract to Update VTOL UAV Ground Control Stations

Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems (RIIS) has been awarded a $28 million contract to update the software on UAV ground...

Jun 07, 2012
MicroStrain Releases Groundbreaking New Lossless Wireless Sensor Networks

MicroStrain’s new LXRS™ “lossless” wireless communication protocol (patent pending) supports scalable networks of high speed sensor nodes without data loss due...

Jun 07, 2012
SPI Corp to Display UAV Thermal PTZ Cameras at Border Management Southwest

SPI Corp is a leading provider of thermal PTZ (thermal pan tilt zoom) solutions to US Military and Border Patrol...

Jun 07, 2012
Drones Used to Assess Storm Damage on Utility Distribution Systems

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has completed tests determining that unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, can be used effectively...

Jun 06, 2012
Cassidian (EADS Group) to Display Tanan VTOL UAS and Tracker Mini-UAS at Eurosatory

EADS and its divisions – Airbus/Airbus Military, Astrium, Cassidian and Eurocopter – will have a major presence at the Eurosatory...

Jun 06, 2012
MND Denies Speculation Concerning Poor UAV Performance

The Ministry of National Defense (MND) yesterday denied media speculation that it would not purchase new locally developed Unmanned Aerial...

Jun 06, 2012
Goodrich to Exhibit Latest Sensors and Composite UAV Components at Eurosatory

Goodrich Corporation is bringing the latest developments from its sensors and actuation businesses to Eurosatory in Paris, France on June...

Jun 06, 2012
MDA to provide UAS training to British Army

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, has announced that it has signed a contract...

Jun 06, 2012
New Video Shows Aerobot Cinestar VTOL UAV in Action

Aerobot has released a new video showing the Cinestar multi-rotor unmanned helicopter in action. According to the Aerobot website, the...

Jun 06, 2012
Supersonic Mini-drone Aims for Jet Speed Record

    Researchers at the University of Colorado are building the smallest supersonic jet engine ever made. Weighing just 22...

Jun 05, 2012
Boeing Demonstrates SATCOM on the Move Between Australia and US

Boeing has successfully demonstrated its SATCOM on the Move (SOTM) product on a live Ka-band satellite network. The demonstration in...

Jun 05, 2012
Military Video Surveillance Market Worth US$8 Billion in 2012

The global military video surveillance systems market will be worth US$8.81 billion this year, as the development of advanced motion-imagery...

Jun 05, 2012
Boeing Phantom Eye UAS Completes First Autonomous Flight

Boeing’s Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system (UAS) completed its first autonomous flight June 1 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center...

Jun 04, 2012
iRobot Receives $12.7 Million Order for Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles

iRobot Corp., a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, has received a $12.7 million order from the U.S. Army Contracting...

Jun 04, 2012
Tritech to Supply Sonar Systems for US Naval AUV Order

Tritech has been awarded a contract to supply German-based Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a leading systems supplier for naval electronics, with...

Jun 04, 2012
Lynntech to Develop Prototype Propulsion and Power System for Future Long-endurance AUVs

ARLINGTON, Va., 30 May 2012. Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) experts at the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington,...

Jun 04, 2012
Norwegian University of Technology and Science purchases REMUS 100 AUV

Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles – AUVs, announces that the...

Jun 04, 2012
U.S Army Orders AeroVironment RQ-11B Raven Small UAS and New Miniature Gimbaled Payloads

AeroVironment, Inc. has received a $15,813,406 firm fixed-price authorization to perform on May 22, 2012 from the United States Army...

Jun 04, 2012
NASA Global Hawk UAV to be used for Hurricane Investigations

NASA will be sending unmanned aircrafts dubbed “severe storm sentinels” above stormy skies, beginning this summer and over the next...

Jun 04, 2012
Surf Life Savers to Monitor sharks & Swimmers with Small UAVs

Technology typically used for military operations could soon be monitoring bathers and sharks off Australian beaches. The project will test...

Jun 04, 2012
BlueView Technologies to be Acquired by Teledyne Technologies

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire BlueView...

Jun 02, 2012
U.S. Army Places $16m Initial Order for AeroVironment UAS’s

AeroVironment Inc. has received a $15.8 million initial order from the United States Army out of a total projected contract...

Jun 01, 2012
NASA to Send UAVs into Stormy Skies

Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed “severe storm sentinels” above...

Jun 01, 2012
NexTech Wins Contract for Compact Energy System for UUV’s

NexTech Materials, Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has received a contract from the Office of Naval Research for...

Jun 01, 2012
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