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AeroVironment Wins $2.5M U.S Airforce Contract to Supply Digital Wasp AE Small Unmanned Aircraft System

AeroVironment today introduced the Wasp AEâ„¢ small unmanned aircraft system and announced that it has been accepted by the U.S....

May 23, 2012
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...

May 23, 2012
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...

May 22, 2012
FreeWave Technologies To Showcase UAV Wireless Data Radios

  FreeWave Technologies, manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced...

May 22, 2012
Low Cost UAV AutoPilot Launched

3D Robotics has released its AdruPilot Mega 2.0 AutoPilot. Seen at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, the APM2 is...

May 22, 2012
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Market to Reach $7.26bn in 2012

Visiongain’s analysis finds that the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) market will reach a value of $7.26bn in 2012, as UAVs...

May 22, 2012
Unmanned Aircraft with Vertical Takeoff “Flexrotor” Tested

The United States is testing a new unmanned aircraft (UAV) with vertical takeoff and landing “Flexrotor” whose development is commissioned...

May 22, 2012
ITT Exelis Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract to Protect UAV Data

ITT Exelis has been awarded an Air Force Cryptologic Systems Division contract to deliver prototype self-encrypting drives. These secure solid...

May 22, 2012
Australian DSTO is First to Acquire New MicroROV Navigation Technology

VideoRay and its partners announced today that they have shipped the first implementation of VideoRay CoPilot by SeeByte software, on...

May 22, 2012
Elbit Systems wins $160m UAS contract

Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that it was awarded an approximately $160 million contract by a European customer, to supply...

May 22, 2012
Iraq Protects Oil Platforms with U.S. UAVs

    Iraq is buying unmanned drones from the United States to help protect its southern oil platforms as the...

May 21, 2012
New SimMetrics Software from AGI and VT MÄK Brings Real-Time Analysis to Battlefield Simulations

Doing more with less is a prevalent theme in today’s military, especially when it comes to reducing the costs of...

May 21, 2012
KONGSBERG Awarded EUR 28M Software Development Contract

During NATO’s Summit in Chicago, KONGSBERG signed a EUR 28 million contract with Northrop Grumman ISS International Inc for the...

May 21, 2012
Washington Turns to Contractors for ISR Operations

At first, UAVs were owned, operated and serviced by the armed forces. Then, faced with shortages of available equipment and...

May 20, 2012
Raytheon Awarded $85M Contract for Griffon Missiles

Engineers at the Raytheon Co. Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., are moving ahead with a project to deploy a...

May 20, 2012
Israel Fixes & Returns Four IAI Heron UAVs to Turkey

In another possible sign of a thaw in the icy relations between Israel and Turkey, Israel has fixed and returned...

May 19, 2012
UAV Flight Training and Simulation Market Worth $451.9m in 2012

Visiongain’s analysis indicates that the UAV flight training and simulation market will reach a value of $451.9m in 2012, as...

May 18, 2012
Egypt Produces UAV in Cooperation With China

Chairman of the Arab Organization for Industrialization, Hamdy Weheba said that Egypt has started the second phase to produce 12...

May 18, 2012
ESTEIO and SIMEPAR form Partnership for Mapping and Monitoring Using UAVs

ESTEIO Engenharia e Aerolevantamentos S.A. and Instituto Tecnológico SIMEPAR signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement that visualizes the joint action of...

May 17, 2012
Police UAVs: Nearly limitless potential

Article by Doug Wyllie. Original source: Police One Probably the most obvious use for a UAV in law enforcement is for search...

May 17, 2012
AeroVironment Switchblade UAV Pursued by Marine Corps

The Marine Corps is taking steps to procure its first “kamikaze” drone in an effort to provide small units the...

May 17, 2012
Experts Claim Ceramic Engine is Future of Aviation

Aerospace engineering experts Drs Omid Gohardani and Amir S. Gohardani have proposed a novel aerospace propulsion concept for future greener...

May 17, 2012
Hybrid Power for Unmanned Surface Vehicle USVs

Villanova University and Unmanned Ocean Vehicles, Inc., in the USA have been developing the powertrain and harvesting for an unmanned...

May 17, 2012
Aeronautics Orbiter II Mini UAV Wins Finnish UAV Bid

Finland’s Ministry of Defense has selected Israeli company Aeronautics for a 20-year-program to equip, train and support tactical ground forces...

May 17, 2012
UAS Procurement Tops Air Force’s Spending List

The unmanned aerial systems (UAS) market accounted for $5.25 billion of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) budget in 2010,...

May 16, 2012
New Open Payload Architecture Validated by GA-ASI & UK Partners

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance...

May 16, 2012
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